Dip

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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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