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dip | a brief immersion | |
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dip | place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax | |
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plunge, dip | a brief swim in water | |
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drop, fall, dip, free fall | a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | |
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dip, dim | switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam | |
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sink, dip | appear to move downward | |
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dip, dunk | dip into a liquid while eating | |
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dip | stain an object by immersing it in a liquid | |
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douse, dip, duck | dip into a liquid | |
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dip | a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms | |
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dip | immerse in a disinfectant solution | |
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dip | scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface | |
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dip | a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow | |
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dip | slope downwards | |
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dip | take a small amount from | |
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inclination, dip, angle of dip, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination | [in physics] the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon | |
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dip, dunk, douse, souse, plunge | immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | |
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dip, pickpocket, cutpurse | a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | |
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dip | tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped | |
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dip | plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container | |
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dip | go down momentarily | |
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dip | lower briefly | |
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dip | a depression in an otherwise level surface |