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Take A Dive

Definition: Take A Dive

Take A Dive

Verb

1. Of a boxer: pretend to be knocked out.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Modern Usage: Take A Dive

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Lyrics

So baby's gonna take a dive and ("To the Moon and Back"; performing artist: Savage Garden)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Take A Dive

Language Translations for "take a dive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

βουτώ (dip, dive, douse, duck, immerse, pick pockets, pinch, plunge, sop, steal, steep, submerge, submerse), πέφτω (blow down, come on, crash, drop off, fall, go down, lapse, plonk, plunge, slump, slumped in a chair, topple, tumble). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aketay aay iveday.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Take A Dive

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-i-k-t-v"

-2 letters: aviated, deviate.

-3 letters: aviate, dative, evited, ideate.

-4 letters: davit, deave, eaved, evade, evite, kited, vitae.

-5 letters: adit, aide, akee, avid, data, date, deet, deke, deva, diet, dike, dita, dite, diva, dive, eave, edit, eide, eked, idea, ikat, kadi, kata, kava, keet, kite, kiva, taka, take, teak, teed, tide, tied, tike, vide, vied, vita.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Take A Dive


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 61 6B 65      41      44 69 76 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01000001 00100000 01000100 01101001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#107 &#101 &#32 &#65 &#32 &#68 &#105 &#118 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 006B 0065      0041      0044 0069 0076 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54677771235238758871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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