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power dive
1noun
, Aeronautics.
- 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.
- to cause to perform or to perform a power dive.
power dive
noun
- a steep dive by an aircraft with its engines at high power
verb
- to cause (an aircraft) to perform a power dive or (of an aircraft) to perform a power dive
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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.
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Flight Lieutenant Wiggins had shoved the control stick forward and was dropping the Wellington down into a roaring power dive.
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The Solarite flashed down in a power dive—down with a sickening lurch.
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Something inside my brain was sucking all my strength in one tremendous, surging power-dive of wish fulfillment.
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The slow drop turned into a power dive and the jungle billowed up.
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