deep-dive
deep-dive verb: to engage in deep diving. Also the alternative form of deep dive.
Verb
deep-dive (third-person singular simple present deep-dives, present participle deep-diving, simple past deep-dived or (chiefly US) deep-dove, past participle deep-dived)
- To engage in deep diving.
- To conduct an in-depth examination or analysis of a topic.
- To involve to immerse oneself thoroughly in (something).
- All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.2012 [2011], Jeanette Winterson, Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?, Bath: Windsor, →ISBN, page 9
- Michod […] told a Venice Film Festival press conference today that the pair “worked out really early on we were going to drift away from the plays themselves. We deep-dived the research and then made a whole bunch of stuff up. I can’t remember what’s real, what’s made up and what’s from...2019 September 2, Nancy Tartaglione, “‘The King’s Timothée Chalamet & Joel Edgerton On Getting Down In The Mud For David Michod’s Period Epic – Venice”, in Deadline
Also used as
deep-dive is also the alternative form of deep dive.
Forms of deep-dive
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | deep-dives |
| present participle | deep-diving |
| past | deep-dived |
| past US | deep-dove |
| past participle | deep-dived |
| Noun | |
| plural | deep-dives |
Questions about deep-dive
- What does deep-dive mean?
- Deep-dive means to engage in deep diving.
- What part of speech is deep-dive?
- Deep-dive is a verb.
- What is the past tense of deep-dive?
- The past tense of deep-dive is deep-dived.
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