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dip
has definitions from the fields of sport,food,law,criminal law,physics,color
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[ verb ] immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
Examples "dip the garment into the cleaning solution" "dip the brush into the paint" Used in print (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)Argiento made him lie_down on the bed , brought a pan of hot water , dipped some clean white linen cloth and applied it to extract the splinter . |
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[ verb ] (color) stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)Spectators in white crush textures dip toe and heel in smooth black , navy and taffy tan . Related terms |
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[ verb ] go down momentarily
Examples "Prices dipped" Used in print (Los Angeles Times,...)Volume dipped to 3.28 million shares from 3.98 million Monday . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (law,criminal law) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
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[ verb ] switch a car's headlights from a higher to a lower beam
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[ noun ] a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
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[ verb ] of candles; by dipping the wick into hot, liquid wax
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[ noun ] (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
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[ noun ] a brief immersion
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[ noun ] a depression in an otherwise level surface
Examples "there was a dip in the road" Related terms |
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[ noun ] a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
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[ noun ] a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
Examples "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index" "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" Related terms |
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[ verb ] scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
Examples "dip water out of a container" Related terms |
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