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'''Diver''' can mean:
*Someone who practices [[scuba diving]] or [[surface supplied diving]]
*An athlete who practices [[diving]] in the sense of jumping or falling deliberately into water.
*In sports, someone who falls down without contact to con referees
*The British English name for a group of aquatic birds of the order [[Gaviiformes]], in North America called [[loon]]s.
*British World War II armed forces code name for the German V1 [[flying bomb]].
**See [[Operation Diver]], the British countermeasures against the German V-1 flying bomb campaign
**See [[Operation Crossbow]]: an Allied operation of the Second World War against the German rocket weapons
*One of 2 New Zealand fish:
**[[New Zealand sand diver]]
**[[Long-finned sand diver]]
*A transliteration of an Irish surname prevalent in Northern [[County Donegal]], Ireland.
'''Divers''' can be:
*The plural of any of the above.
*An [[adjective]] meaning "diverse, various" or "many and varied", in older English usage including:-
** In the [[Authorized Version]] of the [[Bible]], including the phrase "divers diseases".
** In [[Francis Bacon]]'s [http://www.fbrt.org.uk/pages/essays/essay-bacon's%20good%20pens.html letters in 1679]
** In the phrase [[divers hands]].
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[[de:Taucher]]
[[he:צולל]]
[[nl:Duiker]]
[[ja:ダイバー]]