DIVA (dive)

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Irregular inflected form: dive   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does diva mean? 

• DIVA (noun)
  The noun DIVA has 1 sense:

1. a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star

  Familiarity information: DIVA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

diva; prima donna

Hypernyms ("diva" is a kind of...):

opera star; operatic star (singer of lead role in an opera)

 Context examples 

While mission managers were confident Cassini would pass through the gap successfully, they took extra precautions with this first dive, as the region had never been explored.

(Cassini Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings, NASA)

He bent his head a little towards me, and with a single hasty glance seemed to dive into my eyes.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

On Sept. 15, the mission's planned conclusion will be a final dive into Saturn's atmosphere.

(Over Saturn's Turbulent North, NASA)

They can search for food at the surface of the ocean but are also known to dive deep.

(New study of endangered whale shark youth shows vital habitat similarities, Wikinews)

Cassini is scheduled to make a close flyby of Enceladus on Oct. 28, in the mission's deepest-ever dive through the moon's active plume of icy material.

(Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus, NASA)

The findings are the result of the ongoing deep dive into data from NASA's Cassini mission.

(New Organic Compounds Found in Enceladus Ice Grains, NASA)

Jia's team was inspired to dive back into the Galileo data by Melissa McGrath of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.

(Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes, NASA)

We were all fascinated to see them take the dive, even when we thought it would be our turn next on the spring-board.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I began the next day with another dive into the Roman bath, and then started for Highgate.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The spacecraft's fateful dive is the final beat in the mission's Grand Finale, 22 weekly dives, which began in late April, through the gap between Saturn and its rings.

(Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn, NASA)