dip

noun

1. Acronym of dual in-line package.
2. Acronym of dependency inversion principle.

verb

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

1. To lower into a liquid.

   “Dip your biscuit into your tea.”

   “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. To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.

   “The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out.”

3. (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
4. To lower a light's beam.

   “Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.”

   “The engine's three headlights lit the way clearly, and when a train approached in the other direction, Driver Wegg dipped his lights; the other driver politely replying by doing the same.”

5. 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. To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.

   “The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.”

7. 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 in order to absorb the desired chemical constituents.

   “He started dipping years ago.”

9. To immerse for baptism.

   “new dipt Sectaries”

   “[…] during the reigns of King James and King Charles I, there were but very few children dipped in the font.”

10. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.

    “A cold shuddering dew / Dips me all o'er.”

11. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

    “He was […] dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.”

12. 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. To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.

    “Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot.”

14. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.

    “Live on the use and never dip thy lands.”

    “Aura. Have you a clear title to the thing you would sell? That heart of your's, I warrant, has been mortgaged over and over. Mod. Humph! it has been a little dipped; but I have always honourably redeemed it, and was as free as air, till I beheld those eyes.”

15. To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
16. To sink, drop, or slope downwards.

    “The sun is dipping over the now dry and clear Cornish landscape, and is a conclusion to a good day.”

17. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.

    “Strata of rock dip.”

    “The tunnel dips approximately 15 metres below Regents Canal and has a rising gradient at its northern end of 1-in-107.”

18. To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
19. To briefly lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, usually in rhythm, as when singing or dancing.
20. To leave; to quit or abandon.

    “When the time came, he dipped.”

    “Twelve people worked on the project, but by the end, most of them had dipped on the real work.”

21. To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.

    “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.”