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Definition of Dipping
1. n. The act or process of immersing.
Definition of Dipping
1. Verb. (present participle of dip) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dipping
1. dip [v] - See also: dip
Medical Definition of Dipping
1. 1. The act or process of immersing. 2. The act of inclining downward. 3. The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like. 4. The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, especially. Brass, by dipping it in acids, etc. 5. The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff. Dipping needle, a magnetic needle suspended at its center of gravity, and moving freely in a vertical plane, so as to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or inclination. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dipping
Literary usage of Dipping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"... that there is a continuation upward from the summit of said juncture or union
of said northerly and southerly dipping limbs or sides of said vein of ore ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1834)
"On a peculiar Source of Error in Experiments with the dipping Needle. By the Rev.
WILLIAM SCORESBY, FRS Certain discrepancies, at the time apparently ..."
3. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"Observations and Experiments on the Daily Variation of the Horizontal and dipping
Needles under a reduced Directive Power. By Peter Barlow, Esq. FRS of the ..."
4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"A short time was allowed for each dipping to cool the last coat. ... The opposite
frame restores equilibrium, and the rotating and dipping are continued ..."
5. Farm Buildings by William Arthur Foster, Deane G. Carter (1922)
"dipping Vat.—The dipping vat is a container for holding FIG. 211.—dipping tank
for stock. dip in which animals may be immersed for infection, ticks, ..."
6. Proceedings by Natural Gas Association of America, Modern Language Association of America (1917)
"dipping POT FOR SOLDERING IRONS. ... A short piece of eight-inch pipe with cap
attached makes an indestructible dipping pot for soldering irons. Wrinkle No. ..."
7. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1883)
"ABO dipping Tubes. Tío; 105 Glass Syringe. server should be always provided with
... dipping Tubes.—In every operation in which small quantities of liquid, ..."
8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"For the dipping process it is necessary to keep each match free from contact with
its neighbour, and indeed allow it such a space that each may be fully ..."
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