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dipping
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dipping
(encz) | dipping,ponořování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Dipping
(gcide) | Dip \Dip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dippedor Dipt (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Dipping.] [OE. dippen, duppen, AS. dyppan; akin to
Dan. dyppe, Sw. doppa, and to AS. d?pan to baptize, OS.
d?pian, D. doopen, G. taufen, Sw. d["o]pa, Goth. daupjan,
Lith. dubus deep, hollow, OSlav. dupl? hollow, and to E.
dive. Cf. Deep, Dive.]
1. To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into
a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
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The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. --Lev.
iv. 6.
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[Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny
deep. --Pope.
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While the prime swallow dips his wing. --Tennyson.
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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]
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A cold shuddering dew
Dips me all o'er. --Milton.
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4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
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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.]
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Live on the use and never dip thy lands. --Dryden.
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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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Dipping
(gcide) | Dipping \Dip"ping\, n.
1. The act or process of immersing.
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2. The act of inclining downward.
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3. The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper,
ladle, or the like.
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4. The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or
metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
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5. The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums
with a stick or brush dipped in snuff. [U.S.]
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Dipping needle, a magnetic needle suspended at its center
of gravity, and moving freely in a vertical plane, so as
to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or
inclination.
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dipping
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double dipping
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skinny-dipping
(encz) | skinny-dipping,koupání bez plavek Rostislav Svoboda |
Dipping needle
(gcide) | Needle \Nee"dle\ (n[=e]"d'l), n. [OE. nedle, AS. n[=ae]dl; akin
to D. neald, OS. n[=a]dla, G. nadel, OHG. n[=a]dal,
n[=a]dala, Icel. n[=a]l, Sw. n[*a]l, Dan. naal, and also to
G. n[aum]hen to sew, OHG. n[=a]jan, L. nere to spin, Gr.
ne`ein, and perh. to E. snare: cf. Gael. & Ir. snathad
needle, Gael. snath thread, G. schnur string, cord.]
1. A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end,
with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.
--Chaucer.
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Note: In some needles (as for sewing machines) the eye is at
the pointed end, but in ordinary needles it is at the
blunt end.
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2. See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.
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3. A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle;
also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or
twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in
the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.
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4. (Bot.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine
trees. See Pinus.
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5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed
crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
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6. A hypodermic needle; a syringe fitted with a hypodermic
needle, used for injecting fluids into the body.
[Informal]
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7. An injection of medicine from a hypodermic needle; a shot.
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Dipping needle. See under Dipping.
Needle bar, the reciprocating bar to which the needle of a
sewing machine is attached.
Needle beam (Arch.), in shoring, the horizontal cross
timber which goes through the wall or a pier, and upon
which the weight of the wall rests, when a building is
shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part.
Needle furze (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western
Europe; the petty whin (Genista Anglica).
Needle gun, a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge
carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a
slender needle, or pin, into it. [archaic]
Needle loom (Weaving), a loom in which the weft thread is
carried through the shed by a long eye-pointed needle
instead of by a shuttle.
Needle ore (Min.), acicular bismuth; a sulphide of bismuth,
lead, and copper occuring in acicular crystals; -- called
also aikinite.
Needle shell (Zool.), a sea urchin.
Needle spar (Min.), aragonite.
Needle telegraph, a telegraph in which the signals are
given by the deflections of a magnetic needle to the right
or to the left of a certain position.
Sea needle (Zool.), the garfish.
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1. The act or process of immersing.
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2. The act of inclining downward.
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3. The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper,
ladle, or the like.
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4. The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or
metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
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5. The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums
with a stick or brush dipped in snuff. [U.S.]
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Dipping needle, a magnetic needle suspended at its center
of gravity, and moving freely in a vertical plane, so as
to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or
inclination.
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Snuff dipping
(gcide) | Snuff \Snuff\, n.
1. The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.
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2. Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the
nose; also, the amount taken at once.
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3. Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a
snuffing of the nose. [Obs.]
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Snuff dipping. See Dipping, n., 5.
Snuff taker, one who uses snuff by inhaling it through the
nose.
To take it in snuff, to be angry or offended. --Shak.
Up to snuff, not likely to be imposed upon; knowing; acute.
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double dipping
(wn) | double dipping
n 1: two incomes received from the same source (as by holding a
government job and receiving a government pension) |
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