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

verb

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of power dive¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Origin of power dive²

First recorded in 1935–40

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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