Dip

[dɪp]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms.

(noun.) a brief swim in water.

(noun.) a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow.

(noun.) a brief immersion.

(noun.) tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped.

(noun.) (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon.

(noun.) a depression in an otherwise level surface; 'there was a dip in the road'.

(verb.) stain an object by immersing it in a liquid.

(verb.) go down momentarily; 'Prices dipped'.

(verb.) place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax.

(verb.) dip into a liquid; 'He dipped into the pool'.

(verb.) slope downwards; 'Our property dips towards the river'.

(verb.) appear to move downward; 'The sun dipped below the horizon'; 'The setting sun sank below the tree line'.

(verb.) lower briefly; 'She dipped her knee'.

(verb.) plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container; 'He dipped into his pocket'.

(verb.) immerse in a disinfectant solution; 'dip the sheep'.

(verb.) scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface; 'dip water out of a container'.

(verb.) take a small amount from; 'I had to dip into my savings to buy him this present'.

安娜贝尔整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.

(v. t.) To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.

(v. t.) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.

(v. t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

(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.

(v. t.) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.

(v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.

(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.

(v. i.) To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.

(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.

(v. i.) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.

(v. i.) To dip snuff.

(n.) The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.

(n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.

(n.) A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.

(n.) A dipped candle.

整理:泰丝

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1].Immerse, plunge, douse, souse.[2].Take out (with a ladle, cup, &c.).

v. n. [1].Thrust a ladle (cup, &c., into a liquid).[2].Incline, tend downward.[3].Engage cursorily, enter slightly.[4]. Dive, plunge, duck, pitch, immerse one's self.

整理:玛丽斯

同義詞及反義詞：

[See IMMERSE]

SYN:Declination, depression, devexity, slope

ANT:Elevation, ascent, acclivity, gradient

整理:莱克格斯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to dive or plunge into any liquid for a moment: to lower and raise again (as a flag): to baptise by immersion.—v.i. to sink: to enter slightly: to look cursorily: to incline downwards:—pr.p. dip′ping; pa.p. dipped.—n. inclination downwards: a sloping: (geol.) the angle a stratum of rock makes with a horizontal plane: a bath: a candle made by dipping a wick in tallow.—Dip of the horizon the angle of the horizon below the level of the eye; Dip of the needle the angle a balanced magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon measured by the Dipping needle or Compass.

編輯:史蒂夫