NOSE DIVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A steep nose-down descent by an aircraft

Synonyms:

dive; nose dive; nosedive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("nose dive" is a kind of...):

descent (the act of changing your location in a downward direction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nose dive"):

power dive (a dive of an airplane that is accelerated both by gravity and by the power of the engine)