The Meaning of dip

• (v. t.) To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
• (v. t.) To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
• (v. t.) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
• (v. t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
• (v. t.) 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.
• (v. t.) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
• (v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
• (v. i.) To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.
• (v. i.) To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
• (v. i.) To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.
• (v. i.) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
• (v. i.) To dip snuff.
• (n.) The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
• (n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
• (n.) A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
• (n.) A dipped candle.

Synonyms

angle of dip , magnetic dip , magnetic inclination , inclination , pickpocket , cutpurse , drop , fall , free fall , plunge , dunk , souse , plunge , douse , dunk , dim , sink , douse , duck

Rhymes

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