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power dive

1

noun

, Aeronautics.
  1. a dive, especially a steep dive, by an aircraft in which the engine or engines are delivering thrust at or near full power.


power-dive

2

[ pou-er-dahyv ]

verb (used with or without object)

, Aeronautics.
, pow·er-dived or pow·er-dove, pow·er-dived, pow·er-div·ing.
  1. to cause to perform or to perform a power dive.

power dive

noun

  1. a steep dive by an aircraft with its engines at high power
“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


verb

  1. to cause (an aircraft) to perform a power dive or (of an aircraft) to perform a power dive
“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 power dive1

First recorded in 1925–30

Origin of power dive2

First recorded in 1935–40
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Example Sentences

Then it dropped by the nose, and started howling seaward in a vertical power dive.

Flight Lieutenant Wiggins had shoved the control stick forward and was dropping the Wellington down into a roaring power dive.

The Solarite flashed down in a power dive—down with a sickening lurch.

Something inside my brain was sucking all my strength in one tremendous, surging power-dive of wish fulfillment.

The slow drop turned into a power dive and the jungle billowed up.

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