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

2) If something dipped, it went down a little: the temperature dipped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dipped/#m2)

3) Dipped headlights are car lights angled down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dipped/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dipped/#x1)
- The temperature dipped below zero. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dipped/#x2)
- He dipped his toe in the pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dipped/#x3)
- The sun dipped behind the hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dipped/#x4)
- I dipped my brush in the blue paint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dipped/#x5)
- Sales dipped in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dipped/#x6)
- Into this they also dipped a dry stick, and immediately it burst into flower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dipped/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/12/)
- [In baptism a person is washed with or dipped in water in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation/8/)
- [And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1210/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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