plongée

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French plongée. See plunge.

Noun

plongée (plural plongées)

  1. (military) A slope or sloping toward the front.
    the plongée of a parapet; the plongée of a shell in its course

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for plongée in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

French

Pronunciation

Noun

plongée f (plural plongées)

  1. dive
  2. The forward tilt of an automobile when braking

Derived terms
  • antiplongée

Verb

plongée

  1. feminine singular of the past participle of plonger

Further reading
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