diving suit

Examples

• All

• The next thing he'll buy me will be a diving suit.

  The Dead (1987)

• Her older brother jumped out at me in his shiny green skin-diving suit, goggles, and flippers, looking like the creature from the swamp.

  Fiction book (2001)

• I altered my diving suit slightly.

  Fiction book (1997)

• It looks like an ancient diving suit from the turn of the last century.

• That's the reason for the diving suits.

  Sphere (1998)

• The mourners were dressed in diving suits and swam about, releasing columns of bubbles that ascended in a rush to the surface.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Two diving suits were missing. Felicia propelled herself across the compartment while Sonya closed the exterior hatch behind them.

  Fiction book (2000)

• More than a century later, in 1535, engineer Francesco De Marchi explored Lake Nemi using what could be called the first diving suit, which De Marchi referred to simply as the istrumento.

  Academic text (2002)

• Before jumping in, Kim zips her diving suit and makes sure water can't seep in.

• Yesterday, divers in specially protected biohazard diving suits combed the area where the plane is believed to have gone down.

Synonyms

D

diving dress

vsdiving suit

• Archaic

8.0

A heavy airtight suit that gave divers air while working underwater before modern diving gear

is the general weighted airtight garment used now for underwater activity

How Protective

diving suit

2 3.6

wet suit

6 3.3

swimsuit

80 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology