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Dip   /dɪp/   Listen
Dip

noun
1.
A depression in an otherwise level surface.
2.
(physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon.  Synonyms: angle of dip, inclination, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination.
3.
A thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places.  Synonyms: cutpurse, pickpocket.
4.
Tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped.
5.
A brief immersion.
6.
A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity.  Synonyms: drop, fall, free fall.  "There was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery" , "A dip in prices" , "When that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"
7.
A candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow.
8.
A brief swim in water.  Synonym: plunge.
9.
A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms.
verb
(past & past part. dipped or dipt; pres. part. dipping)
1.
Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate.  Synonyms: douse, dunk, plunge, souse.  "Dip the brush into the paint"
2.
Dip into a liquid while eating.  Synonym: dunk.
3.
Go down momentarily.
4.
Stain an object by immersing it in a liquid.
5.
Take a small amount from.
6.
Switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam.  Synonym: dim.
7.
Lower briefly.
8.
Appear to move downward.  Synonym: sink.  "The setting sun sank below the tree line"
9.
Slope downwards.
10.
Dip into a liquid.  Synonyms: douse, duck.
11.
Place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax.
12.
Immerse in a disinfectant solution.
13.
Plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container.
14.
Scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface.



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"Dip" Quotes from Famous Books



... think it was attracted by the granite; and that, had the needle been considerably elevated, it would not have shown more dip than at King George's Sound, where it was ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis • Matthew Flinders

... retain its soft and porous nature as it is when good and new. That softness and porousness may be retained in a very easy way. When you have put your soiled flannel through two good washings with soap in the usual way, dip it in clean boiling water, and finish cleaning it with that dipping. You will have it white ...
— Papers on Health • John Kirk

... melteth stones unkind, Which in this woodland wilderness Tames every beast and stills the stress Of hurrying waters. Would that I could find Her footprints upon field or grove! I should not then be envious of Jove. Thou cool stream rippling by, Where oft it pleased her to dip Her naked foot, how blest art thou! Ye branching trees on high, That spread your gnarled roots on the lip Of yonder hanging rock to drink heaven's dew! She often leaned on you, She who is my life's bliss! Thou ancient beech with moss o'ergrown, How do I envy thee thy ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds

... fight. We did nothing in that direction, but Kellas getting a message to attend a meeting at Brigade H.Q. as we went up The Gully, he brought up word that General de Lisle wished us to open another dressing station, as far as I could make out, in the slight dip immediately in front of our first firing line to which we are expected to creep out, and dig ourselves in, and wait for to-morrow's advance. I know the ground, and saw his sketch of the site, and pronounced it impossible. ...
— The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" • George Davidson

... in the place, time, and manner which the judges' sentence prescribes, what must it be in you, who have no warrant for interference but your own wills? In the name of Him who is all mercy, show mercy to this unhappy man, and do not dip your hands in his blood, nor rush into the very crime which ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott


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