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[syn: diving suit, diving dress]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Diving \Div"ing\, a.
That dives or is used or diving.
[1913 Webster]
Diving beetle (Zool.), any beetle of the family
Dytiscid[ae], which habitually lives under water; --
called also water tiger.
Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes
bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under
water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air
at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from
above.
Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine.
Diving stone, a kind of jasper.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
diving dress
n 1: a weighted and hermetically sealed garment supplied with
air; worn by underwater divers [syn: diving suit, diving
dress]