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diving bell

noun as in one-person diving apparatus

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It might act a bit like the diving bell that protects human divers.

That last film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, won Schnabel the best-director prize at Cannes.

J ulian Schnabel, director of Miral , was nominated for an Academy Award for his film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

I have not risen in the air in a balloon, nor sunk below the level of the sea in a diving-bell.

For hundreds of years men have used a contrivance called a diving-bell for working under water.

A lady named Morris, of Plymouth, is recorded to have been the first of her sex to venture under water in a diving bell.

It was like an open-bottomed diving bell welded to the hull.

One would think the diving-bell in its now very practicable state might be employed with great advantage for both purposes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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