Dipping Synonyms and Antonyms

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.