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单词 dip
释义

dip

See also: DIP and dịp

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dĭp, IPA(key): /dɪp/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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 228751730, lines 293–296, page 184:
      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.
  15. (uncountable) The moist form of snuff tobacco.
  16. (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.
  17. (UK, dialect, uncountable, Birmingham) Fried bread.
    • 2020 May 29, Bocca della Verita (@BocaVerite), Twitter‎:
      My Dad, God bless him, rarely cooked anything, but if he ever did he would make himself an egg banjo! Fried bread? Or ‘dip’?
  18. (finance, informal) A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
    buy the dips
Derived terms
  • bunny dip
  • chili dip
  • dip candle
  • dip-coat
  • dip coat
  • dip net
  • dip netter
  • dip of the horizon
  • dip of the needle
  • dip pen
  • dip sector
  • dip stitch
  • dip tube
  • double dip
  • double-dip
  • farthing dip
  • French dip
  • hip dip
  • hot-dip
  • lab dip
  • line of dip
  • lucky dip
  • magnetic dip
  • polar bear dip
  • postprandial dip
  • seven-layer dip
  • sheep-dip
  • slippery dip
  • spinach dip
  • take a dip
  • Texas dip
  • toe-dip
Translations

Verb

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 688657546:
      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.
    • 1797–1798 (date written)​, [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], published 1798, OCLC 1071922407:
      The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out.
  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.
  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.
    • 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.
    • 1646 (indicated as 1645)​, John Milton, “Comuspassage=A cold shuddering dew / Dips me all o'er.”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], OCLC 606951673:
  11. (intransitive) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
    • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:
      He was […] dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.
  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.
    • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], OCLC 228727523:
      Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot.
  14. (transitive) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
    • 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745:
      Live on the use and never dip thy lands.
  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. To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
  19. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave.
    He dipped out of the room so fast.
  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.
Derived terms
  • bedip
  • dip a toe into
  • dip into
  • dip me in honey and throw me to the lesbians
  • dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
  • dip one's toe in
  • dip one's toe in the water
  • dip out
  • dipped candle
  • dipper
  • I'll be dipped
  • I'll be dipped in shit
  • redip
  • skinny dip
  • you don't dip your pen in company ink
Translations
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Etymology 2

Back-formation from dippy.

Noun

dip (plural dips)

  1. (informal) A foolish person.
Derived terms
  • dipshit

Noun

dip (plural dips)

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

Etymology 4

Shortening.

Noun

dip (plural dips)

  1. (informal) A diplomat.
  • dip locker

Anagrams

  • DPI, IDP, PDI, PID, dpi

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English dip.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪp/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: dip
  • Rhymes: -ɪp

Noun

dip m (plural dippen, diminutive dipje n)

  1. A dip (sauce for dipping).
    Synonym: dipsaus

Derived terms

  • discodip

Noun

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.

Derived terms

  • dinsdagdip

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English dip.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dip/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ip
  • Syllabification: dip

Noun

dip m inan

  1. dip (sauce for dipping)

Declension

Declension of dip
singularplural
nominativedipdipy
genitivedipudipów
dativedipowidipom
accusativedipdipy
instrumentaldipemdipami
locativedipiedipach
vocativedipiedipy

Further reading

  • dip in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • dip in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

dip m (plural dips)

  1. dip (sauce for dipping)

Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

dip (definite accusative dibi, plural dipler)

  1. bottom
  2. ground

Declension

Inflection
Nominativedip
Definite accusativedibi
SingularPlural
Nominativedipdipler
Definite accusativedibidipleri
Dativedibediplere
Locativediptediplerde
Ablativediptendiplerden
Genitivedibindiplerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
SingularPlural
1st singulardibimdiplerim
2nd singulardibindiplerin
3rd singulardibidipleri
1st pluraldibimizdiplerimiz
2nd pluraldibinizdipleriniz
3rd pluraldipleridipleri
Definite accusative
SingularPlural
1st singulardibimidiplerimi
2nd singulardibinidiplerini
3rd singulardibinidiplerini
1st pluraldibimizidiplerimizi
2nd pluraldibinizidiplerinizi
3rd pluraldiplerinidiplerini
Dative
SingularPlural
1st singulardibimediplerime
2nd singulardibinediplerine
3rd singulardibinediplerine
1st pluraldibimizediplerimize
2nd pluraldibinizediplerinize
3rd pluraldiplerinediplerine
Locative
SingularPlural
1st singulardibimdediplerimde
2nd singulardibindediplerinde
3rd singulardibindediplerinde
1st pluraldibimizdediplerimizde
2nd pluraldibinizdediplerinizde
3rd pluraldiplerindediplerinde
Ablative
SingularPlural
1st singulardibimdendiplerimden
2nd singulardibindendiplerinden
3rd singulardibindendiplerinden
1st pluraldibimizdendiplerimizden
2nd pluraldibinizdendiplerinizden
3rd pluraldiplerindendiplerinden
Genitive
SingularPlural
1st singulardibimindiplerimin
2nd singulardibinindiplerinin
3rd singulardibinindiplerinin
1st pluraldibimizindiplerimizin
2nd pluraldibinizindiplerinizin
3rd pluraldiplerinindiplerinin

Further reading

  • Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “dip”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
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