Diver
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- A diver is a person who practices scuba diving or surface supplied diving.
- A diver is an athlete who practices diving in the sense of jumping or falling deliberately into water.
- A diver is the European name for a group of aquatic birds of the order Gaviiformes, in North America called loons.
- Diver - British WWII armed forces code name for the German V1 flying bomb.[1] (sometimes called Operation Diver without citation)
- A diver is one of 2 New Zealand fish: New Zealand sand diver or Long-finned sand diver.
- Diver is an Irish surname. (Uí Dhuibhir in Irish, perhaps derived from dubh = "black")
- WWII British code word for "Enemy Flying Bombs"
With an ending S (but not plural):
- divers is an adjective meaning "diverse, various" or "many and varied", in older English usage including:-
- The Authorized Version of the Bible, including the phrase "divers diseases".
- Francis Bacon's letters in 1679
- In the phrase divers hands.