Thesaurus: dip

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1. v. t. To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
2. v. t. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
3. v. t. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
4. v. t. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
5. v. t. 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.
6. v. t. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
7. v. i. To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
8. v. i. To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.
9. v. i. To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
10. v. i. To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.
11. v. i. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
12. v. i. To dip snuff.
13. n. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
14. n. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
15. n. A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
16. n. A dipped candle.