What's the difference between dipping and quaquaversal?

Dipping


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dip
  • (n.) The act or process of immersing.
  • (n.) The act of inclining downward.
  • (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.

Quaquaversal


Definition:

  • (a.) Turning or dipping in any or every direction.
  • (a.) Dipping toward all points of the compass round a center, as beds of lava round a crater.

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