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diving board

diving board noun: a springboard used for diving into water.

diving board: a springboard used for diving into water
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Noun

diving board (plural diving boards)

  1. A springboard used for diving into water.
    • The spring diving board is four feet above the water, but there is another diving board five feet higher than this one.1875, The Herald of Health, page 77
    • when a laminated wood diving board begins to split at the seams, there's just one thing to do: cut it apart and glue it back together.1961 May, Popular Science, volume 178, number 5, page 173

Forms of diving board

pluraldiving boards
alternative formdiving-board

Questions about diving board

What does diving board mean?
Diving board means a springboard used for diving into water.
What part of speech is diving board?
Diving board is a noun.
What is the plural of diving board?
The plural of diving board is diving boards.

Words near diving board in the dictionary

  1. diving beetles
  2. diving bell
  3. diving bell spider
  4. diving bell spiders
  5. diving bells
  6. diving board
  7. diving boards
  8. diving boat
  9. diving boats
  10. diving brick
  11. diving bricks

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