dipping
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dipping
- /ˈdɪpɪŋ/
Rhymes with -ɪpɪŋ
verb
- present participle and gerund of dip
noun dippings
- An act or process of immersing. […] it was ordeined, that children shuld be brought to the church, there to receiue baptisme in faire water, with thrée dippings into the same, in the name of the father, the sonne, and the Holie-ghost […]
- The act of inclining downward.
- The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
- The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, especially brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
- The use of dipping tobacco (moist snuff) in the mouth, usually between the lip and gum or cheek and gum in the lower or upper part of the mouth.
- The act or fact of missing out on seeing a bird. That same trip would have to go down as the greatest dipping fest in Australian birding history. I had five target species and never saw one, despite spending a week looking for them.
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Closest in meaning: swaybacked, swayback, lordotic, unfit, soaking, diving, sloping, subduction, tilting, dropping, leaning, dumping, lowering, monocline, compensation, earnings
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noun an act or processing of immersing
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