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A scuba set is an independent breathing set that provides a diver with the breathing gas necessary to breathe underwater during diving.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIVER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
diver
 n.  one who works underwater
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Only the trained diver can go down into those depths and explore them and come to the surface again.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  In a few days the Eldorado Expedition went into the patient wilderness, that closed upon it as the sea closes over a diver.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
3  A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
4  Thou hast been where bell or diver never went; hast slept by many a sailor's side, where sleepless mothers would give their lives to lay them down.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
5  One packed rush was made to the side, and every eye counted every ripple, as moment followed moment, and no sign of either the sinker or the diver could be seen.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
6  So the diver hoisted it up, and was much disappointed on opening it to find no pearls.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
7  As in the ocean, the diver may disappear there.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
8  But, as before hinted, for some time there was a continual fetching and carrying on board of divers odds and ends of things, both large and small.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
9  Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
10  At this meeting divers plans of operation were suggested, though none of a character to meet the wishes of their ardent leader.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
11  Sam was in the highest possible feather, and expressed his exultation by all sorts of supernatural howls and ejaculations, by divers odd motions and contortions of his whole system.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  It appears that while procuring some provisions for supper, Madame Magloire had heard things in divers places.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
13  There Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem strange for such services, honorable manners.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
14  In the meantime, divers complications were approaching.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW
15  Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was occupied with divers and troublesome matters.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
Example Sentence:
1  The scuba diver typically swims underwater by using fins attached to the feet.
2  A scuba set is an independent breathing set that provides a diver with the breathing gas necessary to breathe underwater during diving.
3  The diver flipped over backwards into the water.
4  The diver dived off the high board.
5  A team of divers was sent down to examine the wreck.
6  Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore.