dip

dip

dip (third-person singular simple present dips, present participle dipping, simple past and past participle dipped)

1. (transitive) To lower into a liquid.

   Dip your biscuit into your tea.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     He dipped the end of a towel in cold water and with it began to flick him on the face, his wife all the while holding her face between her hands and sobbing in a way that was heart breaking to hear.

2. (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
3. (transitive) To lower a lights beam.

   Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.

4. (transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.

   “The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.”

5. (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.

   The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.

6. (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
7. 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.

dip (plural dips)

1. A lower section of a road or geological feature.

   There is a dip in the road ahead.

2. A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
3. A dip stick.
4. A swim. (Usually a short swim to refresh).

   Im going for a dip before breakfast.

5. (colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
   • 1906, Fred L. Boalt, ""The Snitcher"", McClures 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 womens pocket-books.

6. A sauce for dipping.

   Hmmm, this onion dip is just scrumptious.

7. (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.

immergere

affondare

	avvallamento
	lower section of a road or geological feature

	vasca
	tank or trough to kill parasites in cattle

abbassamento

abbassare

abbassarsi

ammollare

avvilimento

bagnare

depressione

immergersi

immersione

inclinazione

inzuppare

pendenza

salsa

scendere

sommergere

tuffare

tuffarsi

tuffo

Altri significati:

sauce for dipping

(transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.

A dip stick.

to use dipstick to check oil

(geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.

short swim to refresh

to lower the beam

A foolish person.

A swim. (Usually a short swim to refresh).

(transitive) To lower into a liquid.

A sauce for dipping.

A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.

(to) dip

(transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.

(transitive) To lower a light's beam.

A lower section of a road or geological feature.

dip stick

to lower into a liquid

(intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.

draw (water)

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.

(colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.

(transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.

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