dip

«dip» in Mova's school dictionary: to put it into a liquid quickly and take it out — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (dip, dips, dipped, dipping); noun (a dip, dips)

meaning for a pupil

1) To dip something means to put it into a liquid quickly and take it out. tree →

2) To dip means to go down a little, like a road or a price. tree →

3) A dip is a thick sauce you put food into, like salsa or hummus. tree →

4) A dip is a quick swim. tree →

5) A dip is a low place in a road or the ground, or a small drop in a number. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life you dip biscuits in milk, chips in sauce, or go for a dip in the sea. In maths and science, a dip in a graph means the numbers went down for a while; «temperatures dipped» means they fell. In stories the sun dips below the horizon. Phrases: «dip into» (read a little, use some savings), «go for a dip», «a dip in the road», «lucky dip», «dip your toe in».

examples

• She dipped her biscuit in her tea. tree →
• We had carrot sticks with a cheese dip. tree →
• Let's go for a dip in the lake. tree →
• The road dips down to the river. tree →
• Temperatures dipped below zero last night. tree →
• The graph shows a dip in March. tree →
• I won a toy in the lucky dip. tree →
• He dipped his toe in the water — too cold! tree →
• "Oh! my brother, the water reaches to my ankles, Still, Oh! my brother, the pitcher will not dip." tree →

note

Double p: dipped, dipping. Safety: only go for a dip in water with an adult watching, at a safe place; check depth before jumping. In maths, «a dip» in a graph is a fall then rise, not a crash to zero.

In the corpora

• A raccoon dipping food in water is feeling it, not washing it; water makes its paws even more sensitive.
• The hole went straight like a tunnel and then dipped suddenly down into a very deep well.
• The March Hare dips it in his tea and gloomily repeats that it was the best butter.
• We write what you hear in pinyin, with little tone marks showing whether the voice stays high, rises, dips or falls.
• nǎr (where?) dips and nàr (there) falls; only the tone tells the two apart.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dip» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.