📖 Определения и значения для слова dip
📒 to put something quickly into a liquid and take it out again
- dip something (into something) He dipped the brush into the paint.
- dip something (in) Dip your hand in to see how hot the water is.
- The fruit had been dipped in chocolate.
📒 to go downwards or to a lower level; to make something do this
- (+ adv./prep.) The sun dipped below the horizon.
- Sales for this quarter have dipped from 38.7 million to 33 million.
- The road dipped suddenly as we approached the town.
📒 if you dip your headlights when driving a car at night, you make the light from them point down so that other drivers do not have the light in their eyes
📒 when farmers dip animals, especially sheep, they put them in a bath of a liquid containing chemicals in order to kill insects, etc.
📒 to spend some of your own money on something
- She was forced to dip into her own pocket to pay for the repairs.
📒 to start doing something very carefully to see if it will be successful or not
- We decided to dip a toe in the computer games market.