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dip

See also: DIP and dịp

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English dippen, from Old English dyppan, from Proto-West Germanic *duppjan, from Proto-Germanic *dupjaną; see *daupijaną (“to dip”). Related to deep.

Noun

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dip (countable and uncountable, plural dips)

  1. A lower section of a road or geological feature.
    There is a dip in the road ahead.
    • 1941 October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, in Railway Magazine, page 469:
      They were all doomed to be disappointed, however, for the errant engine decided at Stanley junction to spend the remainder of its crowded hour of freedom on the Aberdeen line, and finally came to rest, short of breath, in the dip between Ballathie and Cargill, near the bridge over the Tay.
    • 1960 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 177–178:
      After a signal check at Darley Dale, on the third run, the Pacific mounted the long 1 in 100 at a steady 53-54 m.p.h. and attained a brief 60 m.p.h. in the short dip before Monsal Dale.
  2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
  3. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
    • a. 1786, [Richard Glover], “Book the Seventh”, in [Mrs. Halsey], editor, The Athenaid, a Poem, […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], published 1787, →OCLC, page 184, lines 293–296:
      With his precious charge / Embark'd, Sinicus gently ſteers along; / The dip of oars in uniſon awake / Without alarming ſilence; […]
  4. A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
  5. A dip stick.
  6. A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
    I’m going for a dip before breakfast.
  7. (colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
    • 1906, Fred L. Boalt, "The Snitcher", McClure's Magazine v.26, p.633
      The Moocher was a "dip" in a dilettante sort of way, and his particular graft was boarding street-cars with his papers and grabbing women's pocket-books.
    • 1959, Frank Clune, Murders on Maunga-tapu, page 10:
      To steal a housewife's purse might mean that her children would have to go hungry; but what of that, if the flash young “dip” could gain admiration from his mates by boasting that he had “frisked a judy's cly and lifted a skinful of bunce”?
  8. A sauce for dipping.
    This onion dip is just scrumptious.
  9. (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
  10. (archaic) A dipped candle.
    • 1837, Frederick Marryat, Snarleyyow, or the Dog Fiend:
      by the feeble light of the dip, he beheld the pale, haggard face of Smallbones
  11. (dance) A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
  12. (bodybuilding) A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
  13. (turpentine industry) The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
  14. (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
  16. (uncountable) Finely ground tobacco, consumed by placing a small amount between the lip and gum.
    Synonyms: chewing tobacco, snuff
    • 2018 October 13, Alex Watt, “Everything I've Done That Made a Rich Old Lady with Opera Glasses Faint or a Monocle Fall Out of a Rich Guy's Eye”, in The New Yorker‎[1], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-18:
      Packed a lip full of beluga caviar after mistaking a tin for a can of dip and then spat the juice into an urn that I thought was a sombre spittoon.
  17. (birdwatching, colloquial) The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
    • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 124:
      I'd missed them by a couple of hours. This dip did not bode well for the Hudwit.
  18. (UK, dialect, uncountable, Birmingham) Fried bread.
    • 2020 May 29, Bocca della Verita (@BocaVerite), Twitter‎[2]:
      My Dad, God bless him, rarely cooked anything, but if he ever did he would make himself an egg banjo! Fried bread? Or ‘dip’?
  19. (finance, informal) A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
    buy the dips
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Verb

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dip (third-person singular simple present dips, present participle dipping, simple past and past participle dipped)

 
A churro dipped in chocolate
  1. (transitive) To lower into a liquid.
    Dip your biscuit into your tea.
    • 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
      He dipped the end of a towel in cold water and with it began to flick him on the face, his wife all the while holding her face between her hands and sobbing in a way that was heart breaking to hear.
  2. (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
  3. (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
  4. (transitive) To lower a light's beam.
    Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.
    • 1953 August, J. G. Click, “The Lötschberg Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 516:
      The engine's three headlights lit the way clearly, and when a train approached in the other direction, Driver Wegg dipped his lights; the other driver politely replying by doing the same.
  5. (transitive) 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.
  6. (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
    The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.
  7. (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
  8. 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.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  9. (transitive) To immerse for baptism.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Thomas Fuller, The Appeal of Iniured Innocence:
      new dipt Sectaries
    • c. 1722, Charles Wheatly, A rational illustration of the Book of Common Prayer:
      […] during the reigns of King James and King Charles I, there were but very few children dipped in the font.
  10. (transitive) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
  11. (intransitive) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
  12. (transitive) 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
  13. (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
  14. (transitive) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
  15. (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
  16. (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
    Strata of rock dip.
    • 2021 June 16, Dr David Turner, “The latest face of Gasworks Tunnel”, in RAIL, number 933, page 34, photo caption:
      The tunnel dips approximately 15 metres below Regents Canal and has a rising gradient at its northern end of 1-in-107.
  17. (transitive, dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
  18. (transitive) To briefly lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, usually in rhythm, as when singing or dancing.
  19. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave; to quit or abandon.
    When the time came, he dipped.
    Twelve people worked on the project, but by the end, most of them had dipped on the real work.
    • 2020 April 7, “Did Alotta”, Kai Bandz (lyrics), 1:07:
      Remember on my first lick, got lost in a house / Had to dip, bro, quick, before the dogs came out
  20. (birdwatching, colloquial) To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
    • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 124:
      I assured him that I'd been birding long enough to know that there were no guarantees with birds and I wouldn't have held it against him if I'd dipped.
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Etymology 2

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Back-formation from dippy.

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dip (plural dips)

  2. (informal) A foolish person.
    • 2001 January 1, Lisa Beth, “Question of Conversion”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated‎[3] (Usenet):
      A commander tells the soldiers, "We're going on a 5 mile run". And some dip asks, "Do we have to bring our kitbags?" At which point, the answer is yes. It wouldn't have been if the soldier hadn't asked the question.
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Etymology 3

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dip (plural dips)

  1. (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.

Etymology 4

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Shortening.

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dip (plural dips)

  1. (informal) A diplomat.
  2. (ABDL, informal, uncommon) A diaper; diap, dipe.
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Catalan

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Etymology

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From Andalusian Arabic ديب (ḏíb), from Arabic ذِئْب (ḏiʔb).

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dip m (plural dips)

  1. (mythology) A black vampiric hellhound associated with the town of Pratdip in the Camp de Tarragona.

Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English dip.

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dip m inan

  1. dip (sauce for dipping)

Declension

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Declension of dip (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative dip dipy
genitive dipu dipů
dative dipu dipům
accusative dip dipy
vocative dipe dipy
locative dipu dipech
instrumental dipem dipy

Further reading

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  • “dip”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
  • “dip” in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2025, slovnikcestiny.cz

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English dip.

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Noun

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dip m (plural dippen, diminutive dipje n)

  1. dip (sauce for dipping)
    Synonym: dipsaus

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dip m (plural dips, diminutive dipje n)

  1. (colloquial) a minor depression, a short-lived sadness
  2. a minor economic setback, no worse than a short, minor recession

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Mokilese

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *siba (“to cut, slice into pieces”)

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dip

  1. slice
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Polish

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dip

Etymology

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Borrowed from English dip.

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Noun

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dip m inan

  1. dip (sauce for dipping)

Declension

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Declension of dip
singular plural
nominative dip dipy
genitive dipu dipów
dative dipowi dipom
accusative dip dipy
instrumental dipem dipami
locative dipie dipach
vocative dipie dipy

Further reading

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  • dip in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Noun

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dip m (plural dips)

  1. dip (sauce for dipping)

Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دیب (dib), from Proto-Turkic *tǖp (“bottom; root”).

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dip (definite accusative dibi, plural dipler)

  1. bottom, deep
  2. ground

Declension

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Declension of dip
singular plural
nominative dip dipler
definite accusative dibi dipleri
dative dibe diplere
locative dipte diplerde
ablative dipten diplerden
genitive dibin diplerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular plural
1st singular dibim diplerim
2nd singular dibin diplerin
3rd singular dibi dipleri
1st plural dibimiz diplerimiz
2nd plural dibiniz dipleriniz
3rd plural dipleri dipleri
definite accusative
singular plural
1st singular dibimi diplerimi
2nd singular dibini diplerini
3rd singular dibini diplerini
1st plural dibimizi diplerimizi
2nd plural dibinizi diplerinizi
3rd plural diplerini diplerini
dative
singular plural
1st singular dibime diplerime
2nd singular dibine diplerine
3rd singular dibine diplerine
1st plural dibimize diplerimize
2nd plural dibinize diplerinize
3rd plural diplerine diplerine
locative
singular plural
1st singular dibimde diplerimde
2nd singular dibinde diplerinde
3rd singular dibinde diplerinde
1st plural dibimizde diplerimizde
2nd plural dibinizde diplerinizde
3rd plural diplerinde diplerinde
ablative
singular plural
1st singular dibimden diplerimden
2nd singular dibinden diplerinden
3rd singular dibinden diplerinden
1st plural dibimizden diplerimizden
2nd plural dibinizden diplerinizden
3rd plural diplerinden diplerinden
genitive
singular plural
1st singular dibimin diplerimin
2nd singular dibinin diplerinin
3rd singular dibinin diplerinin
1st plural dibimizin diplerimizin
2nd plural dibinizin diplerinizin
3rd plural diplerinin diplerinin

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