dip
dip is a 3-letter English word with 39 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
- transitive verb. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
- transitive verb. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
- transitive verb. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
- intransitive verb. To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
- intransitive 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.
- intransitive verb. To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
- intransitive verb. To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.
- intransitive verb. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
- intransitive verb. To dip snuff.
- noun. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- noun. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- noun. A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
- noun. A dipped candle.
- noun. a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
- noun. a brief swim in water
- noun. a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
- noun. a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
"a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"
"there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"
- noun. a brief immersion
- noun. tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
- noun. a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
- noun. (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- noun. a depression in an otherwise level surface
"there was a dip in the road"
- verb. stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
- verb. go down momentarily
"Prices dipped"
- verb. dip into a liquid while eating
"She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce"
- verb. scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
"dip water out of a container"
- verb. immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
"dip the garment into the cleaning solution"
"dip the brush into the paint"
- verb. plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
"He dipped into his pocket"
- verb. immerse in a disinfectant solution
"dip the sheep"
- verb. place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
- verb. dip into a liquid
"He dipped into the pool"
- verb. slope downwards
"Our property dips towards the river"
- verb. appear to move downward
"The sun dipped below the horizon"
"The setting sun sank below the tree line"
- verb. lower briefly
"She dipped her knee"
- verb. switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- verb. take a small amount from
"I had to dip into my savings to buy him this present"
Synonyms
plunge, drop, fall, cutpurse, pickpocket, inclination, dunk, douse, souse, duck, sink, dim
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