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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

... I tell you because you ain't liable to go around spreading the news. There's a horse saddled in the dip back of the hill crest. ...

— Crooked Trails and Straight • William MacLeod Raine

... might have closely counselled, wound in and out with his ideas. Sensible of capacity, she confessed to the having been morally subdued, physically as well; swept onward; and she was arrested now by an accident, like a waif of the river-floods by the dip of a branch. Time that it should be! But was not Mr. Durance, inveighing against the favoured system for the education of women, right when he declared them to be unfitted to speak an opinion on any matter external to the household or in a crisis of the household? ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... a grand crop of carrots, destined for winter food for his soft-eyed cow, tethered close at hand; and soon after came in sight of a massive, rough chimney-stack of granite, apparently level with the road. But this latter made a sudden dip down into a steep hollow, and there stood the comfortable-looking cottage inhabited by the old fisherman, with its goodly garden, cow-shed, and many ...

— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn

... seaward; the dip of the oar had a stealthy sound in the deserted dawning. They passed the public gardens and saw the sea widen and the morning quicken. Islands swam up out of silver space, took form and colour, and there between the islands he saw the girl. She had gotten another oar from Giuseppe and ...

— The Lovely Lady • Mary Austin

... said I, "let us investigate Holborn, and dip into St. Giles's, and then find our way into some more known corner of ...

— Pelham, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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