Dipping Synonyms and Antonyms

To transfer by scooping
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. lading
  2. offering
  3. scooping
  4. serving
  5. straining
  6. draining
  7. ladling
  8. drawing
  9. lifting
  10. handling
  11. bailing
  12. decanting
  13. spooning
  14. shovelling
To immerse in a coloring solution
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dyeing
  2. coloring
Switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dimming

Words Related to Dipping

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Dipping Sentence Examples

  • After dipping below the London Clay at Canterbury, it sends out an outcrop which forms the greater part of Thanet.

  • This, however, was overcome by sending the current out at the centre of the magnet by means of a short length of wire dipping into an annular groove containing mercury.

  • The method of liming the tiles (chaulage) consists in dipping them into a liquid mixture of lime and water.

  • The coal-fields on the eastern side, from the Tyne nearly to the Trent, are sharply marked off on the east by the outcrop of Permian dolomite or Magnesian limestone, which forms a low terrace dipping towards the east under more recent rocks, and in many places giving rise to an escarpment facing westward towards the gentle slope of the Pennine dales.

  • In 1843 a German bee-keeper, Krechner by name, conceived the idea of first dipping fine linen into molten wax, then pressing the sheets so made between rollers, and thus forming a waxen midrib on which the bees would build their combs.

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