dip

Meaning

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.

Concepts

dip

soak

immerse

dunk

plunge

dive

sink

douse

souse

slope

fall

duck

ladle

drop

sag

submerge

decrease

drench

scoop

inclination

wet

steep

dim

pickpocket

depression

decline

descent

draw

slant

lean

droop

drown

immersion

angle of dip

cutpurse

magnetic dip

magnetic inclination

put in water

set

hollow

dipping sauce

list

incline

tilt

bath

lade

sluice

free fall

dabble

splash

submerse

declivity

dipping

infuse

ebb

imprint

countersink

dip in

soak up

drunk

abasement

abatement

abjection

abjectness

adversity

couching

curtailment

cut

decay

decrepitude

degradation

demotion

derogation

destruction

deterioration

diminishment

disrating

dropping

failure

humiliation

lowering

prolapse

pulling down

reduction

reduction to the ranks

relegation

retrenchment

ruin

sinking

subsidence

harden

season

steel

temper

toughen

get rid of

imbue

saturate

pump

bevel

weakness

fetch

get

sauce

push down into the water

slip

collapse

slump

slide

shower

slop

slosh

subergence

bathe

rinse

swim

mordant

pickle

true dip

lift out

declension

pocket-picking

take out with a ladle

try tentatively

involve oneself slightly

study slightly

read here and there in a book

skim

drag into

ducking

nosedive

founder

cant

careen

heeling

leaning

obliquity

shelving

angle of declination

angle off

declination

deflection angle

offset angle

amount of deflection

deflection

plumb

slack

insuccation

impregnate

impregnation pickling

macerate

maceration

steeping

magnetic dip angle

hallow

draw up

acclivity

flank of a hill

bank

camber

rake

baptise

baptize

christen

puddle

sop

boil down

calculate

cipher

come down

compute

count

cypher

debouch

defervesce

depress

discharge

ebb off

ebb out

enumerate

figure

get down

go down

let

let down

lour

lower

number

numerate

posit

put down

rack

reckon

tap

trim down

work out

bill

check

chit

downturn

drop-off

falloff

invoice

landing

tally

rick

deep

indenture

oceanic abyss

trench

gouge

dig

imbed

recess

sheathe

mortice

celebrate

pass

pitch

while away

put in

put

soak in water

soaking

scoop up

rub

snuff

snus

cram

submergence

diving

shelve

drunkard

immerge

fetch water

bubbles

foam

froth

suds

boil

dye

administer

percolate

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪp/

Etymology

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