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Definition of 'Dip'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) dip
to plunge temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten, dye, or take up some of the liquid.

2.  dip
to take up by bailing or ladling:
to dip water out of a boat.

3.  dip
to lower and raise:
to dip a flag in salutation.

4.  dip
to immerse in a solution containing an insecticide or pesticide.

5.  dip
to make (a candle) by repeatedly plunging a wick into melted tallow or wax.

6.  dip
Chiefly Brit. to lower (headlights); dim.

7. (v.i.) dip
to plunge into a liquid and emerge quickly.

8.  dip
to reach down into a liquid or container so as to remove something (usu. fol. by into).

9.  dip
to withdraw something in small amounts:
to dip into one's savings.

10.  dip
to sink:
The sun dipped below the horizon.

11.  dip
to incline downward:
The road dips into a valley.

12.  dip
to decrease slightly or temporarily:
Stock-market prices often dip on Fridays.

13.  dip
to engage slightly in a subject:
to dip into astronomy.

14.  dip
to read here and there in a book or author's work (often fol. by into).

15. (n.) dip
the act of dipping.

16.  dip
something taken up by dipping.

17.  dip
a scoop of ice cream.

18.  dip
a substance into which something is dipped.

19.  dip
a creamy mixture of seasoned foods for scooping with a cracker, potato chip, etc., served as an appetizer.

20.  dip
a solution containing an insecticide or pesticide for use in dipping animals.

21.  dip
a momentary lowering.

22.  dip
a moderate or temporary decrease.

23.  dip
a downward inclination, slope, or course.

24.  dip
the amount of this.

25.  dip
a hollow or depression in the land.

26.  dip
a brief swim.

27.  dip
the downward inclination of a mineral vein or stratum with reference to the horizontal.

28.  dip
the angle that a freely rotating magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon.

29.  dip
a short downward plunge, as of an airplane.

30.  dip
Slang.

31. (Slang.) dip
a naive, foolish, or obnoxious person.

Etymology: (1930–35, Amer.; prob. back formation from dippy)

Definition of 'Dip'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) dip
a depression in an otherwise level surface
"there was a dip in the road"

2. (noun) dip, angle of dip, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination, inclination
(physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon

3. (noun) pickpocket, cutpurse, dip
a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places

4. (noun) dip
tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped

5. (noun) dip
a brief immersion

6. (noun) drop, dip, fall, free fall
a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
"a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "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. (noun) dip
a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow

8. (noun) dip, plunge
a brief swim in water

9. (verb) dip
a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms

10. (verb) dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse
immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
"dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint"

11. (verb) dunk, dip
dip into a liquid while eating
"She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce"

12. (verb) dip
go down momentarily
"Prices dipped"

13. (verb) dip
stain an object by immersing it in a liquid

14. (verb) dip
take a small amount from
"I had to dip into my savings to buy him this present"

15. (verb) dim, dip
switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam

16. (verb) dip
lower briefly
"She dipped her knee"

17. (verb) dip, sink
appear to move downward
"The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line"

18. (verb) dip
slope downwards
"Our property dips towards the river"

19. (verb) dip, douse, duck
dip into a liquid
"He dipped into the pool"

20. (verb) dip
place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax

21. (verb) dip
immerse in a disinfectant solution
"dip the sheep"

22. (verb) dip
plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
"He dipped into his pocket"

23. (verb) dip
scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
"dip water out of a container"

Definition of 'Dip'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) dip
to put into liquid for a short time; = immerse
Dip the bread into the sauce.

2.  dip
≠ rise
Interest rates have dipped.

3. (noun) dip
a decrease or reduction
a dip in temperature

4.  dip
a thick sauce
a spicy dip

5.  dip
the part of a surface lower than the rest
a dip in the road

6.  dip
a quick swim
to go for a dip

Definition of 'Dip'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Dip
the action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid

2. (noun) Dip
inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch

3. (noun) Dip
a liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon

4. (noun) Dip
a dipped candle

5. (verb) Dip
to plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again

6. (verb) Dip
to immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion

7. (verb) Dip
to wet, as if by immersing; to moisten

8. (verb) Dip
to plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair

9. (verb) Dip
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

10. (verb) Dip
to engage as a pledge; to mortgage

11. (verb) Dip
to immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink

12. (verb) Dip
to perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part

13. (verb) Dip
to pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into

14. (verb) Dip
to enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into

15. (verb) Dip
to incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip

16. (verb) Dip
to dip snuff

Definition of 'Dip'

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

1. Dip
In naval mine warfare, the amount by which a moored mine is carried beneath its set depth by a current or tidal stream acting on the mine casing and mooring.

Translation of 'Dip'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to lower into any liquid for a moment He dipped his bread in the soup.
Afrikaans: doop	Arabic: يَغْمِسُ	Bulgarian: топвaм
Brazilian: mergulhar	Czech: namočit, ponořit	German: eintauchen
Danish: dyppe	Greek: βουτώ κτ. σε υγρό	Spanish: mojar
Estonian: sisse pistma, kastma	Farsi: فرو بردن؛ غوطه دادن	Finnish: upottaa
French: tremper	Hebrew: לִטבּוֹל	Hindi: डुबाना
Croatian: umočiti	Hungarian: bemárt	Indonesian: mencelupkan
Icelandic: dÿfa í	Italian: intingere	Japanese: ちょっと浸す
Korean: 잠깐 담그다	Lithuanian: panardinti, pamerkti	Latvian: iemērkt; iegremdēt
Malay: celup	Dutch: dompelen	Norwegian: dyppe, senke (ned i)
Polish: zanurzać	Persian: فرو بردن؛ غوطه دادن	Pashto: غوټه كول (په او بو كې)، م
Portuguese: mergulhar	Romanian: aînmuia	Russian: макать
Slovak: namočiť	Slovenian: pomočiti	Serbian: umočiti
Swedish: doppa	Thai: จุ่ม	Turkish: batırmak, daldırmak
Taiwanese: 浸	Ukrainian: занурювати(ся); вмочати	Urdu: کسی مائع میں ہلکی سی ڈبکی
Vietnamese: nhúng, nhấn chìm	Chinese: 浸
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