Dictionary Definition
dip
Noun
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
Verb
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"
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
see DIP
English
Etymology
dyppanNoun
- A lower section of a road or geological feature.
- There is a dip in the road ahead.
- A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
- A dip stick.
- A swim. (Usually a
short swim to refresh).
- I'm going for a dip before breakfast.
- colloquial dated A
pickpocket.
- 1906, Fred L. Boalt, "The
Snitcher", McClure's Magazine v.26, p.633
- The Moocher was a "dip" in a dilettante sort of way, and his particular graft was boarding street-cars with his papers and grabbing women's pocket-books.
- 1906, Fred L. Boalt, "The
Snitcher", McClure's Magazine v.26, p.633
- (chiefly US) A sauce for dipping.
- Hmmm, this onion dip is just scrumptious.
Derived terms
Translations
lower section of a road or geological feature
- Finnish: painauma
- German: Senke, Absenkung
tank or trough to kill parasites in cattle
- Finnish: kylpy
short swim to refresh
- Finnish: pulahdus
- German: Tauchen, Schwimmen, Baden
- Swedish: dopp
A sauce for dipping.
- German: Soße, Tunke, Dip
Verb
- To lower into a
liquid.
- Dip your biscuit into your tea.
- To lower a light's beam.
- Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.
- To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
- The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.
- To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
to lower into a liquid
to lower the beam
- Finnish: vaihtaa lähivaloille
- German: abblenden
Etymology
Common Turkic *tüpNoun
dipExtensive Definition
Dip has many meanings:
- Dip (dance move), a partner dance move
- Dip (Catalan myth), an evil demonic dog that drinks people's blood
- Dual
in-line package, an electronics package with pins lying along
two lines
- DIP switch, a number of electric switches in a dual in-line package
- Dip (food), a type of sauce into which food is dipped
- Dipping tobacco, colloquial name for American moist snuff
- An abbreviation of the word dipshit.
- Strike and
dip, indicates the orientation of a planar surface with respect
to the horizontal
- Dip slope is a geological term for a slope parallel to the dip.
- magnetic
dip, angle made with the horizontal at any point by the
Earth's magnetic field
- Dip circle, used to measure the angle between magnetic dip and the horizon
- The Dip, in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a mixture of volatile fluids used to kill animated characters.
- Dip (exercise), a type of strength training exercise.
- The dip Dialup IP driver
- Dependency inversion principle
DIP can refer to any of the following:
- Database of Interacting Proteins
- Debtor in possession
- Debtor-in-possession Financing
- Defective interfering particle
- De-inked pulp
- Dependency Inversion Principle
- Digital image processing
- Digital intellectual property
- Direct Income Payments, agricultural support payments in the European Union
- Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself
- Dissemination Information Package, used in digital libraries
- Distal interphalangeal joint
- Distributed IP NAT
- Draw Indexed Primitives, DirectX function
- Drug Intervention Program
- Drunk in public
- Dual in-line package
References
dip in German: Dip
dip in French: DIP
dip in Italian: DIP
dip in Dutch: DIP
dip in Japanese: DIP
dip in Portuguese: DIP
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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