dip
/dɪp/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.05 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "There is a dip in the road ahead."
- "They were all doomed to be disappointed, however, for the errant engine decided at Stanley junction to spend the remainder of its crowded hour of freedom on the Aberdeen line, and finally came to rest, short of breath, in the dip between Ballathie and Cargill, near the bridge over the Tay."
- "After a signal check at Darley Dale, on the third run, the Pacific mounted the long 1 in 100 at a steady 53-54 m.p.h. and attained a brief 60 m.p.h. in the short dip before Monsal Dale."
- "With his precious charge / Embark'd, Sinicus gently ſteers along; / The dip of oars in uniſon awake / Without alarming ſilence; […]"
- "I’m going for a dip before breakfast."
- "The Moocher was a "dip" in a dilettante sort of way, and his particular graft was boarding street-cars with his papers and grabbing women's pocket-books."
Etymology
From Middle English dippen, from Old English dyppan, from Proto-West Germanic *duppjan, from Proto-Germanic *dupjaną; see *daupijaną (“to dip”). Related to deep.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *dʰewbʰ-, dippen, dyppan, *duppjan, *dupjaną
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- Dated
- Slang
- Archaic
- Colloquial
- British usage
- Informal