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dip
English
- 🔊 a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
- 🔊 a brief swim in water
- 🔊 a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
- 🔊 a brief immersion
- 🔊 tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
- 🔊 (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- 🔊 a depression in an otherwise level surface“there was a dip in the road”
- 🔊 a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity“a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index”
- 🔊 a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
- 🔊 stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
- 🔊 go down momentarily“Prices dipped”
- 🔊 scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface“dip water out of a container”
- 🔊 plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container“He dipped into his pocket”
- 🔊 immerse in a disinfectant solution“dip the sheep”
- 🔊 place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
- 🔊 dip into a liquid“He dipped into the pool”
- 🔊 slope downwards“Our property dips towards the river”
- 🔊 appear to move downward“The sun dipped below the horizon”
- 🔊 lower briefly“She dipped her knee”
- 🔊 take a small amount from“I had to dip into my savings to buy him this present”
- 🔊 dip into a liquid while eating“She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce”
- 🔊 immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate“dip the garment into the cleaning solution”
- 🔊 switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
Spanish
- 🔊 buzamiento dip
- 🔊 buzar to dip