1. Verb
To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
2. Verb
To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
3. Verb
To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
4. Verb
To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
5. Verb
To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.
6. Verb
To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
7. Verb
To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
8. Verb
To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.
9. Verb
To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
10. Verb
To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.
11. Verb
To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
12. Verb
To dip snuff.
13. Noun
The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
14. Noun
Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
15. Noun
A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
16. Noun
A dipped candle.
17. Noun
a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
Vocabulary classified under Law
18. Noun
(physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
Vocabulary classified under Mathematics
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