To plunge or immerse temporarily in water or other liquid, or into something containing it; lower into and then raise from water or other liquid: as, to dip a person in baptism; to dip a boat's oars; to dip one's hands into water.To lower and raise as if in temporary immersion; hence, to perform by a downward and an upward movement: as, to dip a flag in salutation; the falcon dipped his wings for flight; to dip a courtesy.To raise or take up by a dipping action; lift by bailing or scooping: as, to dip water out of a boat; to dip out soup with a ladle; to dip up sand with a bucket.To immerse or submerge partly; plunge or sink to some extent into water; hence, to plunge, as a person, into anything that involves activity or effort, as difficulties or entanglements; engage; entangle.To engage as a pledge: generally used for the first mortgage.To plunge into; begin to sink into or be immersed in.To affect as if by immersion; moisten; wet.To plunge into water or other liquid and quickly emerge.To plunge one's finger or hand, or a dipper, ladle, or the like, into anything; make a transitory plunge or entrance; hence, to engage or interest one's self temporarily or to a slight extent: with in or into: as, to dip into speculation.To incline downward; sink, as if below the horizon: as, the magnetic needle dips: specifically, in geology, said of strata which are not horizontal.n. The act of dipping; immersion for a short time in water or other liquid; a plunge; a bath: as, the dip of the oars; a dip in the sea.n. That which is dipped; specifically, a candle made by dipping a wick repeatedly in melted tallow.n. The act of dipping up, as with a ladle or dipper: as, to take a dip from the bowl.n. Inclination downward; a sloping; a direction below a horizontal line; depression.n. Specifically— In geology, the angle which a stratum of rock makes with a horizontal plane. The dip is the complement of the hade or underlay. See these words.n. In mining: A heading driven to the dip in mines in which the beds of coal have a steep inclination. Also called dip-head. Rarely, a heading driven to the rise.n. In telegraphy, the distance from a point in a wire midway between two adjacent supports to the middle point of a straight line joining the points on these supports to which the wire is attachedn. A correction to be applied to the altitude of heavenly bodies observed at sea, varying according to the height of the observer's eye.n. Any liquid into which something is to be dipped.n. Specifically— Drawn butter, or milk thickened with flour, served with toast.n. A sauce served with puddings.n. A pickpocket.To submerge (an animal, as sheep, except the head) in a warm decoction of sulphur, tobacco, or the like, for the destruction of injurious parasites and germs of skin-diseases.In the manufacture of turpentine, to gather resin from boxes or cups.n. In ceramics, a preparation of colored slip for decorating pottery. See dip-ware.n. A small dumpling made of batter dropped into boiling water a spoonful at a time and boiled for about five minutes. Usually in the plural.n. Vertical distance below a given level.n. A depression or sink on the surface of the earth.n. Crude turpentine.n. Among stock-breeders, ‘tinge’ or ‘touch,’ that is, a slight strain, of another breed or variety.n. The depth to which anything is submerged, as a floating vessel, the floats or buckets of a paddle-wheel, etc.
