dip

zambullida.

1. f. Acción y efecto de zambullir o zambullirse.

2. f. Esgr. p. us. Treta que consiste en dar una estocada en el pecho.
Fuente: Diccionario de la Real Academia Española

The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. --Lev. iv. 6.
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ry fowl now dip their pinions in the briny deep. --Pope.
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While the prime swallow dips his wing. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

2. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. --Book of Common Prayer. Fuller.
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3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. Poetic [1913 Webster]

A cold shuddering dew Dips me all o er. --Milton.
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4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair. [1913 Webster]

He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons. --Dryden.
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5. 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.
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6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. Obs. [1913 Webster]

Live on the use and never dip thy lands. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Dipped candle, a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick in melted tallow.

To dip snuff, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and teeth. [Southern U. S.]

To dip the colors (Naut.), to lower the colors and return them to place; -- a form of naval salute.
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Dip Dip, v. i. 1. To immerse one s self; to become plunged in a liquid; to
sink.
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The sun s rim dips; the stars rush out. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]

2. To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and
removing a part.
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Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot. --L Estrange.
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3. To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into. [1913 Webster]

When I dipt into the future. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

4. To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one s self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; --
followed by in or into. ``Dipped into a multitude of
books. --Macaulay.
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5. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
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6. To dip snuff. U.S. [1913 Webster]

Dip Dip, n. 1. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a
liquid. ``The dip of oars in unison. --Glover.
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2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
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3. a hollow or depression in a surface, especially in the ground.
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4. A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett.
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5. A dipped candle. Colloq. --Marryat. [1913 Webster]

6. A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and
his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and
then raises himself by straightening his arms.
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7. In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation, which is dipped out from incisions in the trees; as, virgin dip
(the runnings of the first year), yellow dip (the runnings
of subsequent years).
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8. (A"eronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting
into an airhole.
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9. a liquid, in which objects are soaked by dipping; e.g., a parasiticide or insecticide solution into which animals
are dipped (see {sheep-dip}).
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10. a sauce into which foods are dipped to enhance the flavor; e. g., an {onion dip} made from sour cream and
dried onions, into which potato chips are dipped.
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11. a pickpocket. slang [PJC]

Dip of the horizon (Astron.), the angular depression of the seen or visible horizon below the true or natural horizon;
the angle at the eye of an observer between a horizontal
line and a tangent drawn from the eye to the surface of
the ocean.

Dip of the needle, or Magnetic dip, the angle formed, in a vertical plane, by a freely suspended magnetic needle,
or the line of magnetic force, with a horizontal line; --
called also {inclination}.

Dip of a stratum (Geol.), its greatest angle of inclination to the horizon, or that of a line perpendicular to its
direction or strike; -- called also the {pitch}.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English