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/dˈɪpɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Dipping n.

The act or process of immersing.

The act of inclining downward.

The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.

The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.

The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff. (U.S.)

Dipping needle, a magnetic needle suspended at its center of gravity, and moving freely in a vertical plane, so as to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or inclination.

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Etymology of 'Dipping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dipping" Quotes from Famous Books

... the wise man's course, a road dipping between hedges to a hop garden and a wood and presently no doubt reaching an inn, a picturesque church, perhaps, a village and fresh company. The wise man's course. Mr. Polly saw himself going along it, and tried to see himself going along it with all the self-applause ...

— The History of Mr. Polly • H. G. Wells

... fir-plantation began, he heard his name called faintly from the house by a woman's voice that he knew to be his aunt Dorothy's. It came after him only once: 'Harry Richmond'; but he was soon out of hearing, beyond the park, among the hollows that run dipping for miles beside the great highroad toward London. Sometimes his father whistled to him, or held him high and nodded a salutation to him, as though they had just discovered one another; and his perpetual ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... dipping into her finger bowl and pushing back, "Madge always says it was that tip from my husband, a mere chance suggestion, ...

— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

... Elizabeth said, ceasing to admire the ring. "Since you've come home from boarding-school you don't like anything but the East." She began to stroke her puppy's head violently. Blair was silent; he was looking at a willow dipping its swaying finger-tips in ...

— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland

... village common, only the trees, for the most part, made avenues over it, running an arbitrary half-mile this way or that, with here and there a group dotted about in the open; and the brimming tank-pots were of India, and of nowhere else in the world. The sun was dipping behind the masts that showed where the straight border of the river ran, and the shadows of the pipals and the banyans were richly purple over the roads. The light struck on the stuccoed upper verandahs of the houses in Chowringhee which made behind ...

— The Path of a Star • Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)

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