dipped

«dipped» in Mova's school dictionary: If you dipped something, you put it into a liquid and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb form (dip, dips, dipped, dipping); adjective (dipped)

meaning for a pupil

1) If you dipped something, you put it into a liquid and took it out quickly. tree →

2) If something dipped, it went down a little: the temperature dipped. tree →

3) Dipped headlights are car lights angled down. tree →

sense in the lessons

Cooking (biscuits dipped in milk), science (temperature dipped), maths graphs (the line dipped), art (brush dipped in paint).

examples

• She dipped her biscuit in her tea. tree →
• The temperature dipped below zero. tree →
• He dipped his toe in the pool. tree →
• The sun dipped behind the hills. tree →
• I dipped my brush in the blue paint. tree →
• Sales dipped in winter. tree →
• Into this they also dipped a dry stick, and immediately it burst into flower. tree →

note

Double p in dipped, dipping. In graphs and maths «dipped» means decreased a bit, then may go up.

In the corpora

• The hole went straight like a tunnel and then dipped suddenly down into a very deep well.
• In baptism a person is washed with or dipped in water in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
• And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood;

Trees and pragmatics

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