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Action of a ladle
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dipping
Word definitions for dipping in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dipping \Dip"ping\, n. The act or process of immersing. The act of inclining downward. The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like. The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in ...
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An act or process of immersing. 2 The act of inclining downward. 3 The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like. 4 The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, especially brass, by dipping it in acids, ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Flag dipping refers to the movement of a flag as a signal. Dipping may also refer to: Treating sheep with a liquid formulation of insecticide and fungicide in a sheep dip Treating livestock with pesticides by walking them through a plunge dip Practicing ...
Usage examples of dipping.
Pleasaunce Style, dipping slightly at the knees before turning to lead Adele Mundy into the restaurant.
For there, side by side on the stone floor, are Agnes and the scullery-maid Janey, both with their backs to him and their arses in the air, crawling along on their hands and knees, dipping scrubbing-brushes by turns into a large pail of soapy water.
When the battleships pitched, gray water broke clear over their massive forecastles, and the dipping long guns vanished in spray.
Nobody could recall having seen bees fly this way, turning, wheeling, rising, dipping, like a huge kite or a magic carpet.
Its dipping, crescent browpiece gleamed, flashing in the darting firelight.
The deck tilted as the Bucephalas increased speed, her bows dipping in and out of the Atlantic swell.
His twitching nose told him that the burkha was even more heavily seasoned than normal, and he took just a small dipping of the sauce, beside the large heap of heavy egg noodles.
To write another word seemed beyond the power of human ingenuity, and for an hour or more Condy would sit scowling at the half-written page, gnawing his nails, scouring his hair, dipping his pen into the ink-well, and squaring himself to the sheet of paper, all to no purpose.
Japanese dish or its dipping sauce is flavored with soy or dashi or both.
It fell slowly, drifting back and forth, twirling and dipping out of the spotlight into dimness, then brightening again when the footlights caught it, and finally settling gently onto the pista.
The lines of the slope softened as they advanced, the icy wall dipping toward a slightly gentler inclination.
She had taken out a carton of milk and a packet of gingersnaps and was dipping each cookie into the milk before she took a bite.
Tumbrils and caissons, limbers and ambulances, wagons and more wagons, the horses and oxen dipping their heads with the effort of hauling their loads under the hot Spanish sun.
The man at the tiller waved his cap, and what appeared to be a slender lad sprang forward to put the dipping lugsails on the other tack.
Although the sun was already dipping below the horizon, the rough nonskid still held the heat of the day.