Noun
a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms

Noun
a brief swim in water

Noun
a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow

Noun
a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "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"

Noun
a brief immersion

Noun
tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped

Noun
a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places

Noun
(physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon

Noun
a depression in an otherwise level surface; "there was a dip in the road"

Verb
stain an object by immersing it in a liquid

Verb
go down momentarily; "Prices dipped"

Verb
dip into a liquid while eating; "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce"

Verb
scoop up by plunging one''s hand or a ladle below the surface; "dip water out of a container"

Verb
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"

Verb
immerse in a disinfectant solution; "dip the sheep"

Verb
of candles; by dipping the wick into hot, liquid wax

Verb
dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool"

Verb
slope downwards; "Our property dips towards the river"

Verb
appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line"

Verb
lower briefly; "She dipped her knee"

Verb
switch (a car''s headlights) from a higher to a lower beam

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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.

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Dip

Dip , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dipped or Dipt (); p. pr. & vb. n. Dipping.] [OE. dippen, duppen, AS. dyppan; akin to Dan. dyppe, Sw. doppa, and to AS. dpan to baptize, OS. dpian, D. doopen, G. taufen, Sw. d'94pa, Goth. daupjan, Lith. dubus deep, hollow, OSlav. dupl hollow, and to E. dive. Cf. Deep, Dive.] 1. To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.

The priest shall dip his finger in the blood.

[Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny deep.

While the prime swallow dips his wing.

2. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. Book of Common Prayer. Fuller. 3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [Poetic]

A cold shuddering dew Dips me all o'er.

4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.

5. 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. 6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Obs.]

Live on the use and never dip thy lands.

Dipped candle, a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick in melted tallow. -- To dip snuff, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and teeth. [Southern U. S.] -- To dip the colors (Naut.), to lower the colors and return them to place; -- a form of naval salute.

Dip

Dip, v. i. 1. To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.

The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out.

2. To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.

Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot.

3. To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.

When I dipt into the future.

4. To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into. "Dipped into a multitude of books." Macaulay. 5. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip. 6. To dip snuff. [Southern U.S.]

Dip

Dip, n. 1. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. "The dip of oars in unison." Glover. 2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch. 3. A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett. 4. A dipped candle. [Colloq.] Marryat. Dip of the horizon (Astron.), the angular depression of the seen or visible horizon below the true or natural horizon; the angle at the eye of an observer between a horizontal line and a tangent drawn from the eye to the surface of the ocean. -- Dip of the needle, ∨ Magnetic dip, the angle formed, in a vertical plane, by a freely suspended magnetic needle, or the line of magnetic force, with a horizontal line; -- called also inclination. -- Dip of a stratum (Geol.), its greatest angle of inclination to the horizon, or that of a line perpendicular to its direction or strike; -- called also the pitch.

To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.

To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.

The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.