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View synonyms for diving bell

diving bell

noun

  1. a chamber with an open bottom in which persons can go underwater without special apparatus, water being excluded from the upper part by compressed air fed in by a hose.


diving bell

noun

  1. an early diving submersible having an open bottom and being supplied with compressed air
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of diving bell1

First recorded in 1655–65
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Example Sentences

It might act a bit like the diving bell that protects human divers.

That last film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, won Schnabel the best-director prize at Cannes.

J ulian Schnabel, director of Miral , was nominated for an Academy Award for his film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

I have not risen in the air in a balloon, nor sunk below the level of the sea in a diving-bell.

For hundreds of years men have used a contrivance called a diving-bell for working under water.

A lady named Morris, of Plymouth, is recorded to have been the first of her sex to venture under water in a diving bell.

It was like an open-bottomed diving bell welded to the hull.

One would think the diving-bell in its now very practicable state might be employed with great advantage for both purposes.

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