Dip

Tamil Dictionary definitions for Dip

Dip : பதனம்,சாய்வு, அமிழ்த்து தொட்டி

Dip : முக்கு,முக்கு,மூழ்கி,மூழ்கு.,மூழ்கி,மூழ்கு.,மூழ்க்கு

Dip definition

Transitive verb.

  1. To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
  2. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
  3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
  4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
  5. 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.
  6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.

Intransitive verb.

  1. To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
  2. To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.
  3. To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
  4. To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.
  5. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
  6. To dip snuff.

Noun.

  1. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
  2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
  3. A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
  4. A dipped candle.