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Dip can be a verb or a noun.
dip used as a verb:
- To lower into a liquid.
"Dip your biscuit into your tea." - To lower a light's beam.
"Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car." - To lower a flag, particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
"“The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.”" - To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
"The farmer is going to dip the cattle today." - To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
- To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
dip used as a noun:
- A lower section of a road or geological feature.
"There is a dip in the road ahead." - A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
- A dip stick.
- A swim. (Usually a short swim to refresh).
"I'm going for a dip before breakfast." - A pickpocket.
- A sauce for dipping.
"Hmmm, this onion dip is just scrumptious." - The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is dip?
- Verb usage: Dip your biscuit into your tea.
- Verb usage: Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.
- Verb usage: “The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.”
- Verb usage: The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.
- Noun usage: There is a dip in the road ahead.
- Noun usage: I'm going for a dip before breakfast.
- Noun usage: Hmmm, this onion dip is just scrumptious.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of dip are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of dip, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
