(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.
Dipper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.
(n.) A small grebe; the dabchick.
(n.) The buffel duck.
(n.) The water ouzel (Cinolus aquaticus) of Europe.
(n.) The American dipper or ouzel (Cinclus Mexicanus).
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine the visual threshold, the intensity of light was reduced, from 100 Lx (starting point) by 10 Lx steps in each trial, until the subject made 10 non-response trials (i.e., no dipper approach within 1.0 sec after the light onset) among 10 trials.
(2) An equation, X = Y divided by 0.0016, allows estimation of absolute density (X) from a relative density index (Y, dipper count).
(3) Rats were trained to make various head movements to get water at a 3 x 3 array of holes, each with a recessed water-baited dipper.
(4) However, the formation of N-nitrosoproline in cigarette smokers and snuff dippers proves that smoke and snuff have a measurable potential for the endogenous formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines.
(5) Several clinical studies carried out in independent laboratories show that the target organ damage induced by hypertension (left ventricular hypertrophy, cerebrovascular lesions) is more severe in hypertensive "non dippers" than in "dippers", possibly because of the different duration of exposure to high BP levels over the 24 hours.
(6) There were differences between the different brands of snuff as regards the severity of the snuff dipper's lesion produced.
(7) The amounts of NNK and NNN in tobacco and tobacco smoke are high enough that their total estimated doses to long-term snuff-dippers or smokers are similar in magnitude to the total doses required to produce cancer in laboratory animals.
(8) Age, awake blood pressure, predicted whole blood viscosity, lipid profiles or quantity of sleep did not differ between the hypertensive dippers or non-dippers.
(9) A difference between the European robin and the dipper suggests that habitat may also influence background abundance.
(10) Water-deprived rats to respond for access to a water-filled dipper under a 20 response fixed-ratio schedule.
(11) With uncrossed conditions (Lum tests on Lum pedestals or Chr tests on Chr pedestals), we obtained the conventional dipper function, that is, the function of threshold test intensity was highly asymmetric about zero pedestal intensity, and strong pedestals induced strong masking.
(12) Keep your eyes peeled for Spawning salmon or sea trout, kingfishers or dippers, or even an otter or a seal in the river.
(13) The conceptual use of "snuff dippers' lesions" is recommended instead of e.g.
(14) The relation of the clinical picture of snuff dipper's lesions to the histopathological appearance was studied in 114 male dippers aged 20-88 years.
(15) In these patients, left ventricular mass seems to be greater in non-dippers than in dippers among women, but not in men.
(16) However, a second pattern of a dipper-type swallow occurred, in which part of the bolus initially is positioned beneath the anterior part of the tongue.
(17) Strong evidence suggests that the NNN and NNK in snuff are at least partially responsible for the excess of oral cancer among snuff dippers.
(18) "Reverse"-cigar smokers (who hold the burning end of cigars within the mouth), dippers (who place a mixture of Khaini-tobacco and slaked lime into the lower gingival groove) and users of tobacco-containing toothpaste (gudakhu) in Orissa, India, were examined for precancerous oral lesions, the frequency of micronucleated cells at 3 different intra-oral sites, and levels of tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNA) in the saliva.
(19) The apparatus consisted of an enclosure with two levers, two loudspeakers (in different locations), and a dipper feeder.
(20) Rats were trained on a multioperant baseline to respond on three different levers that resulted in either a food pellet, the presentation of a water dipper or an infusion of morphine.