nosedive
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- noun
- /ˈnoʊsdaɪv/
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picada
- 30 seconds later, at 29,000 feet, Flight 11 takes a severe nosedive at a descent of 32,000 feet per minute.
Examples
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The last part of the controlled descent will be a nosedive into the ground.
Fiction book (1999) -
Pilots are trained to recover from a nosedive to ensure the safety of passengers.
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Well, no sooner had I dozed off, I woke up to find the plane in one serious nosedive!
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For the next five minutes, the plane is put into a near nosedive, descending more than 24,000 feet.
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A loss could very well be demoralizing, and we all know that fighters past their prime can take late-career nosedives from which they just can't get out.
Blog text (19) -
The aircraft was in a nosedive after losing an engine, alarming everyone on board.
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During the demonstration, the fighter jet executed a dramatic nosedive before ascending back into the sky.
Synonyms
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A steep nose-down descent by an aircraft during a maneuver
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7.6
A fast downward spin of an aircraft that loses control
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A sudden steep fall that often happens to a plane with its front pointing down or to prices
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A very fast, steep descent by a submarine or plane to avoid danger
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Morphology
Etymology
Nosedive comes from joining nose ('front') and dive ('to fall quickly'), and it pictures a plane going down nose-first, so it means a steep, sudden downward movement of an aircraft.