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predive

predive adjective: before a dive.

Adjective

predive (not comparable)

  1. Before a dive.
    • “Vessel prep” had been completed at dawn, so after a pre-dive briefing, I climbed a ladder to the top hatch of the sub, took off my boots and clambered into the tube2019, Tony Perrottet, “A Deep Dive Into the Plans to Take Tourists to the ‘Titanic’”, in Smithsonian Magazine

Adverb

predive (not comparable)

  1. Before a dive
    • Each of the divers was tested seven times--twice predive in the chamber, three times during the dive, and twice postdive, with one to several days separating the administrations.1981, Helen M. Paulson, Alma P. Ryan, The F-M 100-Hue Test For Assessing the Effect of Oxygen on Color Vision, U.S. Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, page 3

Origin of predive

From pre- + dive.

Questions about predive

What does predive mean?
Predive means before a dive.
What part of speech is predive?
Predive can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near predive in the dictionary

  1. predistributions
  2. predisturbance
  3. predisturbed
  4. preditor
  5. preditors
  6. predive
  7. prediversified
  8. prediversion
  9. prediverticular
  10. predivestiture
  11. predividend

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