| dive | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. dive, honkytonk | a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall. |
| ~ cabaret, night club, nightclub, nightspot, club | a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink.; "don't expect a good meal at a cabaret"; "the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night"; "he played the drums at a jazz club" |
| n. (act) | 2. dive, diving | a headlong plunge into water. |
| ~ swim, swimming | the act of swimming.; "it was the swimming they enjoyed most"; "they took a short swim in the pool" |
| ~ belly flop, belly flopper, belly whop, belly whopper | a dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact with the water. |
| ~ cliff diving | diving into the water from a steep overhanging cliff. |
| ~ flip | a dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water. |
| ~ full gainer, gainer | a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board. |
| ~ half gainer | a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward and up to complete a half backward somersault and enters the water facing the diving board. |
| ~ jackknife | a dive in which the diver bends to touch the ankles before straightening out. |
| ~ swallow dive, swan dive | a dive in which the diver arches the back with arms outstretched before entering the water. |
| n. (act) | 3. dive, nose dive, nosedive | a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft. |
| ~ descent | the act of changing your location in a downward direction. |
| ~ power dive | a dive of an airplane that is accelerated both by gravity and by the power of the engine. |
| v. (motion) | 4. dive, plunge, plunk | drop steeply.; "the stock market plunged" |
| ~ power-dive | make a power dive.; "The airplane power-dived" |
| ~ nosedive | plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft. |
| ~ duck | submerge or plunge suddenly. |
| ~ crash-dive | descend steeply and rapidly. |
| ~ chute, parachute, jump | jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute. |
| ~ come down, descend, go down, fall | move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" |
| ~ dump, plunge | fall abruptly.; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" |
| v. (motion) | 5. dive | plunge into water.; "I was afraid to dive from the board into the pool" |
| ~ aquatics, water sport | sports that involve bodies of water. |
| ~ belly-flop | dive so that one hits the water with one's belly. |
| ~ jackknife | dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife. |
| ~ submerge, submerse | sink below the surface; go under or as if under water. |
| v. (motion) | 6. dive | swim under water.; "the children enjoyed diving and looking for shells" |
| ~ swim | travel through water.; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank" |
| ~ skin-dive | swim underwater with no breathing apparatus other than a snorkel. |
| ~ snorkel | dive with a snorkel. |
| dove | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. dove | any of numerous small pigeons. |
| ~ pigeon | wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs. |
| ~ turtledove | any of several Old World wild doves. |
| ~ australian turtledove, stictopelia cuneata, turtledove | small Australian dove. |
| ~ mourning dove, zenaidura macroura | wild dove of the United States having a mournful call. |
| n. (person) | 2. dove, peacenik | someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations. |
| ~ disarmer, pacificist, pacifist | someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes. |
| n. (object) | 3. columba, dove | a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Caelum. |
| ~ constellation | a configuration of stars as seen from the earth. |
| n. (food) | 4. dove, squab | flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled. |
| ~ domestic pigeon | domesticated pigeon raised for sport or food. |
| ~ poultry | flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food. |
| n. (communication) | 5. dove | an emblem of peace. |
| ~ allegory, emblem | a visible symbol representing an abstract idea. |
| jump | | |
| n. (event) | 1. jump, leap | a sudden and decisive increase.; "a jump in attendance" |
| ~ increase | a change resulting in an increase.; "the increase is scheduled for next month" |
| ~ quantum leap, quantum jump | a sudden large increase or advance.; "this may not insure success but it will represent a quantum leap from last summer" |
| n. (event) | 2. jump, leap, saltation | an abrupt transition.; "a successful leap from college to the major leagues" |
| ~ transition | a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another. |
| ~ quantum jump | (physics) an abrupt transition of an electron or atom or molecule from one quantum state to another with the emission or absorption of a quantum. |
| n. (communication) | 3. jump | (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another. |
| ~ transition | a passage that connects a topic to one that follows. |
| n. (act) | 4. jump, start, startle | a sudden involuntary movement.; "he awoke with a start" |
| ~ inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex | an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus. |
| ~ startle reaction, startle response | a complicated involuntary reaction to a sudden unexpected stimulus (especially a loud noise); involves flexion of most skeletal muscles and a variety of visceral reactions. |
| ~ moro reflex, startle reflex | a normal reflex of young infants; a sudden loud noise causes the child to stretch out the arms and flex the legs. |
| ~ flinch, wince | a reflex response to sudden pain. |
| n. (act) | 5. jump, parachuting | descent with a parachute.; "he had done a lot of parachuting in the army" |
| ~ skydiving | performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute. |
| ~ descent | the act of changing your location in a downward direction. |
| n. (act) | 6. jump, jumping | the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground.; "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected" |
| ~ actuation, propulsion | the act of propelling. |
| ~ header | a headlong jump (or fall).; "he took a header into the shrubbery" |
| ~ hop | the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot). |
| ~ leap, leaping, bounce, bound, saltation, spring | a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards. |
| ~ hurdle, vault | the act of jumping over an obstacle. |
| ~ jumping up and down | jumping in one spot (as in excitement).; "the wailing and jumping up and down exhausted him" |
| ~ capriole | (dressage) a vertical jump of a trained horse with a kick of the hind legs at the top of the jump. |
| v. (motion) | 7. bound, jump, leap, spring | move forward by leaps and bounds.; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ pronk | jump straight up.; "kangaroos pronk" |
| ~ bounce, rebound, ricochet, take a hop, resile, recoil, spring, bound, reverberate | spring back; spring away from an impact.; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" |
| ~ burst | move suddenly, energetically, or violently.; "He burst out of the house into the cool night" |
| ~ bounce | leap suddenly.; "He bounced to his feet" |
| ~ capriole | perform a capriole, of horses in dressage. |
| ~ galumph | move around heavily and clumsily.; "the giant tortoises galumphed around in their pen" |
| ~ ski jump | jump on skis. |
| ~ saltate | leap or skip, often in dancing.; "These fish swim with a saltating motion" |
| ~ vault | bound vigorously. |
| ~ leapfrog | jump across.; "He leapfrogged his classmates" |
| ~ vault, overleap | jump across or leap over (an obstacle). |
| ~ curvet | perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse. |
| ~ hop, hop-skip, skip | jump lightly. |
| ~ caper | jump about playfully. |
| ~ hop | make a jump forward or upward. |
| v. (motion) | 8. jump, start, startle | move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm.; "She startled when I walked into the room" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ shy | start suddenly, as from fright. |
| ~ boggle | startle with amazement or fear. |
| ~ rear back | start with anger or resentment or in protest. |
| ~ jackrabbit | go forward or start with a fast, sudden movement. |
| v. (competition) | 9. jump | make a sudden physical attack on.; "The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat" |
| ~ assail, assault, set on, attack | attack someone physically or emotionally.; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" |
| v. (change) | 10. jump | increase suddenly and significantly.; "Prices jumped overnight" |
| ~ mount, wax, climb, rise | go up or advance.; "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered" |
| v. (stative) | 11. jump, jump out, leap out, stand out, stick out | be highly noticeable. |
| ~ appear, seem, look | give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time" |
| v. (competition) | 12. jump | enter eagerly into.; "He jumped into the game" |
| ~ enter, participate | become a participant; be involved in.; "enter a race"; "enter an agreement"; "enter a drug treatment program"; "enter negotiations" |
| v. (change) | 13. climb up, jump, rise | rise in rank or status.; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| v. (motion) | 14. jump, jump off, leap | jump down from an elevated point.; "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (motion) | 15. derail, jump | run off or leave the rails.; "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| v. (motion) | 16. chute, jump, parachute | jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute. |
| ~ glide | fly in or as if in a glider plane. |
| ~ dive, plunge, plunk | drop steeply.; "the stock market plunged" |
| ~ sky dive, skydive | jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute. |
| ~ come down, descend, go down, fall | move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" |
| v. (motion) | 17. jump, leap | cause to jump or leap.; "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop" |
| ~ bound, jump, leap, spring | move forward by leaps and bounds.; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?" |
| v. (motion) | 18. jump, jump-start, jumpstart | start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery. |
| ~ start up, start | get going or set in motion.; "We simply could not start the engine"; "start up the computer" |
| v. (cognition) | 19. jump, pass over, skip, skip over | bypass.; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" |
| ~ neglect, leave out, omit, pretermit, overleap, overlook, miss, drop | leave undone or leave out.; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" |
| v. (change) | 20. jump, leap | pass abruptly from one state or topic to another.; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another" |
| ~ switch, change, shift | lay aside, abandon, or leave for another.; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes" |
| v. (change) | 21. alternate, jump | go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions. |
| ~ vary, alter, change | become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence.; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season" |
| leap | | |
| n. (act) | 1. bounce, bound, leap, leaping, saltation, spring | a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards. |
| ~ jumping, jump | the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground.; "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected" |
| ~ capriole, caper | a playful leap or hop. |
| ~ pounce | the act of pouncing. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. leap | the distance leaped (or to be leaped).; "a leap of 10 feet" |
| ~ distance | the property created by the space between two objects or points. |
| ~ elevation | (ballet) the height of a dancer's leap or jump.; "a dancer of exceptional elevation" |
| sprung | (v.) | spring |
| spring | | |
| n. (time) | 1. spring, springtime | the season of growth.; "the emerging buds were a sure sign of spring"; "he will hold office until the spring of next year" |
| ~ march equinox, spring equinox, vernal equinox | March 21. |
| ~ time of year, season | one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions.; "the regular sequence of the seasons" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. spring | a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed.; "the spring was broken" |
| ~ bedspring | (usually plural) one of the springs holding up the mattress of a bed. |
| ~ coil spring, volute spring | a spring in the shape of a coil. |
| ~ elastic device | any flexible device that will return to its original shape when stretched. |
| ~ leaf spring | long narrow spring consisting of several layers of metal springs bracketed together. |
| ~ mainspring | the most important spring in a mechanical device (especially a clock or watch); as it uncoils it drives the mechanism. |
| ~ spiral spring | a spring that is wound like a spiral. |
| n. (object) | 3. fountain, natural spring, outflow, outpouring, spring | a natural flow of ground water. |
| ~ fountain of youth | a fountain described in folk tales as able to make people young again.; "Ponce de Leon discovered Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth" |
| ~ geological formation, formation | (geology) the geological features of the earth. |
| ~ geyser | a spring that discharges hot water and steam. |
| ~ hot spring, thermal spring | a natural spring of water at a temperature of 70 F or above. |
| n. (location) | 4. spring | a point at which water issues forth. |
| ~ origin, source, root, rootage, beginning | the place where something begins, where it springs into being.; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" |
| n. (attribute) | 5. give, spring, springiness | the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length. |
| ~ elasticity, snap | the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed.; "the waistband had lost its snap" |
| v. (stative) | 6. form, spring, take form, take shape | develop into a distinctive entity.; "our plans began to take shape" |
| ~ regenerate | be formed or shaped anew. |
| ~ become | come into existence.; "What becomes has duration" |
| v. (motion) | 7. bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop | spring back; spring away from an impact.; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" |
| ~ kick back, recoil, kick | spring back, as from a forceful thrust.; "The gun kicked back into my shoulder" |
| ~ bound off, skip | bound off one point after another. |
| ~ carom | rebound after hitting.; "The car caromed off several lampposts" |
| ~ bound, jump, leap, spring | move forward by leaps and bounds.; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?" |
| v. (body) | 8. spring | develop suddenly.; "The tire sprang a leak" |
| ~ acquire, develop, produce, grow, get | come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes).; "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts" |
| v. (communication) | 9. spring | produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly.; "He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving" |
| ~ disclose, divulge, let on, expose, give away, let out, reveal, unwrap, discover, bring out, break | make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret.; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" |
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