diving suit
noun
: a waterproof suit with a removable helmet that is worn by a diver who is supplied with air pumped through a tube
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Roberts could be seen sporting a blue diving suit while her partner wore a black bathing suit with a white cap.
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Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
His international platform United 24 launched fundraising for lifeboats, motor pumps, diving suits and other things for rescuers.
—Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 8 June 2023
Last week, the North Korean man, wearing flippers, a padded jacket and a diving suit, waded through choppy waters along the Korean Peninsula’s east coast, according to South Korea’s semiofficial Yonhap News Agency, citing the country’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.
—Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
In another Ganesh image, a figure in an antique deep-sea diving suit appears to inhale a phantasmagorical portrait of a bejeweled Indian goddess through a breathing valve in the dive helmet.
—Steven Litt, cleveland, 2 Feb. 2022
That’s a diving suit that would be flexible but could still withstand enormous pressure.
—Eric A Powell, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2012
These include the parachute, diving suit, machine gun and armored car/tank.
—Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2022
It was designed overnight by Genta, who was inspired by a childhood memory of seeing a man being sealed into a diving suit near Geneva’s Mont Blanc Bridge.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 May 2022
On one of the research expeditions, Widder had the chance to test an atmospheric deep-sea diving suit called WASP, which resembles a submersible suit of armor.
—Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2010
Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
His international platform United 24 launched fundraising for lifeboats, motor pumps, diving suits and other things for rescuers.
—Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 8 June 2023
Last week, the North Korean man, wearing flippers, a padded jacket and a diving suit, waded through choppy waters along the Korean Peninsula’s east coast, according to South Korea’s semiofficial Yonhap News Agency, citing the country’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.
—Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
In another Ganesh image, a figure in an antique deep-sea diving suit appears to inhale a phantasmagorical portrait of a bejeweled Indian goddess through a breathing valve in the dive helmet.
—Steven Litt, cleveland, 2 Feb. 2022
That’s a diving suit that would be flexible but could still withstand enormous pressure.
—Eric A Powell, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2012
These include the parachute, diving suit, machine gun and armored car/tank.
—Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2022
It was designed overnight by Genta, who was inspired by a childhood memory of seeing a man being sealed into a diving suit near Geneva’s Mont Blanc Bridge.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 May 2022
On one of the research expeditions, Widder had the chance to test an atmospheric deep-sea diving suit called WASP, which resembles a submersible suit of armor.
—Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2010
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First Known Use
1908, in the meaning defined above
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