Definitions For Dip

noun

• 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 sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
• A brief immersion
• Tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
• A thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
• (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
• A depression in an otherwise level surface

verb

• Stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
• Go down momentarily
• Dip into a liquid while eating
• Scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
• Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
• Plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
• Immerse in a disinfectant solution
• Place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
• Dip into a liquid
• Slope downwards
• Appear to move downward
• Lower briefly
• Switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
• Take a small amount from
• To put (something) into a liquid and pull it out again quickly
• To move (something) into and out of something
• To lift (liquid) out from a container