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Definition of Dip into
1. Verb. Read selectively; read only certain passages from a text.
Definition of Dip into
1. Verb. (transitive) (&lit dip into) ¹
2. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To spend some of one's savings ¹
3. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To read parts of something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dip Into
Literary usage of Dip into
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"A dip into THE FUTURE From 'The Color Line.' And the individual withers, And the
world is more and more. —Tennyson. . . . THE reader may find the foregoing ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"In the rotary scrubber, the gas is caused to impinge on revolving brushes or
circular wooden screens, which dip into the water or liquor in the lower half ..."
3. Notes of a Busy Life by Joseph Benson Foraker (1916)
"A dip into NATIONAL POLITICS. THE National Republican Convention of 1880 will
long be memorable because of the titanic struggle of Senator Conkling to ..."
4. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"... which from time to time they dip into ink. mingled with ox's gall, and prick
your arm all along the lines that are marked by the wooden mould. ..."
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