dipped
/dษชpt/IPA: /D IH1 P T/
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To lower into a liquid.
โDip your biscuit into your tea.โ
- 2
To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
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(of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
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To lower a light's beam.
โDip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.โ
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To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be โat the dip.โ A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
โโThe sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.โโ
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To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
โThe farmer is going to dip the cattle today.โ
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To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
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To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
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To immerse for baptism.
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To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
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To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
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To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
โto dip water from a boiler; to dip out waterโ
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To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
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To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
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To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
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To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
โStrata of rock dip.โ
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To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
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To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
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To leave.
โHe dipped out of the room so fast.โ
- 20
To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
- 1
That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
- 2
Of headlights: lowered.
- 3
Caught up in debt; mortgaged.
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