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Defenition of the word dip

    • Defenition of the word dip

      • To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink, to loewe, to decrease
      • switch a car's headlights from a higher to a lower beam
      • a brief immersion
      • tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
      • a depression in an otherwise level surface; "there was a dip in the road"
      • stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
      • go down momentarily; "Prices dipped"
      • of candles; by dipping the wick into hot, liquid wax
      • slope downwards; "Our property dips towards the river"
      • lower briefly; "She dipped her knee"
      • (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
      • dip into a liquid: "He dipped into the pool"
      • a brief swim in water
      • sink; "The sun dipped below the horizon"
      • dip into a liquid while eating; as of bread in a soup or sauce
      • immerse into a liquid; "dunk the bread into the soup"
      • a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
      • a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
      • a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
      • 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"
      • dip into a liquid while eating; "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce"
      • scoop up by plunging one''s hand or a ladle below the surface; "dip water out of a container"
      • 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"
      • immerse in a disinfectant solution; "dip the sheep"
      • dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool"
      • appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line"
      • switch (a car''s headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
      • a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
      • a depression in an otherwise level surface
      • go down momentarily
      • dip into a liquid while eating
      • scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
      • immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
      • plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
      • immerse in a disinfectant solution
      • place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
      • dip into a liquid
      • slope downwards
      • appear to move downward
      • lower briefly
      • switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
      • take a small amount from

    Synonyms for the word dip

      • angle of dip
      • cutpurse
      • dim
      • douse
      • duck
      • dunk
      • inclination
      • magnetic dip
      • magnetic inclination
      • pickpocket
      • plunge
      • sink
      • souse

    Hyponyms for the word dip

      • bean dip
      • cheese dip
      • clam dip
      • correction
      • dabble
      • dip
      • douse
      • duck
      • guacamole
      • sop
      • subside
      • voltage drop

    Hypernyms for the word dip

      • angle
      • bring down
      • candle
      • change intensity
      • condiment
      • create from raw material
      • create from raw stuff
      • decline
      • decrease
      • decrement
      • depression
      • dip
      • douse
      • draw
      • draw off
      • dunk
      • eat
      • get down
      • go down
      • gymnastic exercise
      • immerse
      • immersion
      • impression
      • imprint
      • incline
      • let down
      • lift out
      • lower
      • pitch
      • plunge
      • scoop
      • scoop out
      • scoop up
      • slope
      • souse
      • stain
      • stealer
      • submergence
      • submerging
      • submersion
      • swim
      • swimming
      • take down
      • take out
      • take up
      • taper
      • thief
      • wane
      • wax light
      • withdraw

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