Dipping

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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. d?pan to baptize, OS.
     d?pian, D. doopen, G. taufen, Sw. d["o]pa, 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.
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              The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. --Lev.
                                                    iv. 6.
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              [Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny
              deep.                                 --Pope.
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              While the prime swallow dips his wing. --Tennyson.
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     2. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. --Book of
        Common Prayer. Fuller.
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     3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [Poetic]
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              A cold shuddering dew
              Dips me all o'er.                     --Milton.
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     4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
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              He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     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.
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     6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Obs.]
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              Live on the use and never dip thy lands. --Dryden.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dipping \Dip"ping\, n.
     1. The act or process of immersing.
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     2. The act of inclining downward.
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     3. The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper,
        ladle, or the like.
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     4. The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or
        metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
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     5. The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums
        with a stick or brush dipped in snuff. [U.S.]
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     {Dipping needle}, a magnetic needle suspended at its center
        of gravity, and moving freely in a vertical plane, so as
        to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or
        inclination.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dip
       n 1: a depression in an otherwise level surface; "there was a dip
            in the road"
       2: (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the
          plane of the horizon [syn: {angle of dip}, {magnetic dip},
           {magnetic inclination}, {inclination}]
       3: a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in
          public places [syn: {pickpocket}, {cutpurse}]
       4: tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are
          dipped
       5: a brief immersion
       6: 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" [syn: {drop}, {fall}, {free fall}]
       7: a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax
          or tallow
       8: a brief swim in water [syn: {plunge}]
       9: a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body
          is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the
          arms
       v 1: 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" [syn: {dunk}, {souse}, {plunge},
             {douse}]
       2: dip into a liquid while eating; "She dunked the piece of
          bread in the sauce" [syn: {dunk}]
       3: go down momentarily; "Prices dipped"
       4: stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
       5: switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
          [syn: {dim}]
       6: lower briefly; "She dipped her knee"
       7: appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon";
          "The setting sun sank below the tree line" [syn: {sink}]
       8: slope downwards; "Our property dips towards the river"
       9: dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool" [syn: {douse},
          {duck}]
       10: of candles; by dipping the wick into hot, liquid wax
       11: immerse in a disinfectant solution; "dip the sheep"
       12: scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the
           surface; "dip water out of a container"
       [also: {dipping}, {dipped}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dipping
       See {dip}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "dipping":
     baptism, burial, declined, declining, declivate, declivitous,
     declivous, descending, dip, dousing, downgrade, downhill, dropping,
     duck, ducking, dunking, engulfment, falling, immergence, immersion,
     inundation, sinking, souse, sousing, submergence, submersion