Dip(n.) The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
Dip(n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
Dip(n.) A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
Dip(n.) A dipped candle.
Dip(v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
Dip(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.
Dip(v. i.) To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
Dip(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.
Dip(v. i.) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
Dip(v. i.) To dip snuff.
Dip(v. t.) To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
Dip(v. t.) To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
Dip(v. t.) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
Dip(v. t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
Dip(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.
Dip(v. t.) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
Dipped(imp. & p. p.) of Dip
Dipping(n.) The act or process of immersing.
Dipping(n.) The act of inclining downward.
Dipping(n.) The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
Dipping(n.) The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
Dipping(n.) The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff.
Dipping(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dip
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