:to plunge temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
:to raise or take up by a bailing, scooping, or ladling action: to dip water out of a boat; to dip ice cream from a container.
:to lower and raise: to dip a flag in salutation.
:to immerse in a solution to destroy germs, parasites, or the like.
:to make by repeatedly plunging a wick into melted tallow or wax.
:Nautical. to lower and rehoist when coming about in tacking.
Like many of us who just want to go for a dip on a hot afternoon, he created the idea when looking to cool off on a hot summer day.
The dip follows thirteen quarters of positive but low growth rates.
The dip in his usage rate has also tracked with James’ scoring and effective field-goal percentage.
The S&P 500, a benchmark that tracks 500 large US-listed stocks, is back to its January levels after a big dip around the time that Covid-19 first hit the US.
At each cycle the deposited CNTs are fixed in place, and the next dip has the same rapid deposition rate as a freshly-soaked wafer.
These brave souls took an icy dip in the ocean to ring in 2015 and raise money for charity.
Kirkman does dip into metaphor here, as telephones are a symbol of our connection with one another.
It was a slight dip in the demo or a slight dip in the total audience.
In fact, 40 percent of adults will dip below the poverty line at some point in their lives.
Meathead spat another long stream of dip juice into the wedding china.
Thank you for nothing, Reginald; however, I shall certainly take a dip in the lucky-bag at the Castle.
to plunge into water or other liquid and emerge quickly: The boat dipped into the waves.
:to put the hand, a dipper, etc., down into a liquid or a container, especially in order to remove something: He dipped into the jar for an olive.
:to withdraw something, especially in small amounts: to dip into savings.
:to sink or drop down: The sun dipped below the horizon.
:to incline or slope downward: At that point the road dips into a valley.
:to decrease slightly or temporarily: Stock-market prices often dip on Fridays.
:to engage slightly in a subject: to dip into astronomy.
:to read here and there in a book, subject, or author's work: to dip into Plato.
:South Midland and Southern U.S. to take snuff.
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:the act of dipping.
:that which is taken up by dipping.
:a quantity taken up by dipping; the amount that a scoop, ladle, dipper, etc., will hold.
:a scoop of ice cream.
:Chiefly Northern U.S. a liquid or soft substance into which something is dipped.
:a creamy mixture of savory foods for scooping with potato chips, crackers, and the like, often served as an hors d'oeuvre, especially with cocktails.
:a momentary lowering; a sinking down.
:a moderate or temporary decrease: a dip in stock-market prices.
:a downward extension, inclination, slope, or course.
:the amount of such extension.
:a hollow or depression in the land.
:a brief swim: She took a dip in the ocean and then sat on the beach for an hour.
:Geology, Mining. the downward inclination of a vein or stratum with reference to the horizontal.
:the angular amount by which the horizon lies below the level of the eye.
:Also called angle of dip, inclination, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination. the angle that a freely rotating magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon.
:a short, downward plunge, as of an airplane.
:a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick into melted tallow or wax.
:Gymnastics. an exercise on the parallel bars in which the elbows are bent until the chin is on a level with the bars, and then the body is elevated by straightening the arms.