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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

... bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone who might heal him. A friend, meeting him and learning what he wanted, said, "If you would be cured, take a piece of bread, and dip it in the blood from your wound, and go and give it to the Dog that bit you." The Man who had been bitten laughed at this advice and said, "Why? If I should do so, it would be as if I should beg every Dog in the ...

— Aesop's Fables • Aesop

... the neighbourhood. Once it has been seen it will be readily identified on future occasions, and the observer will not fail to notice how constant is the position which it preserves in the heavens. The other stars either rise or set, or, like the Great Bear, they dip down low in the north without actually setting, but the Pole Star exhibits no considerable changes. In summer or winter, by night or by day, the Pole Star is ever found in the same place—at least, ...

— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball

... about the landscape, changing its hues of green and gray to the more somber ones of blue or purple; just at the time when the indoor view of things is about to be made apparent only by the artificial beams of the tallow and dip. ...

— The Loyalist - A Story of the American Revolution • James Francis Barrett

... must come on silken wings, With bridal lights of diamond rings, Not foul with kitchen smirch, With tallow-dip for torch." ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... wondered whether it could be by intent that he stood bare-headed while she did it. Then her father climbed in, and the man at the station laughed as he said, "What's the odds, Harry, you don't spill the whole freight on the dip ...

— Alton of Somasco • Harold Bindloss

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