Crossword clues for dipping
dipping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dip \Dip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dippedor Dipt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dipping.] [OE. dippen, duppen, AS. dyppan; akin to Dan. dyppe, Sw. doppa, and to AS. d?pan to baptize, OS. d?pian, D. doopen, G. taufen, Sw. d["o]pa, Goth. daupjan, Lith. dubus deep, hollow, OSlav. dupl? hollow, and to E. dive. Cf. Deep, Dive.]
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To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
The priest shall dip his finger in the blood.
--Lev. iv. 6.[Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny deep.
--Pope.While the prime swallow dips his wing.
--Tennyson. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
--Book of Common Prayer. Fuller.-
To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [Poetic]
A cold shuddering dew Dips me all o'er.
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To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.
--Dryden. 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.
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To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Obs.]
Live on the use and never dip thy lands.
--Dryden.Dipped candle, a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick in melted tallow.
To dip snuff, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and teeth. [Southern U. S.]
To dip the colors (Naut.), to lower the colors and return them to place; -- a form of naval salute.
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 acids, etc.
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The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff. [U.S.]
Dipping needle, a magnetic needle suspended at its center of gravity, and moving freely in a vertical plane, so as to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or inclination.
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, etc. 5 (context US English) The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff. vb. (present participle of dip English)
WordNet
n. a depression in an otherwise level surface; "there was a dip in the road"
(physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon [syn: angle of dip, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination, inclination]
a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places [syn: pickpocket, cutpurse]
tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
a brief immersion
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"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall" [syn: drop, fall, free fall]
a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
a brief swim in water [syn: plunge]
a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
v. 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" [syn: dunk, souse, plunge, douse]
dip into a liquid while eating; "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce" [syn: dunk]
go down momentarily; "Prices dipped"
stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam [syn: dim]
lower briefly; "She dipped her knee"
appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line" [syn: sink]
slope downwards; "Our property dips towards the river"
dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool" [syn: douse, duck]
of candles; by dipping the wick into hot, liquid wax
immerse in a disinfectant solution; "dip the sheep"
scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface; "dip water out of a container"
See dip
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 the exercise known as the dip (exercise)
- Practicing the dance movement known as the dip (dance move)
- The practice of using dipping tobacco
- A brief session of swimming, as in skinny dipping
- An old term for baptism
- Bright dipping, a process of removing oxides from non-ferrous metals in chrome plating
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.