Dip

Noun

 * 1) A lower section of a road or geological feature.
 * There is a dip in the road ahead.
 * 1) A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
 * 2) A dip stick.
 * 3) A swim. (Usually a short swim to refresh).
 * I'm going for a dip before breakfast.
 * 1)  A pickpocket.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) A sauce for dipping.
 * Hmmm, this onion dip is just scrumptious.
 * 1)  The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.

Derived terms

 * lucky dip

Verb

 * 1)  To lower into a liquid.
 * Dip your biscuit into your tea.
 * 1) * 1897,, 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.
 * 1)   To decrease slightly.
 * 2)  To lower a light's beam.
 * Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.
 * 1)  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.”
 * 1)  To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
 * The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.
 * 1)  To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
 * 2) 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

 * dipper

Noun

 * 1) A foolish person.

Adjectives for Dip
invigorating; exhilarating; morning; tallow; convulsive; curious.

Adverbs for Dip
heavily; abnormally; invigoratingly; exhilaratingly; convulsively; curiously; continuously.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology 1
dyppan:

Noun

 * Bulgarian:, спускане
 * Finnish:


 * German: ,
 * Italian: avvallamento


 * Finnish:
 * Italian: vasca


 * Luhya:
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: öljytikku, tikku


 * German:, ,


 * Bulgarian: топване
 * Finnish:


 * German:, ,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: dippikastike
 * German:, ,


 * Hungarian: mártás

Verb

 * Bulgarian: топвам
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,


 * Russian: макать (makát'), макнуть (maknút') ; окунать (okunát') , окунуть (okunút')
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: blunön


 * Finnish: notkahtaa


 * Finnish: vaihtaa lähivaloille


 * German:


 * Finnish: laskea


 * Finnish: kylvettää


 * Finnish: tarkistaa öljyt


 * German:


 * Finnish: nuuskata, dipata


 * : 짚다 (jipda) (for a stick), 담그다 (damgeuda) (for anything)

Anagrams

 * DPI, dpi, IDP, PDI, PID

Etymology
From tüp, from.

Noun

 * 1) bottom
 * 2) ground