Diving Suit

Definition: Diving Suit

Diving Suit

Noun

1. A weighted and hermetically sealed garment supplied with air; worn by underwater divers.

Synonym: Diving Suit

Synonym: diving dress (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Diving suit

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A form of exposure protection for scuba or free diving that may be made from Neoprene, heavy duty fabric coated with rubber or PVC. The latter, would be considered a drysuit.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Diving suit."

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Crosswords: Diving Suit

Specialty definitions using "diving suit": diver assistant, DIVER HELPER, diver tender ♦ life-line attendant ♦ submarine worker. (references)

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Photo Album: Diving Suit

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	"During the official test of the baby submarine by Dr. William Beebe on behalf of the National Geographic Society. Frank Crilley, the holder of the world's deep-sea diving record in diving suit, being dressed in his togs preparatory to going down in the submarine, passing out through its underwater hatch, and then rising to the surface outside the submarine -- the climax of the test." Quoted from the original caption of this photograph, which was taken in late 1932, during tests on the Explorer in Pelham Bay, Long Island, New York. Frank William Crilley, the diver in this photograph, had been awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in rescuing another man during diving operations on USS F-4 (SS-23) on 17 April 1915. Credit: NAVY.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Diving Suit

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
diving suit	36
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Diving Suit

Language		Translations for "diving suit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		scaphandre (diving-suit). (various references)

German		taucheranzug. (various references)

Greek		σκάφανδρο. (various references)

Italian		scafandro. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		潜水服 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せ�"すいふく. (various references)

Manx		cullee hummee. (various references)

Pig Latin		ivingday uitsay

Portuguese		escafandro (armor, armour, diving-dress). (various references)

Spanish		escafandra (aqualung, diving dress, helmet). (various references)

Turkish		dalgıç elbisesi (diving dress). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Diving Suit

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-i-n-s-t-u-v"
	-2 letters: visiting.
	-3 letters: dusting, suiting, tidings.
	-4 letters: digits, dingus, diving, nudist, siding, siting, tiding, vising.
	-5 letters: digit, dings, dints, duits, dungs, dunts, guids, intis, nidus, nitid, sting, stung, suing, suint, tings, tungs, units, using, visit.
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