dip

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. A lower section of a road or geological feature.
2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
3. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
4. A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
5. A dip stick.
6. A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
7. (colloquial) A pickpocket.
8. A sauce for dipping.
9. The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
10. A dipped candle.
11. A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
12. A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
13. The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
14. A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
15. Finely ground tobacco, consumed by placing a small amount between the lip and gum.
16. (colloquial) The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
17. Fried bread.
18. (informal) A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.

Verb

1. To lower into a liquid.
2. To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
3. (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
4. To lower a light's beam.
5. To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
6. To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
7. To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
8. To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
9. To immerse for baptism.
10. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
11. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
12. To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
13. To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
14. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
15. To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
16. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
17. To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
18. To briefly lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, usually in rhythm, as when singing or dancing.
19. (colloquial) To leave; to quit or abandon.
20. (colloquial) To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.

Συνώνυμα

soak

immerse

dunk

plunge

dive

sink

douse

souse

slope

fall

duck

🦆

sag

ladle

submerge

drop

depression

steep

inclination

decrease

wet

scoop

drench

dim

pickpocket

decline

magnetic dip

drown

put in water

immersion

slant

hollow

set

droop

magnetic inclination

lean

draw

cutpurse

descent

angle of dip

imprint

splash

tilt

lade

ebb

bath

🛀

infuse

dipping sauce

list

declivity

free fall

dip in

soak up

dipping

sluice

incline

countersink

dabble

submerse

drunk

dye

enumerate

failure

falloff

fetch

figure

foam

founder

froth

get

get down

get rid of

go down

gouge

hallow

harden

heeling

humiliation

imbed

imbue

immerge

impregnate

indenture

invoice

landing

leaning

let

let down

lour

lower

lowering

macerate

maceration

mordant

mortice

nosedive

number

🔢

numerate

obliquity

pass

percolate

pickle

pitch

plumb

posit

prolapse

puddle

pulling down

pump

put

put down

put in

rack

rake

recess

reckon

reduction

relegation

retrenchment

rick

rinse

rub

ruin

saturate

sauce

scoop up

season

sheathe

shelve

shelving

shower

🚿

sinking

skim

slack

slide

slip

slop

slosh

slump

snuff

soaking

sop

steel

steeping

submergence

subsidence

suds

swim

🏊

tally

tap

temper

toughen

trench

trim down

weakness

while away

work out

fetch water

lift out

oceanic abyss

reduction to the ranks

soak in water

drag into

insuccation

push down into the water

subergence

true dip

defervesce

ebb off

ebb out

amount of deflection

offset angle

pocket-picking

involve oneself slightly

read here and there in a book

study slightly

take out with a ladle

try tentatively

angle of declination

angle off

impregnation pickling

magnetic dip angle

flank of a hill

abasement

snus

abatement

abjection

abjectness

acclivity

administer

adversity

bank

🏦

baptise

baptize

bathe

bevel

bill

boil

boil down

bubbles

🫧

calculate

camber

cant

careen

celebrate

check

chit

christen

cipher

collapse

come down

compute

couching

count

🔢

cram

curtailment

cut

cypher

debouch

decay

declension

declination

decrepitude

deep

deflection

deflection angle

degradation

demotion

depress

derogation

destruction

deterioration

dig

diminishment

discharge

disrating

diving

downturn

draw up

drop-off

dropping

drunkard

ducking

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/dɪp/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

From Middle English dippen, from Old English dyppan, from Proto-West Germanic *duppjan, from Proto-Germanic *dupjaną; see *daupijaną (“to dip”). Related to deep.