[
US
/ˈdɪp/
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[ UK /dˈɪp/ ]
[ UK /dˈɪp/ ]
VERB
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dip into a liquid while eating
She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce -
scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
dip water out of a container -
dip into a liquid
He dipped into the pool -
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 - place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
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immerse in a disinfectant solution
dip the sheep - stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
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take a small amount from
I had to dip into my savings to buy him this present -
plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
He dipped into his pocket -
go down momentarily
Prices dipped -
lower briefly
She dipped her knee -
appear to move downward
The sun dipped below the horizon
The setting sun sank below the tree line -
slope downwards
Our property dips towards the river - switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
NOUN
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a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index
a dip in prices
when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall
there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery - a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
- tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
- a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
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a depression in an otherwise level surface
there was a dip in the road - a brief swim in water
- a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
- a brief immersion
How To Use dip In A Sentence
- It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- Does the plain, unsugared doughy type bagel look alike surpass the overly decorated with hundreds and thousands and pumped full of sweet chemicals with optional coating of chocolate (half dipped) Tescos Express doughnut win every time? Rabbit Stew. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- By this time, Dad and I had replaced the old dipole with a short Yagi array, horizontally polarized of course, and screwed to one of the crossbeams in the attic, so now we had three channels with excellent reception.
- He dipped his big toe in indelible ink to stamp the ballot paper.
- The statement affirmed the two countries' willingness to maintain their diplomatic, economic and military ties.
- The diploma course would offer remote access to course materials via the Internet's world wide web.
- There were weighty arguments against this theory, in particular the fact that people with great muscular strength and a welldeveloped panniculus adiposus were often attacked by the disease; and also that European crews, on a diet containing sufficient protein and fat, were not immune, even when they were given virtually no rice at all. Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture
- Once the more resistant gently dipping rocks of the Cotswolds have been removed, the underlying softer beds are easily eroded, so the Jurassic escarpments to the east of the Vales of Evesham and Gloucester retreated through time.
- As we dip thin slices of raw geoduck into seasoned soy, the clean, fresh sweetness of the clam seems to affirm these thoughts.
- Aim To prepare amylopectin anchored dipyridamole ( DIP ) liposome and to study its tissue distribution in mice.
