dipping

To lower into a liquid.

“Dip your biscuit into your tea.”

To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.

(of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.

To lower a light's beam.

“Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.”

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 “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.

““The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.””

To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.

“The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.”

To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.

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.

To immerse for baptism.

To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.

To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.

“to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water”

To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.

To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.

To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.

To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.

“Strata of rock dip.”

To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)

To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.

To leave.

“He dipped out of the room so fast.”

To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.

An 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, especially brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.

The use of dipping tobacco (moist snuff) in the mouth, usually between the lip and gum or cheek and gum in the lower or upper part of the mouth.

The act or fact of missing out on seeing a bird.