Word Meaning

Meaning of dip

- To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
- To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
- 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; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.
- To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
- To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
- To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.
- To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
- To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.
- To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
- To dip snuff.
- The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
- A dipped candle.

Crossword clue for dip

- A brief swim
- Brief swim
- Brief swim in water
- Briefly immerse
- Decline
- Decline quick swim
- Detective Inspector and head of police have a quick swim
- Diplomats almost went for a short swim
- Dive into the guacamole or taramasalata
- Downturn in party food
- Drop
- Fall
- Fall-off
- Immerse
- Move downwards
- Policeman parking pickpocket
- Quick bath
- Random pick, lucky ...
- Salsa or guacamole
- Short swim
- Sink, dunk
- Slightly hollow
- Slope downwards
- Slump
- Trough
- turn in serendipity