Word Finder - divers

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Someone who dives, especially as a sport.

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• urinator

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Someone who works underwater; a frogman.

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The loon (bird).

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The New Zealand sand diver.

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The long-finned sand diver.

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A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).

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A pickpocket.

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A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.

They have great abundance of silk, from which they weave cloths of silk, and gold of divers kinds, and they also manufacture all sorts of equipments for an army.

Divers have been employed to collect amber from the deeper waters.

A concordat may assume divers forms - historically, three.

The successive emigrations and occupation of the Alpine region by divers Teutonic tribes from the 5th to the 6th centuries are, too, known to us only in outline, while to them, as to the Frankish kings and emperors, the Alps offered a route from one place to another rather than a permanent residence.

The town officials consist of the selectmen (usually three, five or seven, sometimes nine), the town clerk, treasurer, assessors, tax collector, school committee men, and the holders of divers minor offices according to local needs.

The sponge divers brought up sponges valued at £24,630.

The miners work in the bottom in the same manner as divers in an ordinary diving-bell.

And this I have experimented in a dark Room by illuminating those bodies with uncompounded light of divers colours.

During the next years Theodore was beset by enemies on divers sides.

The great lava-fields, however, are composed of vast sheets of lava, ruptured and riven in divers ways (helluhraun).

However, by an act of 1547 every person entitled to the benefit of clergy is to be allowed the same, "although he hath been divers times married to any single woman or single women, or to any widow or widows, or to two wives or more."

In February parliament discovered that " by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles " it was manifest that the realm of England was an empire governed by one supreme head, the king, to whom all sorts and degrees of people - both clergy and laity - ought to bear next to God a natural and humble obedience, and that to him God had given the authority finally to determine all causes and contentions in the realm, " without restraint, or provocation to any foreign princes or potentates of the world."

From the day of the earliest foreign commerce sailors and traders of divers nationalities began to settle in the province.

In 1662 (the year of the Act of Uniformity) he reprinted the Irenicum with an appendix, in which he sought to prove that "the church is a distinct society from the state, and has divers rights and privileges of its own."

The treatise De cursibus ecclesiasticis, discovered in 1853, is a liturgical manual for determining the hour of divers nocturnal offices by the position of the stars.

Here also he dipped into divers stores of learning, notably classics under Wolf.

In 1539 the last and 60th abbot of Glastonbury, Robert Whyting, was lodged in the Tower on account of "divers and sundry treasons."

Between 1825 and 1827 he produced divers sketches, chronological tables, &c., of modern history.

These are divided into Familiar Correspondence, Correspondence in Old Age, Divers Letters and Letters without a Title; to which may be added the curious autobiographical fragment entitled the Epistle to Posterity.

But then having thought on a tender way of polishing, proper for metall, whereby, as I imagined, the figure also would be corrected to the last; I began to try, what might be effected in this kind, and by degrees so far perfected an Instrument (in the essential parts of it like that I sent to London), by which I could discern Jupiters 4 Concomitants, and shewed them divers times to two others of my acquaintance.

Colours are not Qualifications of Light, derived from Refractions, or Reflections of natural Bodies (as 'tis generally believed), but original and connate properties, which in divers Rays are divers.

In autumn last I spent two months in calculations to no purpose for want of a good method, which made me afterwards return to the first book, and enlarge it with divers propositions, some relating to comets, others to other things, found out last winter.

Divers obtains it by mixing cold saturated solutions containing one molecular proportion of sodium nitrate, and two molecular proportions of acid sodium sulphite, and then adding a saturated solution of potassium chloride to the mixture.

The inhabitants present a remarkable conglomeration of different races, various nationalities, divers languages, distinctive costumes and conflicting faiths, giving, it is true, a singular interest to what may be termed the human scenery of the city, but rendering impossible any close social cohesion, or the development of a common civic life.

The question now was how to occupy the military activity of a young, handsome, chivalric and gallant prince, ondoyant et divers, intoxicated by his first victory and his tardy accession to fortune.

In his Histoire des francais des divers etats, ou histoire de France aux cinq derniers siecles (10 vols., 1828-1844) he undertook to describe the different classes and occupations of the community.

For this he made a collection of manuscripts, which he sold in 1835 (many of them passed into the library of Sir Thomas Philipps), drawing up a catalogue under the singular title of Traite de materiaux manuscrits de divers genres d'histoire.

These pumps are capable of supplying ample air to two divers simultaneously, at the depth of twelve fathoms.

Hundreds of kilometers of coastline, many of which are still unexplored, make the Maltese archipelago a favorite with adventurous divers.

In the UK, divers with allergic asthma are permitted to dive, although those with exercise or emotion induced bronchospasm are banned.

A well equipped craft providing vigilant surface cover and ready to recall divers or follow marker buoys is essential.

Both divers commenced the ascent but at 30m the casualty lost buoyancy and started to sink feet first.

The majority of them are stunned by divers who use cyanide to poison the waters around them.

The divers then decompressed on 60% & 80% Nitrox.

Later in the morning 8 great crested grebes and 6 red-throated divers were present feeding offshore.

Look at the most experienced divers in your club, I bet most of them have shot belts!

Recreational divers give many reasons for making the switch to wings.

There are regular power cuts (although Swahili divers have their own back up generator ).

You can find everything Sharm el Sheikh is famous for without the hassle, cost and being one of 500 divers in the water!

Here you can see the barnacle encrusted Alum Bay wooden gun carriage wheel brought up by divers in 2002.

Clearly enthused by the subject matter, Brownlow wants to inspire more divers to explore fresh water.

Koh Tao is much quieter and extremely popular with divers and watersports enthusiasts.

If multiple divers have been deployed and the divers become separated, the support vessel will remain equidistant from each.

Divers injected grout into voids under the weir to stabilize it.

Situated in the village of Xewkija, Divers Lodge is a family-run guesthouse where you will enjoy a warm welcome.

Very lucky divers might have a seal for company on the way up, or see the guillemots diving down to meet them.

Most divers head straight for the north pinnacle where you can find schooling hammerhead sharks.

For the more adventurous holidaymaker you can even learn to Scuba Dive at the famous Looe Divers.

When they are hunting divers hunters usually rely on large numbers of decoys to attract the ducks.

A " stinger " suit would be recommended for divers to ward off box jellyfish.