Dip Meaning
/dɪp/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA lower section of a road or geological feature.
nounInclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
Sentence Examples
The dip burned my tongue.
If we have money problems we can always dip into our savings.
The dip was so hot, it burned my tongue.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Before serving, you should ____ the chips into the creamy salsa bowl.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ burned my tongue.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English dippen, from Old English dyppan, from Proto-West Germanic *duppjan, from Proto-Germanic *dupjaną; see *daupijaną (“to dip”). Related to deep.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"They were all doomed to be disappointed, however, for the errant engine decided at Stanley junction to spend the remainder of its crowded hour of freedom on the Aberdeen line, and finally came to rest, short of breath, in the dip between Ballathie and Cargill, near the bridge over the Tay."
— 1941 October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, in Railway Magazine, page 469:
"After a signal check at Darley Dale, on the third run, the Pacific mounted the long 1 in 100 at a steady 53-54 m.p.h. and attained a brief 60 m.p.h. in the short dip before Monsal Dale."
— 1960 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 177–178:
"With his precious charge / Embark'd, Sinicus gently ſteers along; / The dip of oars in uniſon awake / Without alarming ſilence; […]"
— a. 1786, [Richard Glover], “Book the Seventh”, in [Mrs. Halsey], editor, The Athenaid, a Poem, […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], published 1787, →OCLC, page 184, lines 293–296:
"To steal a housewife's purse might mean that her children would have to go hungry; but what of that, if the flash young “dip” could gain admiration from his mates by boasting that he had “frisked a judy's cly and lifted a skinful of bunce”?"
— 1959, Frank Clune, Murders on Maunga-tapu, page 10:
"Skeet is one of the modern young breed of dip, no longer interested in the pocket watches of the old and inattentive, finding more challenge in lifting a watch right off a wrist in broad daylight […]."
— 2025, Thomas Pynchon, Shadow Ticket, Jonathan Cape, page 6:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Before serving, you should ____ the chips into the creamy salsa bowl.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ burned my tongue.