DIP

Dip

A dip or dipping sauce is a common condiment for many types of food. Dips are used to add flavor or texture to a food, such as pita bread, dumplings, crackers, cut-up raw vegetables, seafood, cubed pieces of meat and cheese, potato chips, tortilla chips, and falafel. Unlike other sauces, instead of applying the sauce to the food, the food is typically put, dipped, or added into the dipping sauce . Dips are commonly used for finger foods, appetizers, and other easily held foods. Thick dips based on sour cream, crème fraiche, milk, yogurt, mayonnaise, soft cheese, or beans are a staple of American hors d'oeuvres and are thinner than spreads which ...

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dip

Noun

  1. A lower section of a road or geological feature.
    There is a dip in the road ahead.
  2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
  3. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
  4. A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
  5. A dip stick.
  6. A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
    I'm going for a dip before breakfast.
  7. A pickpocket.
  8. A sauce for dipping.
    This onion dip is just scrumptious.
  9. The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
  10. A dipped candle.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A foolish person.

Verb

  1. To lower into a liquid.
    Dip your biscuit into your tea.
  2. To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
  3. To decrease slightly.
  4. To lower a light's beam.
    Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.
  5. To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
    “The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.”
  6. To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
    The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.
  7. To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
  8. To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
  9. To immerse for baptism.
  10. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
  11. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
  12. To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
    to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water
  13. To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
  14. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
  15. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
    Strata of rock dip.


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