Definition of dip

• v. t. - To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
• v. t. - To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
• v. t. - To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
• v. t. - To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
• v. t. - To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.
• v. t. - To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
• v. i. - To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
• v. i. - To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.
• v. i. - To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
• v. i. - To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.
• v. i. - To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
• v. i. - To dip snuff.
• n. - The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
• n. - Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
• n. - A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
• n. - A dipped candle.