Dive vs. Snowball — What's the Difference?

To plunge, especially headfirst, into water.

A snowball is a spherical object made from snow, usually created by scooping snow with the hands, and pressing the snow together to compact it into a ball. Snowballs are often used in games such as snowball fights.

To execute a dive in athletic competition.

A mass of soft, wet snow packed into a ball that can be thrown, as in play.

To participate in the sport of competitive diving.

Any of several plants having rounded clusters of white flowers, especially certain cultivated viburnums.

To go toward the bottom of a body of water

Chiefly Southern US A snow cone.

To engage in the sport of scuba diving.

To grow rapidly in significance, importance, or size

To submerge under power. Used of a submarine.

To throw snowballs.

To fall head down through the air.

To cause to grow or increase rapidly.

To descend nose down at an acceleration usually exceeding that of free fall. Used of an airplane.

To throw snowballs at.

To engage in the sport of skydiving.

A ball of snow, usually one made in the hand and thrown for amusement in a snowball fight; also a larger ball of snow made by rolling a snowball around in snow that sticks to it and increases its diameter.

To drop sharply and rapidly; plummet

A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat.

To rush headlong and vanish into something

(figuratively) Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control).

To plunge one's hand into something

A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.

To lunge or leap headfirst

(US) A type of ice dessert.

To plunge into an activity or enterprise with vigor and gusto.

A type of cake. en

(Sports) To exaggerate a fall in an attempt to induce a referee to call a penalty on an opponent.

Of something with rapid growth, often uncontrolled. Compare snowball effect.

To cause (an aircraft, for example) to dive.

(intransitive) To rapidly grow out of proportion or control.

To go scuba-diving to or along

(intransitive) To play at throwing snowballs.

A plunge into water, especially done headfirst and in a way established for athletic competition.

(transitive) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.

The act or an instance of going under water, as of a submarine or a skin diver.

To receive ejaculated semen in one's mouth, and to then pass it back and forth between one’s mouth and another person’s mouth.

A nearly vertical descent at an accelerated speed through the air.

A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.

A rapid or abrupt decrease

The Guelder-rose.

(Slang) A disreputable or run-down bar or nightclub.

A shrub of the genus Viburnum, having large clusters of white flowers.

A run-down residence.

To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.

A knockout feigned by a prizefighter

To throw snowballs.

An exaggerated fall, especially by a hockey player, intended to draw a penalty against an opponent.

To increase in magnitude at an accelerating rate, achieving large proportions; - by analogy with a snowball rolling down a steep hill, causing a large snow slide.

A lunge or a headlong jump

Plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions

(Football) An offensive play in which the carrier of the ball plunges into the opposing line in order to gain short yardage.

Ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce

(intransitive) To swim under water.

Ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup

(intransitive) To jump into water head-first.

Snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully)

(intransitive) To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.

Increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate

(intransitive) To descend sharply or steeply.

Throw snowballs at

To undertake with enthusiasm.

(sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.

(transitive) To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.

(transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.

To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.

A jump or plunge into water.

A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.

A downward swooping motion.

A swim under water.

A decline.

(slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.

(aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.

(sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.

Plural of diva

To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.

Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.

To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck.

To explore by diving; to plunge into.

A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.

A place of low resort.

A cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall

A headlong plunge into water

A steep nose-down descent by an aircraft

Drop steeply;

Plunge into water;

Swim under water;