(superl.) Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished.
(superl.) Of obscure vision; not seeing clearly; hence, dull of apprehension; of weak perception; obtuse.
(v. t.) To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse.
(v. t.) To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
(v. i.) To grow dim.
Example Sentences:
(1) The birds were maintained at a constant temperature in, dim green light.
(2) There was good agreement between the survival of normally oxygenated cells in culture and bright cells from tumors and between hypoxic cells in culture and dim cells from tumors over a radiation dosage range of 2-5 Gray.
(3) The frequencies of the various anaphase patterns of bright and dim centromere regions were binomially distributed, indicating random distribution of chromatids with respect to the age of their DNA templates.
(4) It will be of particular importance to determine the amount and proportions of lymphokines secreted by T lymphocytes within the mucosal microenvironment, since properties of cells in the peripheral blood or even bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid are likely to reflect only dimly those of cells at this site.
(5) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
(6) If Summer had had a hard time singing Love To Love You (only when Moroder cleared the studio and dimmed the lights did she finally capture the voluptuous feel she was after), listening to the thing presented an even stiffer test.
(7) In this study, the problem of masking was minimized by measuring the timing of melatonin production under dim light conditions.
(8) 1,4-Dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-mannitol (DIM) was synthesized chemically from benzyl-alpha-D-mannopyranoside [Fleet et al (1984) J. Chem.
(9) A circadian rhythm of nociception was displayed by hamsters maintained for 30 days in constant dim light.
(10) The superior fascicle is whitish, dimmed and frequently thinner than the others and was classified under 4 patterns, according to its insertion.
(11) Concert posters that play music when you touch them have been discussed, while an artist has mixed the paint with oil in a lamp so that when the lamp is tilted, the light dims.
(12) Yet its outrage dims when the models – the same models who appear in the usual shows, mind – are walking on the runway in underwear as opposed to haute couture.
(13) In Moscow, the Russian foreign ministry took a dim view of this Guardian report on the Balkan events.
(14) A method for determining the spectral sensitivity of the different color mechanisms of the human eye uses the pattern of color names applied to small, brief, dim, monochromatic flashes.
(15) Individuals complaining of disturbed sleep that was verified by polysomnographic indices (objective DIMS) and a group with complaints of disturbed sleep in the absence of objective findings (subjective DIMS) were compared with normal sleepers.
(16) The pupillary response to 50 microliter of pilocarpine 0.0625% in darkness, dim light, and bright light was measured photographically in 15 healthy adults.
(17) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
(18) Women generally reported a significantly higher prevalence of both disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep (DIMS) and nightmares (NM)(p less than .001).
(19) Experimental conditions were as similar as possible to those used in a separate study in which psychophysical absolute thresholds were measured: large, dim, monochromatic spots 1 sec in duration were projected close to the right eye of alert, self-respiring goldfish.
(20) An extended source gives a dim erect image in the tract region that may come from the pattern of illumination radiating from the cut ends of the tracts.
Dip
Definition:
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) A J-shaped relationship with a dip at the middle SBP (140-149 mmHg) was recognized between treated SBP and CVD.
(2) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
(3) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
(4) The dip-strip home cultures are an effective way for screening or follow-up of patients with bacteriuria.
(5) A further 26 herds (iiii) which did not employ iodine-containing teat-dips, were also studied.
(6) According to a survey by Deloitte of corporate finance officers, there is a danger of a "triple-dip recession" within the next two years, with companies cutting back rather than expanding.
(7) a digital processing (DIP) method for assessing bone mass was developed on the basis of image analysis of roentgenograms.
(8) The shares fell 45% on his watch, with an especially big dip coming after the Autonomy deal was announced.
(9) It therefore seems inevitable that the region will have fallen back into a new recession in the third quarter And here's a summary of the data, showing that only two countries expanded: Ireland: 51.8 (2-month high) The Netherlands: 50.7 (13-month high) Germany: 47.4 (6-month high) Italy: 45.7 (6-month high) Austria: 45.1 (39-month low) Spain: 44.5 (6 month low) France: 42.7 (41-month low) Greece: 42.2 (4-month high) 9.07am BST EUROZONE RECESSION ALL BUT CERTAIN The eurozone's manufacturing sector shrank again in September, making a double-dip recession all but certain.
(10) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
(11) Viable spleen cells collected 7 days after irradiation were totally unresponsive to mitogenic or antigenic stimulation regardless of Cu-DIPS or vehicle treatment, suggesting that Cu-DIPS did not prevent radiation-induced damage to mature lymphocytes.
(12) Demographic factors could also be behind any dip in applications.
(13) Total UK ad spend hit a previous high of £13.1bn in 2007 before dipping to £11.3bn in 2009 following the credit crunch and ensuing recession.
(14) Measles was diagnosed by isolation of measles virus by cell culture, direct immunoperoxidase (DIP), direct immunofluorescence (DIF) and ELISA.
(15) Aliquots of saliva from 50 schoolchildren and 51 adults were tested by the dip-slide method and by conventional plating methods in MSB agar.
(16) With time and sufficient promotion by pH fluctuations or metal-complexing agents, DIP and LAS expand.
(17) The last few months have seen the former secretary of state dogged by a relentless focus over her use of a private email server , dipping favorabillity numbers and the rise of Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who is challenging her for the Democratic party’s nomination.
(18) Real wages are falling, household incomes have dipped and GDP per person is still some way off its pre-downturn peak.
(19) This is clinically significant and offers new possibilities for treatment of the so-called "morning dip."
(20) DIP was shown to inhibit phosphodiesterase (PDE) from both platelets and bovine coronary arteries.