Definitions for dipt
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IPA: /dɪpt/
Dipt is a 4 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 34 anagrams from letters in dipt (dipt).
Definitions for dipt
noun
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the act of dipping.
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that which is taken up by dipping.
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a quantity taken up by dipping; the amount that a scoop, ladle, dipper, etc., will hold.
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a scoop of ice cream.
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Chiefly Northern U.S. a liquid or soft substance into which something is dipped.
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a creamy mixture of savory foods for scooping with potato chips, crackers, and the like, often served as an hors d'oeuvre, especially with cocktails.
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a momentary lowering; a sinking down.
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a moderate or temporary decrease:
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a downward extension, inclination, slope, or course.
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the amount of such extension.
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a hollow or depression in the land.
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a brief swim:
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Geology, Mining. the downward inclination of a vein or stratum with reference to the horizontal.
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the angular amount by which the horizon lies below the level of the eye.
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Also called angle of dip, inclination, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination. the angle that a freely rotating magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon.
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a short, downward plunge, as of an airplane.
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a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick into melted tallow or wax.
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Gymnastics. an exercise on the parallel bars in which the elbows are bent until the chin is on a level with the bars, and then the body is elevated by straightening the arms.
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Slang. a pickpocket.
verb
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a simple past tense of dip1 .
Idioms
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at the dip, Nautical. not fully raised; halfway up the halyard:
Compare close (def 75b).
verb (used with object)
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to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid:
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to raise or take up by a bailing, scooping, or ladling action:
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to lower and raise:
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to immerse (a sheep, hog, etc.) in a solution to destroy germs, parasites, or the like.
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to make (a candle) by repeatedly plunging a wick into melted tallow or wax.
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Nautical. to lower and rehoist (a yard of a lugsail) when coming about in tacking.
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Archaic. to baptize by immersion.
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Obsolete. to moisten or wet as if by immersion.
verb (used without object)
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to plunge into water or other liquid and emerge quickly:
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to put the hand, a dipper, etc., down into a liquid or a container, especially in order to remove something (often followed by in or into):
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to withdraw something, especially in small amounts (usually followed by in or into):
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to sink or drop down:
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to incline or slope downward:
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to decrease slightly or temporarily:
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to engage slightly in a subject (often followed by in or into):
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to read here and there in a book, subject, or author's work (often followed by in or into):
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South Midland and Southern U.S. to take snuff.
Origin of dipt
before 1000; Middle English dippen (v.), Old English dyppan; akin to German taufen to baptize, and to deep
Examples for dipt
It should be dipt in boiling water, squeezed dry, and floured, when to be used.
First one, then the other, dipt his hands into the fiercely-boiling water, lifting some up and pouring it over the wrist.
Nay, I doubt whether he would discover any vainglorious complacence in his colors, though "Iris" herself "dipt the woof."
No angel, but a dearer being all dipt in angel instincts, breathing Paradise.
Aurelian intends more and worse than he has spoken; and already has he dipt his hand in blood!'
For this reason it is proper that linen cloths, dipt in very cold water, be laid over the receiver, and frequently shifted.
It is an arrow pointed with the diamond of wit, dipt in the oil of kindness, that wounds but to heal.
Nay, I doubt whether he would discover any vain-glorious complacence in his colours, though "Iris" herself "dipt the woof."
At one moment I saw the avenue of lit green, at another she was dipt in it.
dipt in the Hydra's gall, His arrows slightest wound is death to all.