DIPS vs PLUNGE: NOUN
- Plural form of dip.
- A thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
- A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- A depression in an otherwise level surface
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- Tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
- A brief immersion
- A candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
- A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
- A brief swim in water
- An immersion by plunging; also, a large bath in which the bather can wholly immerse himself.
- The act of plunging or submerging
- A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
- A brief swim in water
- A steep and rapid fall
- A voltaic battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into, or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure.
- Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
- The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
- A sudden and violent pitching forward of the body, and pitching up of the hind legs, as by an unruly horse
- An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty.
- A sudden dive, leap, or dip into something: as, a plunge in the sea.
- A sudden or dramatic decline.
- A swim; a dip.
- The act or an instance of plunging.
- Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
- The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water.
DIPS vs PLUNGE: VERB
- Slope downwards
- Appear to move downward
- Stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
- Go down momentarily
- Scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
- Immerse in a disinfectant solution
- Of candles; by dipping the wick into hot, liquid wax
- Dip into a liquid
- Switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- Dip into a liquid while eating
- Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dip.
- Lower briefly
- Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- Engross (oneself) fully
- Drop steeply
- Thrust or throw into
- Fall abruptly
- Dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity
- Cause to be immersed
- Begin with vigor
- To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action
DIPS vs PLUNGE: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To use a plunger to try to unblock (a drain, for example).
- To cast suddenly, violently, or deeply into a given state or situation.
- To thrust or throw forcefully into a substance or place.
- To become suddenly lower; decrease dramatically.
- To slope steeply downward.
- To enter or move headlong through something.
- To devote oneself to or undertake an activity earnestly or wholeheartedly.
- To fall rapidly.
- To dive, jump, or throw oneself.
- To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in. Also used figuratively.
- To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
- Firing directed upon an enemy from an elevated position.
- To move forward and downward violently.
DIPS vs PLUNGE: TRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To baptize by immersion.
- To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
- To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust. Also used figuratively.
DIPS vs PLUNGE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- See dip, n., 7.
- To descend precipitously or vertically, as a cliff.
- To bet recklessly; gamble for large stakes; speculate.
- In horticulture, to sink (a pot or box containing a plant) in the ground to the rim or edge. Pots of greenhouse plants are often plunged in the open in warm weather, both for the good of the plants and for their effect in ornamentation.
- To turn over (the telescope of a surveyor's transit or theodolite) in a vertical plane, making the object-glass pass underneath. In transiting the telescope it may pass either above or below.
- In geology, to dip under the surface: used in reference to such structural features as folds where, unless the axis is perfectly horizontal, one end pitches below the horizon or general surface.
- To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state, or condition: as, to plunge into debt or into a controversy.
- To dive, leap, or rush (into water or some fluid).
- To entangle or embarrass: used chiefly in the past participle.
- Figuratively, to cast or throw into some thing, state, condition, or action: as, plunged in grief; to plunge a nation into war.
- To cast or thrust suddenly into water or some other fluid, or into some penetrable substance; immerse; thrust: as, to plunge one's hand into the water; to plunge a dagger into one's breast.
- To throw the body forward and the hind legs up, as an unruly horse.
- Devote (oneself) fully to
- (idiom) (take the plunge) To begin an unfamiliar venture, especially after hesitating.
DIPS vs PLUNGE: RELATED WORDS
- Plunges, Tumbles, Angle of dip, Magnetic dip, Magnetic inclination, Cutpurse, Pickpocket, Dim, Dunk, Douse, Souse, Duck, Inclination, Sink, Plunge
- Nosedive, Tumble, Souse, Engross, Absorb, Dunk, Douse, Launch, Plunk, Immerse, Engulf, Dump, Steep, Dive, Dip
DIPS vs PLUNGE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Sag, Tumble, Declines, Sags, Magnetic dip, Cutpurse, Pickpocket, Dim, Dunk, Douse, Souse, Duck, Inclination, Sink, Plunge
- Decline, Slide, Nosedive, Tumble, Souse, Engross, Dunk, Douse, Launch, Plunk, Engulf, Dump, Steep, Dive, Dip
DIPS vs PLUNGE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Serve light whites with light dips, full-bodied whites or light reds with rich dips, and more robust reds with meat-based spreads.
- HARRIS: Some people say, well, there were dips in the '90s and dips in the '80s and the NIH budget has always gone up-and-down.
- Feet elevated pushups, feet on floor pushups, parallel bar dips, bench dips for chest, front and side deltoids, and triceps.
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- Just wondering what the difference is between bench dips and when ita simply written as dips?
- See Dips, Spreads and Sauces for dips to accompany the picture snacks or any raw vegetables.
- We will have little dips; but the dips are chances for us to catch our breath.
- My first dips are ALWAYS horrible but after some 15 dips, I start feeling better.
- Now God dips what he dips in water.
- Dom was about to plunge into his back?
- Garden and plunge pool in the Manor grounds.
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- We need not plunge into these troubled waters.
- Relax and enjoy the usually uncrowded plunge pool.
- Look no further than the current market plunge.
- Secure desired router bit in collet, stand router upright hand plunge to approx desired depth lock plunge lock lever.
- The Milescraft Rotary Tool Plunge Attachment converts your rotary tool into a mini plunge router.
- To plunge the saw downward you depress the plunge trigger located at the top of the back handle.
- The plunge base features a generously sized plunge lever, which was easy to lock and release, and the plunge action was smooth.
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