dip
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
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dance
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Etymology: From Middle English dippen, from Old English dyppan, from Proto-West Germanic *duppjan, from Proto-Germanic *dupjaną; see *daupijaną (“to dip”). Related to deep.
Inflected forms:
form: dips
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dipped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A lower section of a road or geological feature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There is a dip in the road ahead.
They were all doomed to be disappointed, however, for the errant engine decided at Stanley junction to spend the remainder of its crowded hour of freedom on the Aberdeen line, and finally came to rest, short of breath, in the dip between Ballathie and Cargill, near the bridge over the Tay.
After a signal check at Darley Dale, on the third run, the Pacific mounted the long 1 in 100 at a steady 53-54 m.p.h. and attained a brief 60 m.p.h. in the short dip before Monsal Dale.
gloss: Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With his precious charge / Embark'd, Sinicus gently ſteers along; / The dip of oars in uniſon awake / Without alarming ſilence; […]
gloss: A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A dip stick.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I’m going for a dip before breakfast.
gloss: A pickpocket.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
dated
uncountable
examples: The Moocher was a "dip" in a dilettante sort of way, and his particular graft was boarding street-cars with his papers and grabbing women's pocket-books.
To steal a housewife's purse might mean that her children would have to go hungry; but what of that, if the flash young “dip” could gain admiration from his mates by boasting that he had “frisked a judy's cly and lifted a skinful of bunce”?
Skeet is one of the modern young breed of dip, no longer interested in the pocket watches of the old and inattentive, finding more challenge in lifting a watch right off a wrist in broad daylight […].
gloss: A sauce for dipping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This onion dip is just scrumptious.
gloss: The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A dipped candle.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: by the feeble light of the dip, he beheld the pale, haggard face of Smallbones
gloss: A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Finely ground tobacco, consumed by placing a small amount between the lip and gum.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Packed a lip full of beluga caviar after mistaking a tin for a can of dip and then spat the juice into an urn that I thought was a sombre spittoon.
gloss: The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: I'd missed them by a couple of hours. This dip did not bode well for the Hudwit.
gloss: Fried bread.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
uncountable
examples: My Dad, God bless him, rarely cooked anything, but if he ever did he would make himself an egg banjo! Fried bread? Or ‘dip’?
gloss: A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: buy the dips
gloss: To lower into a liquid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Dip your biscuit into your tea.
He dipped the end of a towel in cold water and with it began to flick him on the face, his wife all the while holding her face between her hands and sobbing in a way that was heart breaking to hear.
gloss: To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out.
gloss: (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To lower a light's beam.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.
The engine's three headlights lit the way clearly, and when a train approached in the other direction, Driver Wegg dipped his lights; the other driver politely replying by doing the same.
gloss: To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.
gloss: To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.
gloss: To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue in order to absorb the desired chemical constituents.
pos: verb
examples: He started dipping years ago.
gloss: To immerse for baptism.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: new dipt Sectaries
[…] during the reigns of King James and King Charles I, there were but very few children dipped in the font.
gloss: To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A cold shuddering dew / Dips me all o'er.
gloss: To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He was […] dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.
gloss: To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water
gloss: To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot.
gloss: To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Live on the use and never dip thy lands.
Aura. Have you a clear title to the thing you would sell? That heart of your's, I warrant, has been mortgaged over and over.
Mod. Humph! it has been a little dipped; but I have always honourably redeemed it, and was as free as air, till I beheld those eyes.
gloss: To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To sink, drop, or slope downwards.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The sun is dipping over the now dry and clear Cornish landscape, and is a conclusion to a good day.
gloss: To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Strata of rock dip.
The tunnel dips approximately 15 metres below Regents Canal and has a rising gradient at its northern end of 1-in-107.
gloss: To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To briefly lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, usually in rhythm, as when singing or dancing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To leave; to quit or abandon.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: When the time came, he dipped.
Twelve people worked on the project, but by the end, most of them had dipped on the real work.
Remember on my first lick, got lost in a house / Had to dip, bro, quick, before the dogs came out
gloss: To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
examples: I assured him that I'd been birding long enough to know that there were no guarantees with birds and I wouldn't have held it against him if I'd dipped.
Derived words: bean dip
bunny dip
buying the dip
chili dip
dip candle
dipcoat
dip-coat
dip coat
dipfuck
diphead
dip net
dip netter
dip of the horizon
dip of the needle
dip pen
dip sector
dipsector
dipstick
dip stitch
dip tube
dipwad
double-dip
double dip
downdip
elbow dip
farthing dip
French dip
hip dip
honey dip
hot-dip
impossible dip
lab dip
line of dip
lucky dip
magnetic dip
polar bear dip
postprandial dip
Russian dip
saveloy dip
seven-layer dip
sheep-dip
skydip
slippery dip
spinach dip
take a dip
Texas dip
tin dip
toe-dip
undip
updip
bedip
dip a toe into
dip into
dip me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians
dip me in honey and throw me to the lesbians
dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
dip one's toe in
dip one's toe in the water
dip one's wick
dip the wick
dip out
dippable
dipped candle
dipper
I'll be dipped
I'll be dipped in shit
redip
skinny dip
you don't dip your pen in company ink
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: غَمَس
roman: ḡamas
lang: Arabic
word: غَمَر
roman: ḡamar
lang: Assamese
word: জুবুৰিয়া
roman: zuburia
lang: Assamese
word: জুবুৰা
roman: zubura
lang: Azerbaijani
word: batırmaq
lang: Bulgarian
word: топвам
roman: topvam
lang: Catalan
word: sucar
lang: Catalan
word: banyar
lang: Chinese
word: 搵 /揾
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Teochew
word: 搵 /揾
roman: ung³
lang: Czech
word: ponořit
lang: Czech
word: namočit
lang: Danish
word: dyppe
lang: Esperanto
word: trempi
lang: Finnish
word: kastaa
lang: Finnish
word: dipata
lang: French
word: tremper
lang: French
word: baigner
lang: French
word: plonger
lang: German
word: tunken
lang: German
word: eintunken
lang: German
word: stippen
lang: German
word: eintauchen
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽
roman: daupjan
lang: Ancient Greek
word: βάπτω
roman: báptō
lang: Hawaiian
word: hoʻoluʻu
lang: Hindi
word: डुबाना
roman: ḍubānā
lang: Hungarian
word: márt
lang: Irish
word: tum
lang: Italian
word: inzuppare
lang: Italian
word: intingere
lang: Italian
word: immergere
lang: Ladino
word: untar
lang: Latin
word: mergō
lang: Latin
word: intingō
lang: Malay
word: celup
lang: Malay
word: cicah
lang: Malay
word: cecah
lang: Māori
word: whakaruku
lang: Norman
word: tremper
lang: Pacoh
word: tâuq
lang: Polish
word: zanurzyć
lang: Portuguese
word: mergulhar
lang: Portuguese
word: imergir
lang: Russian
word: мака́ть
roman: makátʹ
lang: Russian
word: макну́ть
roman: maknútʹ
lang: Russian
word: окуна́ть
roman: okunátʹ
lang: Russian
word: окуну́ть
roman: okunútʹ
lang: Spanish
word: mojar
lang: Spanish
word: pringar
lang: Spanish
word: ensopar
lang: Spanish
word: sopear
lang: Spanish
word: sopar
lang: Swedish
word: doppa
lang: Tamil
word: முக்கு
roman: mukku
lang: Turkish
word: banmak
lang: Turkish
word: bandırmak
lang: Vietnamese
word: chấm
lang: Vietnamese
word: nhúng
lang: Volapük
word: blunön
lang: Bulgarian
word: спускам
roman: spuskam
lang: Finnish
word: laskea
lang: Hebrew
word: הרכין דגל
roman: hirkin degel