(music) composition that has several short movements, a style that composers started to use in the 18th century.

plural of diver

Archaic spelling of diverse, in the sense of various or assorted.

(archaic or literary) An indefinite number (at least two).

(transitive) To turn aside from a course. / (transitive) To distract. / (transitive) To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention) / (obsolete, intransitive) To turn aside; to digress.

(idiomatic, archaic, thieves' cant) Pickpockets who practice in churches; also churchwardens and overseers of the poor.

Someone who dives, especially as a sport. / Someone who works underwater; a frogman. / (UK, Ireland) loon (bird) / The New Zealand sand diver. / The long-finned sand diver.

A person who dives for pearls. / (slang) A person who works as a dishwasher.

The quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness. / A variety; diverse types or examples. / (chiefly business) Equal-opportunity inclusion.

Growing further apart; diverging. / (mathematics) (said of a sequence or series) Diverging; not approaching a limit. / Disagreeing from something given; differing. / Causing divergence of rays.