(n.) The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
(n.) The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
(n.) The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff.
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.
Lipping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lip
Example Sentences:
(1) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
(2) Excessive lip protrusion was eliminated, and arch leveled.
(3) The authors report their experience of the reconstruction by z-plasty in cases of shortness of the lip frenum.
(4) With the teeth in occlusion, lip separation was reduced.
(5) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(6) Although 95% of the patients are satisfied, 60% have some impairment of sensation in the lower lip.
(7) On the basis of these studies, four of the neonates required a tongue-lip adhesion to stabilize the airway.
(8) Single doses of lip-AMB resulted in 88 to 100% survival by day 42.
(9) We found that in the patient's view an adequate result requires establishment of a proper lip sphincter--either by restoring muscular tone, or by creating an anatomical framework to which can be added either a motor unit or stabilization to aid the opposite intact muscle.
(10) Three hundred sixteen female patients with cancer of the larynx, pharynx, and mouth were examined and the following cancer sites were compared with respect to alcohol and tobacco consumption: oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, epilarynx, lip, and mouth.
(11) The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors.
(12) A rather unusual case of basal cell carcinoma of the labio-mental fold area is presented where it was possible to preserve the vermilion of the lower lip after wide excision.
(13) Lower lip perturbation duration was manipulated to yield two different load conditions.
(14) Transposition of prolabium not required in the definitive lip repair into the floor of the nose permits subsequent columellar construction.
(15) More and more patients are coming to cosmetic and dermatologic surgeons for augmentation of their lips.
(16) Warts were confined to the lips in 27 (56%) of 48 patients with meatal warts; in an additional 5 patients with meatal warts the warts arose from deep in the fossa navicularis and in 16 patients with meatal warts there were additional warts in the fossa navicularis invisible on clinical examination.
(17) The procedure consists of a Kirschner wire used as the means of traction on the remaining soft tissue of the lower lip, using the upper teeth or pyriform aperture bone as remote fixed points for tissue traction.
(18) Fifty per cent of the children with clefts of the palate and lip had deviated nasal septum producing nasal obstruction.
(19) An infant with a complete unilateral cleft of the lip and palate underwent maxillary expansion treatment using an oral orthopedic appliance.