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dip
1 [dip]
verb, dipped or (Archaic
) dipt; dip⋅ping; noun –verb (used with object)
| 1. | to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket. |
| 2. | to raise or take up by a bailing, scooping, or ladling action: to dip water out of a boat; to dip ice cream from a container. |
| 3. | to lower and raise: to dip a flag in salutation. |
| 4. | to immerse (a sheep, hog, etc.) in a solution to destroy germs, parasites, or the like. |
| 5. | to make (a candle) by repeatedly plunging a wick into melted tallow or wax. |
| 6. | Nautical. to lower and rehoist (a yard of a lugsail) when coming about in tacking. |
| 7. | Archaic. to baptize by immersion. |
| 8. | Obsolete. to moisten or wet as if by immersion. |
–verb (used without object)
| 9. | to plunge into water or other liquid and emerge quickly: The boat dipped into the waves. |
| 10. | to put the hand, a dipper, etc., down into a liquid or a container, esp. in order to remove something (often fol. by in or into): He dipped into the jar for an olive. |
| 11. | to withdraw something, esp. in small amounts (usually fol. by in or into): to dip into savings. |
| 12. | to sink or drop down: The sun dipped below the horizon. |
| 13. | to incline or slope downward: At that point the road dips into a valley. |
| 14. | to decrease slightly or temporarily: Stock-market prices often dip on Fridays. |
| 15. | to engage slightly in a subject (often fol. by in or into): to dip into astronomy. |
| 16. | to read here and there in a book, subject, or author's work (often fol. by in or into): to dip into Plato. |
| 17. | South Midland and Southern U.S. to take snuff. |
–noun
—Idiom| 18. | the act of dipping. |
| 19. | that which is taken up by dipping. |
| 20. | a quantity taken up by dipping; the amount that a scoop, ladle, dipper, etc., will hold. |
| 21. | a scoop of ice cream. |
| 22. | Chiefly Northern U.S. a liquid or soft substance into which something is dipped. |
| 23. | a creamy mixture of savory foods for scooping with potato chips, crackers, and the like, often served as an hors d'oeuvre, esp. with cocktails. |
| 24. | a momentary lowering; a sinking down. |
| 25. | a moderate or temporary decrease: a dip in stock-market prices. |
| 26. | a downward extension, inclination, slope, or course. |
| 27. | the amount of such extension. |
| 28. | a hollow or depression in the land. |
| 29. | a brief swim: She took a dip in the ocean and then sat on the beach for an hour. |
| 30. | Geology, Mining. the downward inclination of a vein or stratum with reference to the horizontal. |
| 31. | the angular amount by which the horizon lies below the level of the eye. |
| 32. | Also called angle of dip, inclination, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination. the angle that a freely rotating magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon. |
| 33. | a short, downward plunge, as of an airplane. |
| 34. | a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick into melted tallow or wax. |
| 35. | Gymnastics. an exercise on the parallel bars in which the elbows are bent until the chin is on a level with the bars, and then the body is elevated by straightening the arms. |
| 36. | Slang. a pickpocket. |
| 37. | at the dip, Nautical. not fully raised; halfway up the halyard: an answering pennant flown at the dip. Compare close (def. 75b). |
Related forms:
dip⋅pa⋅ble, adjective, noun
Synonyms:
1. duck. Dip, immerse, plunge refer to putting something into liquid. To dip is to put down into a liquid quickly or partially and lift out again: to dip a finger into water to test the temperature. Immerse denotes a lowering into a liquid until covered by it: to immerse meat in salt water. Plunge adds a suggestion of force or suddenness to the action of dipping: to plunge a chicken into boiling water before stripping off the feathers. 2. scoop. 9. dive.
1. duck. Dip, immerse, plunge refer to putting something into liquid. To dip is to put down into a liquid quickly or partially and lift out again: to dip a finger into water to test the temperature. Immerse denotes a lowering into a liquid until covered by it: to immerse meat in salt water. Plunge adds a suggestion of force or suddenness to the action of dipping: to plunge a chicken into boiling water before stripping off the feathers. 2. scoop. 9. dive.
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Dip
Dip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dippedor 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
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
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
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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Language Translation for : Dip
Spanish:
mojar,
German:
eintauchen,
Japanese:
ちょっと浸す
dip
O.E. dyppan "immerse, baptize by immersion," from P.Gmc. *dupjanan, related to diepan "immerse, dip." Sense of "downward slope" is 1708. Meaning "sweet sauce for pudding, etc." first recorded 1825. Dipper, the popular U.S. name for the asterism known in Britain as The Plough or Charles' Wain, is attested from 1842.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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dip
- A small, short decline in a variable such as the price of a security or interest rates. A broker may advise a customer to accumulate a particular stock on dips. When the security begins declining in price, it is difficult to know if the decline is just a dip or if it is the initial step in a more substantial price reduction.
Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
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Main Entry: 1dip
Pronunciation: 'dip
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: dipped; dip·ping
: to immerse (as a sheepor hog) in an antiseptic or parasiticidal solution
Main Entry: 2dip
Function: noun
1 : a liquid preparation of an insecticide or parasiticide which is applied to animals by immersing them in it—see SHEEP-DIP
2 : a vat or tank in which dip is used
Main Entry: DIP
Function: abbreviation
distal interphalangeal
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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dip (dĭp) Pronunciation Key
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DIP
1. Dual In-line Package.
2. Document Image Processing.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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