dip: Meaning and Definition of

dip

1. to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
2. to raise or take up by a bailing, scooping, or ladling action: to dip water out of a boat; to dip ice cream from a container.
3. to lower and raise: to dip a flag in salutation.
4. to immerse (a sheep, hog, etc.) in a solution to destroy germs, parasites, or the like.
5. to make (a candle) by repeatedly plunging a wick into melted tallow or wax.
6. to lower and rehoist (a yard of a lugsail) when coming about in tacking.
7. to baptize by immersion.
8. to moisten or wet as if by immersion.

1. to plunge into water or other liquid and emerge quickly: The boat dipped into the waves.
2. to put the hand, a dipper, etc., down into a liquid or a container, esp. in order to remove something (often fol. by in or into): He dipped into the jar for an olive.
3. to withdraw something, esp. in small amounts (usually fol. by in or into): to dip into savings.
4. to sink or drop down: The sun dipped below the horizon.
5. to incline or slope downward: At that point the road dips into a valley.
6. to decrease slightly or temporarily: Stock-market prices often dip on Fridays.
7. to engage slightly in a subject (often fol. by in or into): to dip into astronomy.
8. to read here and there in a book, subject, or author's work (often fol. by in or into): to dip into Plato.
9. to take snuff.

1. the act of dipping.
2. that which is taken up by dipping.
3. a quantity taken up by dipping; the amount that a scoop, ladle, dipper, etc., will hold.
4. a scoop of ice cream.
5. a liquid or soft substance into which something is dipped.
6. a creamy mixture of savory foods for scooping with potato chips, crackers, and the like, often served as an hors d'oeuvre, esp. with cocktails.
7. a momentary lowering; a sinking down.
8. a moderate or temporary decrease: a dip in stock-market prices.
9. a downward extension, inclination, slope, or course.
10. the amount of such extension.
11. a hollow or depression in the land.
12. a brief swim: She took a dip in the ocean and then sat on the beach for an hour.
13. the downward inclination of a vein or stratum with reference to the horizontal.
14. the angular amount by which the horizon lies below the level of the eye.
15. Also calledthe angle that a freely rotating magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon.
16. a short, downward plunge, as of an airplane.
17. a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick into melted tallow or wax.
18. an exercise on the parallel bars in which the elbows are bent until the chin is on a level with the bars, and then the body is elevated by straightening the arms.
19. a pickpocket.
20. not fully raised; halfway up the halyard:Cf. close (def. 65b). an answering pennant flown at the dip.

dip

1. dipsomaniac.

dip

1. a naive, foolish, or obnoxious person.

DIP

1. a packaged chip that connects to a circuit board by means of pins.