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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dip/#m1)

2) To dip means to go down a little, like a road or a price. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dip/#m2)

3) A dip is a thick sauce you put food into, like salsa or hummus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dip/#m3)

4) A dip is a quick swim. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dip/#m4)

5) A dip is a low place in a road or the ground, or a small drop in a number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dip/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dip/#x1)
- We had carrot sticks with a cheese dip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dip/#x2)
- Let's go for a dip in the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dip/#x3)
- The road dips down to the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dip/#x4)
- Temperatures dipped below zero last night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dip/#x5)
- The graph shows a dip in March. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dip/#x6)
- I won a toy in the lucky dip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dip/#x7)
- He dipped his toe in the water — too cold! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dip/#x8)
- "Oh! my brother, the water reaches to my ankles, Still, Oh! my brother, the pitcher will not dip." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dip/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/6/)
- [The hole went straight like a tunnel and then dipped suddenly down into a very deep well.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/12/)
- [The March Hare dips it in his tea and gloomily repeats that it was the best butter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/6/)
- [We write what you hear in pinyin, with little tone marks showing whether the voice stays high, rises, dips or falls.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate/1/)
- [nǎr (where?) dips and nàr (there) falls; only the tone tells the two apart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dip» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dip/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.