A depression in an otherwise level surface.

Roget 308: lowering etc. v.; depression; dip etc. (concavity) 252; abasement; detrusion^†; reduction.    overthrow, overset^†, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation.    bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion^†, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 278: direction, bearing, course, vector; set, drift, tenor; tendency etc. 176; incidence; bending, trending etc. v.; dip, tack, aim, collimation; steering steerage.    point of the compass, cardinal points; North East, South, West; N by E, ENE, NE by N, NE, &c.; rhumb^†, azimuth, line of collimation.    line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march; alignment, allignment^†; air line, beeline; straight shoot.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 252: concavity, depression, dip; hollow, hollowness; indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus^†, lacuna; excavation, strip mine; trough etc. (furrow) 259; honeycomb.    cup, basin, crater, punch bowl; cell etc. (receptacle) 191; socket.    valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe^†, bottom, slade^†, strath^†, glade, grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove; grot^†, grotto; alcove, cul-de-sac; gully etc. 198; arch etc. (curve) 245; bay etc. (of the sea) 343.    excavator, sapper, miner.    honeycomb (sponge) 252.1. ... meer laten zien

physics The angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon.

synoniemen: angle of dip, inclination, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination.

Roget 217: obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness etc. adj.; slopeness^†; leaning etc. v.; bevel, tilt; bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion etc. 243; bend etc. (curve) 245; tower of Pisa.    acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd^†, rising ground, hill, bank, declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity^†; gentle slope, rapid slope, easy ascent, easy descent; shelving beach; talus; monagne Russe [Fr.]; facilis descensus averni [Lat.].    ... meer laten zien

A thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places.

synoniemen: cutpurse, pickpocket.

Nederlands: zakkenroller
Pools: doliniarz

Tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped.

Nederlands: dompelbad
Pools: dip

A brief immersion.

A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity:
— A dip in prices.

synoniemen: drop, fall, free fall.

Roget 306: descent, descension^†, declension, declination; fall; falling etc. v.; slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute^†; titubation^†, stumble; fate of Icarus.    avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide.    declivity, dip, hill.    [equipment for descending by rappeling] rappel.    ... meer laten zien

A candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow.

A brief swim in water.

synoniem: plunge.

Roget 300: insertion, implantation, introduction; insinuation etc. (intervention) 228; planting, etc. v.; injection, inoculation, importation, infusion; forcible ingress etc. 294; immersion; submersion, submergence, dip, plunge; bath etc. (water) 337; interment etc. 363.    clyster [Med.], enema, glyster^†, lavage, lavement^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 310: plunge, dip, dive, header; ducking etc. v.; diver.   

Pools: nurkowanie

A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms.

Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate:
— Dip the garment into the cleaning solution.
— Dip the brush into the paint.

synoniemen: douse, dunk, plunge, souse.

Roget 278: tend towards, bend towards, point towards; conduct to, go to; point to, point at; bend, trend, verge, incline, dip, determine.    steer for, steer towards, make for, make towards; aim at, level at; take aim; keep a course, hold a course; be bound for; bend one's steps towards; direct one's course, steer one's course, bend one's course, shape one's course; align one's march, allign one's march^†; to straight, go straight to the point; march on, march on a point.    ascertain one's direction etc. n.; s'orienter [Fr.], see which way the wind blows; box the compass; take the air line.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 300: insert; introduce, intromit; put into, run into; import; inject; interject etc. 298; infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue.    graft, ingraft^†, bud, plant, implant; dovetail.    obtrude; thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in; impact; empierce^† etc. (make a hole) 260^†.    imbed; immerse, immerge, merge; bathe, soak etc. (water) 337; dip, plunge etc. 310.    bury etc. (inter) 363.    insert itself, lodge itself &c.; plunge in medias res.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 998: perform service [ritual actions of clergy], do duty, minister, officiate, baptize, dip, sprinkle; anoint, confirm, lay hands on; give the sacrament, administer the sacrament; administer extreme unction; hear confession, administer holy penance, shrive; excommunicate, ban with bell book and candle.    [ritual actions of believers] attend services, attend mass, go to mass, hear mass; take the sacrament, receive the sacrament, receive communion, attend the sacrament, partake of the sacrament, partake of communion; communicate; receive extreme unction; confess, go to confession, receive penance; anele^†.    [teaching functions of clergy] preach, sermonize, predicate, lecture.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 337: be watery etc. adj.; reek.    add water, water, wet; moisten etc. 339; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse^†, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 310: plunge, dip, souse, duck; dive, plump; take a plunge, take a header; make a plunge; bathe etc. (water) 337.    submerge, submerse; immerse; douse, sink, engulf, send to the bottom.    get out of one's depth; go to the bottom, go down like a stone, drop like a lead balloon; founder, welter, wallow.    ... meer laten zien

Dip into a liquid while eating.

synoniem: dunk.

Go down momentarily.

Stain an object by immersing it in a liquid.

Take a small amount from.

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

synoniem: dim.

Nederlands: duisteren

Lower briefly.

Appear to move downward:
— The sun dipped below the horizon.

synoniem: sink.

Slope downwards.

Nederlands: afhellen, aflopen, hellen

Dip into a liquid:
— He dipped into the pool.

synoniemen: douse, duck.

Roget 308: depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude^†, pitch, precipitate.    overthrow, overturn, overset^†; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground^†; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears.    sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline etc. (be horizontal) 213.    ... meer laten zien

Place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax.

Immerse in a disinfectant solution.

Plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container.

Scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface.