DIPPING
DIP
dip
(verb) stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
dip
(verb) go down momentarily; “Prices dipped”
dunk, dip
(verb) dip into a liquid while eating; “She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce”
dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse
(verb) 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”
dip
(verb) place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
dip, douse, duck
(verb) dip into a liquid; “He dipped into the pool”
dip
(verb) slope downwards; “Our property dips towards the river”
dip, sink
(verb) appear to move downward; “The sun dipped below the horizon”; “The setting sun sank below the tree line”
dip
(verb) lower briefly; “She dipped her knee”
dim, dip
(verb) switch (a car’s headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
dipping
present participle of dip
Hyponyms
• double-dipping
Noun
dipping (plural dippings)
An 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, especially brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
(US) The use of dipping tobacco (moist snuff) in the mouth, usually between the lip and gum or cheek and gum in the lower or upper part of the mouth.
(birdwatching) The act or fact of missing out on seeing a bird.
Source: Wiktionary
Dip"ping, n.
1. The act or process of immersing.
2. The act of inclining downward.
3. The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the
like.
4. The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware,
esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
5. 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.
DIP
Dip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dipped or Dipt (p. pr. & vb. n. Dipping.]
Etym: [OE. dippen, duppen, AS. dyppan; akin to Dan. dyppe, Sw. doppa,
and to AS. d to baptize, OS. d, D. doopen, G. taufen, Sw. döpa, 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, 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, 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition