dip

1. (transitive)To lower into a liquid.

   Dip your biscuit into your tea.

   dip into a liquid

2. (intransitive)To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.

   immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate

3. (intransitive)(of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.

4. (transitive)To lower a light's beam.

   Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.

   abblenden

   switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam

5. (transitive)To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.

   The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.

6. (transitive)To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.

   The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.

7. (transitive)To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.

   Ölstand m prüfen

8. To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue in order to absorb the desired chemical constituents.

   Near-synonym: pack a lip

   He started dipping years ago.

9. (transitive)To immerse for baptism.

   immerse in a disinfectant solution

10. (transitive)To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.

    stain an object by immersing it in a liquid

11. (intransitive)To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

12. (transitive)To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.

    to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water

1. Have you ever gone skinny dipping?

   ruВы когда-нибудь ходили купаться нагишом?

   deWarst du schon mal nacktbaden?

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2. Would you ever go skinny dipping?

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3. I feel like taking a dip.

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4. He dipped his spoon into the soup.

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5. Tom dipped his spoon into the soup.

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regular · Lesson

• dip outTo leave a place without informing anyone.
• dip intoUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: dip into.