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Dip

Dip Meaning & Definition
Dip Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dip?

[n] a brief swim in water
[n] a brief immersion
[n] tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
[n] a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
[n] (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
[n] a depression in an otherwise level surface; "there was a dip in the road"
[v] stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
[v] go down momentarily; "Prices dipped"
[v] dip into a liquid while eating; as of bread in a soup or sauce
[v] of candles; by dipping the wick into hot, liquid wax
[v] immerse into a liquid; "dunk the bread into the soup"
[v] dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool"
[v] slope downwards; "Our property dips towards the river"
[v] appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line"
[v] lower briefly; "She dipped her knee"
[v] switch a car's headlights from a higher to a lower beam

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dip: angle of dip | cutpurse | dim | douse | douse | duck | dunk | dunk | inclination | magnetic dip | magnetic inclination | pickpocket | plunge | plunge | sink | souse

Related Terms | Find terms related to Dip: acid bath | alveolation | alveolus | antrum | apply paint | armpit | ascend | asperge | attrition | bail | bank | baptism | baptize | basin | bath | bayberry candle | beat the drum | bedaub | bedizen | begild | besmear | bougie | bowl | brush on paint | bucket | burial | bury | calcimine | candle | cannon | cant | careen | cavity | christen | climb | coat | color | complexion | concave | concavity | corpse candle | cover | crab | crater | crypt | cup | curtailment | cut | cutpurse | cutting | dab | daub | decant | decline | declivity | decrease | decrement | deep-dye | deluge | depletion | depreciation | depression | derogation | descend | descent | detraction | diminution | dipping | dish | dish out | dish up | disparagement | distemper | diver | double-dye | douse | dousing | downgate | downgrade | downhill | downslide | downswing | downtrend | downturn | draw | drop | drown | duck | ducking | dunk | dunking | dye | emblazon | enamel | engild | engulf | engulfment | exchange colors | extraction | face | fall | fall away | fall off | falling-off | falloff | farthing dip | fast-dye | feather | fingersmith | fishtail | fixing bath | flag | flag down | flash | float | flood | flow on | fold | follicle | fork | fresco | funnel chest | gild | give a signal | give the nod | glance | glaze | gloss | go down | go downhill | go uphill | grade | grain | hail | hail and speak | half-mast | hang | hanging | hock | hoist a banner | hole | hollow | hollow shell | hue | illuminate | imbue | immerge | immergence | immerse | immersion | impairment | impignorate | incline | ingrain | inundate | inundation | japan | keel | kick | lacquer | lacuna | lade | ladle | lay on color | lean | leer | lessening | light-fingered gentry | list | loop | make a sign | mercury bath | merge | mobsman | mortgage | nod | nose-dive | nudge | overwhelm | paint | parget | pickpocket | pigment | pit | pitch | pledge | plow | plunge | plunge in water | pocket | poke | pop | porpoise | pour | pour on | prime | pull out | pull up | punch bowl | push down | rain | raise a cry | rake | reduction | remission | retraction | retreat | retrenchment | rise | roll | rush candle | rushlight | sag | salute | scoop | set | shade | shadow | sheep dip | sheer | shell | shellac | shelve | shortening | shovel | shrinkage | sideslip | sidle | sign | signal | signalize | sink | sinkage | sinkhole | sinking | sinus | skew | skid | slant | slip | slop on paint | slope | slue | sluice | slump | smear | socket | sound an alarm | sound the trumpet | souse | sousing | spade | speak | spin | spiral | spoon | spout | sprinkle | stain | stipple | stoop | stunt | submerge | submergence | submerse | submersion | swag | swamp | sway | swell-mobsman | tallow candle | tallow dip | taper | tilt | tinct | tincture | tinge | tint | tip | tone | touch | trough | truncation | tumble | undercoat | undulate | unfurl a flag | uprise | varnish | veer | votary candle | vug | wash | wave | wave a flag | wave the hand | wax candle | whelm | whitewash | wink | wire | yaw

See Also | angle | bean dip | bring down | change intensity | cheese dip | clam dip | condiment | create from raw material | create from raw stuff | dabble | decline | decline | depression | dip | dip | duck | dunk | eat | get down | go down | immerse | immersion | impression | imprint | incline | let down | lower | pitch | plunge | slope | sop | souse | stain | stealer | submergence | submerging | submersion | subside | swim | swimming | take down | thief | wane

Dip In Webster's Dictionary

\Dip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dipped}or {Dipt} (?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dipping}.] [OE. dippen, duppen, AS. dyppan; akin to Dan. dyppe, Sw. doppa, and to AS. d?pan to baptize, OS. d?pian, D. doopen, G. taufen, Sw. d["o]pa, Goth. daupjan, Lith. dubus deep, hollow, OSlav. dupl? hollow, and to E. dive. Cf. {Deep}, {Dive}.] 1. To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again. The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. --Lev. iv. 6. [Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny deep. --Pope. While the prime swallow dips his wing. --Tennyson. 2. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. --Book of Common Prayer. Fuller. 3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [Poetic] A cold shuddering dew Dips me all o'er. --Milton. 4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair. He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons. --Dryden. 5. To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water. 6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Obs.] Live on the use and never dip thy lands. --Dryden. {Dipped candle}, a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick in melted tallow. {To dip snuff}, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and teeth. [Southern U. S.] {To dip the colors} (Naut.), to lower the colors and return them to place; -- a form of naval salute.
\Dip\, v. i. 1. To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink. The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out. --Coleridge. 2. To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part. Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot. --L'Estrange. 3. To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into. When I dipt into the future. --Tennyson. 4. To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into. ``Dipped into a multitude of books.'' --Macaulay. 5. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip. 6. To dip snuff. [Southern U.S.]
\Dip\, n. 1. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. ``The dip of oars in unison.'' --Glover. 2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch. 3. A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett. 4. A dipped candle. [Colloq.] --Marryat. {Dip of the horizon} (Astron.), the angular depression of the seen or visible horizon below the true or natural horizon; the angle at the eye of an observer between a horizontal line and a tangent drawn from the eye to the surface of the ocean. {Dip of the needle}, or {Magnetic dip}, the angle formed, in a vertical plane, by a freely suspended magnetic needle, or the line of magnetic force, with a horizontal line; -- called also {inclination}. {Dip of a stratum} (Geol.), its greatest angle of inclination to the horizon, or that of a line perpendicular to its direction or strike; -- called also the {pitch}.
\Dip\, n. 1. A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms. 2. In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation, which is dipped out from incisions in the trees; as, virgin dip (the runnings of the first year), yellow dip (the runnings of subsequent years). 3. (A["e]ronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.

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