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say it: dip
dip is a verb and noun meaning "immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate". It is pronounced /ˈdɪp/ — dip. It carries 23 recorded senses.
stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
“dip water out of a container”
a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
a brief immersion
a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
“a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index”
“there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery”
“a dip in prices”
“when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall”
a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dip come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.