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noun

any of various waterproof garments for underwater swimming or diving, especially one that is weighted, hermetically sealed, and supplied with air under pressure through a hose attached to a removable helmet.

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Origin of diving suit

First recorded in 1905–10

Words nearby diving suit

diving board, diving boat, diving duck, diving petrel, diving reflex, diving suit, divining rod, divinity, divinity school, divinize, Divinópolis

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How to use diving suit in a sentence

His drawings include ideas for diving suits, helicopters and parachutes, as well as weapons of war.
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San Francisco was the first city to pass one in 2006; since then, 14 other cities and three states have followed suit.
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Eventually, DeCrow and Seidenberg filed suit against the East Village mainstay.
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The pieces are near-identical, excepting the signature buttons on the Chanel suit and a few small tailoring details.
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In the course of her remarkable travels Thecla baptizes herself by diving into a pool of “man-eating seals.”
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We arrived to the din of a party in full swing: a band, multiple kegs of beer, dancing, foosball, and mantle diving.
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Behold a dumpy, comfortable British paterfamilias in a light flannel suit and a faded sun hat.
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He is what the bill wishes to make for us, a regular root doctor, and will suit the place exactly.
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We had three long tables which Liszt arranged to suit himself, his own place being in the middle.
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Not a dollar did he possess—not even did he have a suit of clothes any more, and wore every day his corduroys.
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When Dan put his tobacco back unbitten, it was always an infallible sign that something had gone in a way that did not suit him.
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British Dictionary definitions for diving suit

diving suit

diving dress

noun

a waterproof suit used by divers, having a heavy detachable helmet and an air supply

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