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/dˈɪpɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Dipping n.

The act or process of immersing.

The act of inclining downward.

The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.

The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.

The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff. (U.S.)

Dipping needle, a magnetic needle suspended at its center of gravity, and moving freely in a vertical plane, so as to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or inclination.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dipping" Quotes from Famous Books

... several reasons; as, first, the parlour was a chilly room with horse-hair chairs and sofa, and only a coloured-paper screen in the grate, for my aunt did not allow a fire till the first of November; second, there was a rank smell of molten tallow in the house, for my aunt was dipping winter candles on frames in the back kitchen; third, I had reached a part in the Arabian Nights which tightened my breath and made me wish to leave off reading for very anxiousness of expectation. It was that point in the story of the 'Wonderful Lamp', where the false uncle ...

— Moonfleet • J. Meade Falkner

... buoyant kiss. She and Sally carried their breakfast into the dining room, where they established themselves comfortably at one end of the long table. While they ate, dipping their toast in the coffee, buttering and rebuttering it, they chattered as tirelessly as if they had been deprived of each other's society and confidence ...

— Martie the Unconquered • Kathleen Norris

... that, one fine morning in the middle of June, he was hanging out over the stern in his usual posture, and, having finished the letters L'HEU, took a look around on the brightness of the day before dipping his brush and starting again. The galley with her five consorts lay in the Royal Basin under the citadel, and a mile in from the open sea, towards which the long line of the pier extended, its tall forts dominating ...

— The Blue Pavilions • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... found Mrs. Curtis on a little balcony that opened off her private sitting-room. The piazza overlooked the waters of the small bay. It was a wonderful summer afternoon; white clouds were rioting everywhere in the clear, blue sky; the water was astir with white-masted boats, dipping their sails toward the waves like the flapping wings ...

— Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid • Amy D. V. Chalmers

... father's land extending to the eastern cliffs, and considered barren by him, but rich with a certain beauty of its own, the beauty of open spaces which rest and relieve the mind; and of immensity in the shining sea-line beyond the cliffs, and the arching vault of the sky overhead dipping down to encircle the earth; and of colour for all moods, from the vividest green of grass and yellow of gorse to the amethyst ling, and the browns with which the waning year tipped every bush and ...

— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand

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