Dip

9 definitions found

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

  Magnetic \Mag*net"ic\, Magnetical \Mag*net"ic*al\, a. [L.
     magneticus: cf. F. magn['e]tique.]
     1. Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the
        magnet, or corresponding properties; as, a magnetic bar of
        iron; a magnetic needle.
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     2. Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, the earth's
        magnetism; as, the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian.
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     3. Capable of becoming a magnet; susceptible to magnetism;
        as, the magnetic metals.
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     4. Endowed with extraordinary personal power to excite the
        feelings and to win the affections; attractive; inducing
        attachment.
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              She that had all magnetic force alone. --Donne.
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     5. Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism,
        so called; hypnotic; as, a magnetic sleep. See
        {Magnetism}. [Archaic]
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     {Magnetic amplitude}, {attraction}, {dip}, {induction}, etc.
        See under {Amplitude}, {Attraction}, etc.
  
     {Magnetic battery}, a combination of bar or horseshoe magnets
        with the like poles adjacent, so as to act together with
        great power.
  
     {Magnetic compensator}, a contrivance connected with a ship's
        compass for compensating or neutralizing the effect of the
        iron of the ship upon the needle.
  
     {Magnetic curves}, curves indicating lines of magnetic force,
        as in the arrangement of iron filings between the poles of
        a powerful magnet.
  
     {Magnetic elements}.
        (a) (Chem. Physics) Those elements, as iron, nickel,
            cobalt, chromium, manganese, etc., which are capable
            or becoming magnetic.
        (b) (Physics) In respect to terrestrial magnetism, the
            declination, inclination, and intensity.
        (c) See under {Element}.
  
     {Magnetic fluid}, the hypothetical fluid whose existence was
        formerly assumed in the explanations of the phenomena of
        magnetism; -- no longer considered a meaningful concept.
        
  
     {Magnetic iron}, or {Magnetic iron ore}. (Min.) Same as
        {Magnetite}.
  
     {Magnetic needle}, a slender bar of steel, magnetized and
        suspended at its center on a sharp-pointed pivot, or by a
        delicate fiber, so that it may take freely the direction
        of the magnetic meridian. It constitutes the essential
        part of a compass, such as the mariner's and the
        surveyor's.
  
     {Magnetic poles}, the two points in the opposite polar
        regions of the earth at which the direction of the dipping
        needle is vertical.
  
     {Magnetic pyrites}. See {Pyrrhotite}.
  
     {Magnetic storm} (Terrestrial Physics), a disturbance of the
        earth's magnetic force characterized by great and sudden
        changes.
  
     {magnetic tape} (Electronics), a ribbon of plastic material
        to which is affixed a thin layer of powder of a material
        which can be magnetized, such as ferrite. Such tapes are
        used in various electronic devices to record fluctuating
        voltages, which can be used to represent sounds, images,
        or binary data. Devices such as audio casette recorders,
        videocasette recorders, and computer data storage devices
        use magnetic tape as an inexpensive medium to store data.
        Different magnetically susceptible materials are used in
        such tapes.
  
     {Magnetic telegraph}, a telegraph acting by means of a
        magnet. See {Telegraph}.
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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]:

  Dip \Dip\, n.
     1. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a
        liquid. "The dip of oars in unison." --Glover.
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     2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line;
        slope; pitch.
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     3. a hollow or depression in a surface, especially in the
        ground.
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     4. A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a
        ladle or spoon. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett.
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     5. A dipped candle. [Colloq.] --Marryat.
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     6. A gymnastic exercise on the 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.
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     7. In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation, which is
        dipped out from incisions in the trees; as, virgin dip
        (the runnings of the first year), yellow dip (the runnings
        of subsequent years).
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     8. (A["e]ronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb,
        usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting
        into an airhole.
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     9. a liquid, in which objects are soaked by dipping; e.g., a
        parasiticide or insecticide solution into which animals
        are dipped (see {sheep-dip}).
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     10. a sauce into which foods are dipped to enhance the
         flavor; e. g., an {onion dip} made from sour cream and
         dried onions, into which potato chips are dipped.
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     11. a {pickpocket}. [slang]
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     {Dip of the horizon} (Astron.), the angular depression of the
        seen or visible horizon below the true or natural horizon;
        the angle at the eye of an observer between a horizontal
        line and a tangent drawn from the eye to the surface of
        the ocean.
  
     {Dip of the needle}, or {Magnetic dip}, the angle formed, in
        a vertical plane, by a freely suspended magnetic needle,
        or the line of magnetic force, with a horizontal line; --
        called also {inclination}.
  
     {Dip of a stratum} (Geol.), its greatest angle of inclination
        to the horizon, or that of a line perpendicular to its
        direction or strike; -- called also the {pitch}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dip \Dip\, v. i.
     1. To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to
        sink.
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              The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out. --Coleridge.
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     2. To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a
        dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and
        removing a part.
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              Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot.
                                                    --L'Estrange.
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     3. To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
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              When I dipt into the future.          --Tennyson.
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     4. To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self
        desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; --
        followed by in or into. "Dipped into a multitude of
        books." --Macaulay.
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     5. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as,
        strata of rock dip.
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     6. To dip snuff. [Southern U.S.]
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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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  302 Moby Thesaurus words for "dip":
     acid bath, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, apply paint, armpit,
     ascend, asperge, attrition, bail, bank, baptism, baptize, basin,
     bath, bayberry candle, beat the drum, bedaub, bedizen, begild,
     besmear, bougie, bowl, brush on paint, bucket, burial, bury,
     calcimine, candle, cannon, cant, careen, cavity, christen, climb,
     coat, color, complexion, concave, concavity, corpse candle, cover,
     crab, crater, crypt, cup, curtailment, cut, cutpurse, cutting, dab,
     daub, decant, decline, declivity, decrease, decrement, deep-dye,
     deluge, depletion, depreciation, depression, derogation, descend,
     descent, detraction, diminution, dipping, dish, dish out, dish up,
     disparagement, distemper, diver, double-dye, douse, dousing,
     downgate, downgrade, downhill, downslide, downswing, downtrend,
     downturn, draw, drop, drown, duck, ducking, dunk, dunking, dye,
     emblazon, enamel, engild, engulf, engulfment, exchange colors,
     extraction, face, fall, fall away, fall off, falling-off, falloff,
     farthing dip, fast-dye, feather, fingersmith, fishtail,
     fixing bath, flag, flag down, flash, float, flood, flow on, fold,
     follicle, fork, fresco, funnel chest, gild, give a signal,
     give the nod, glance, glaze, gloss, go down, go downhill,
     go uphill, grade, grain, hail, hail and speak, half-mast, hang,
     hanging, hock, hoist a banner, hole, hollow, hollow shell, hue,
     illuminate, imbue, immerge, immergence, immerse, immersion,
     impairment, impignorate, incline, ingrain, inundate, inundation,
     japan, keel, kick, lacquer, lacuna, lade, ladle, lay on color,
     lean, leer, lessening, light-fingered gentry, list, loop,
     make a sign, mercury bath, merge, mobsman, mortgage, nod,
     nose-dive, nudge, overwhelm, paint, parget, pickpocket, pigment,
     pit, pitch, pledge, plow, plunge, plunge in water, pocket, poke,
     pop, porpoise, pour, pour on, prime, pull out, pull up, punch bowl,
     push down, rain, raise a cry, rake, reduction, remission,
     retraction, retreat, retrenchment, rise, roll, rush candle,
     rushlight, sag, salute, scoop, set, shade, shadow, sheep dip,
     sheer, shell, shellac, shelve, shortening, shovel, shrinkage,
     sideslip, sidle, sign, signal, signalize, sink, sinkage, sinkhole,
     sinking, sinus, skew, skid, slant, slip, slop on paint, slope,
     slue, sluice, slump, smear, socket, sound an alarm,
     sound the trumpet, souse, sousing, spade, speak, spin, spiral,
     spoon, spout, sprinkle, stain, stipple, stoop, stunt, submerge,
     submergence, submerse, submersion, swag, swamp, sway,
     swell-mobsman, tallow candle, tallow dip, taper, tilt, tinct,
     tincture, tinge, tint, tip, tone, touch, trough, truncation,
     tumble, undercoat, undulate, unfurl a flag, uprise, varnish, veer,
     votary candle, vug, wash, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand,
     wax candle, whelm, whitewash, wink, wire, yaw
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  DIP
       Dial-up Internet Protocol (Linux)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  DIP
       Dual In-line Package (IC, DRAM)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  DIP
       
          1. {Dual In-line Package}.
       
          2. {Document Image Processing}.