dip /dip/

1. To immerse for a time
2. To lower
3. To lower and raise again (eg a flag)
4. To cause (headlights) to shine below the eye level of oncoming motorists
5. To baptize by immersion
6. To lift by dipping (usu with up)
7. To dye, clean or coat by dipping
8. To immerse (fruit, wood, etc) in a preservative solution
9. To immerse (esp sheep) in a chemical solution to prevent or clear infestation by insects, etc
10. To moisten, suffuse (Milton)
11. To involve in money difficulties (informal)
12. To mortgage
13. To pawn

1. To plunge and emerge
2. To go down briefly then up again
3. To sink
4. To reach down into something
5. To enter slightly
6. To fish by lowering the bait slightly into the water, then bobbing it gently on the surface
7. To look cursorily
8. To incline downwards
9. To steal by picking pockets (slang)
10. To practise snuff-dipping (qv under snuff¹)

1. The act of dipping
2. A hollow
3. A sag
4. That which is taken by dipping
5. An inclination downwards
6. A sloping
7. (of the headlights of a car, etc) the state of being dipped
8. The angle a stratum of rock makes with a horizontal plane (geology)
9. The angle between the horizontal and the earth's magnetic field
10. Magnetic dip
11. A bath
12. A short swim
13. A liquid (such as a chemical solution or a dye) in which anything is dipped (such as sheep, garments, etc)
14. A creamy mixture into which food may be dipped before being eaten
15. A candle made by dipping a wick in tallow
16. A pickpocket (slang)
17. A stupid or foolish person (N American slang)

dippˈer noun

1. Someone who or that which dips
2. A ladle
3. A bucket or scoop of a dredge or excavator
4. A device for directing motor car headlights upwards or downwards (also dipswitch)
5. A dipping bird (genus Cinclus), the water ouzel
6. The dabchick (US)
7. (with cap) the Plough (astronomy)
8. A pickpocket (slang)
9. A nickname for a Baptist, esp a Dunker

dippˈing noun

1. The action of the verb
2. Snuff-dipping

dipˈ-circle or dippˈing-needle noun

An instrument for determining magnetic dip

dipˈ-net noun

A long-handled net for dipping up fish

dipˈ-pipe noun

A pipe with submerged outlet, esp in gasworks

dipˈ-secˈtor noun

An instrument for determining the dip of the visible horizon

dipˈ-slope noun (geology)

A slope of ground coinciding with the dip of the rocks

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• bird's-nest soup
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