different between dip vs cave

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?p, IPA^(key): /d?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English dippen, from Old English dyppan, from Proto-Germanic *dupjan?; see *daupijan? (“to dip”). Related to deep.

Noun

dip (plural dips)

1. A lower section of a road or geological feature.
2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
3. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
   • 1787, Richard Glover, The Athenaid

     the dip of oars in unison

4. A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
5. A dip stick.
6. A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.

   I'm going for a dip before breakfast.

7. (colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
   • 1906, Fred L. Boalt, "The Snitcher", McClure's Magazine v.26, p.633

     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.

8. A sauce for dipping.

   This onion dip is just scrumptious.

9. (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
10. (archaic) A dipped candle.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Marryat to this entry?)

11. (dance) a move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader
12. A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
13. In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
14. (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
15. (uncountable) The moist form of snuff tobacco.
16. (birdwatching, colloquial) The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.

Derived terms

• lucky dip

Translations

Verb

dip (third-person singular simple present dips, present participle dipping, simple past and past participle dipped)

1. (transitive) To lower into a liquid.

   Dip your biscuit into your tea.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     He dipped the end of a towel in cold water and with it began to flick him on the face, his wife all the while holding her face between her hands and sobbing in a way that was heart breaking to hear.

2. (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

     The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out.

3. (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
4. (transitive) To lower a light's beam.

   Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.

5. (transitive) 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.”

6. (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.

   The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.

7. (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
8. 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.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

9. (transitive) To immerse for baptism.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)

   • c. 1722, Charles Wheatly, A rational illustration of the Book of Common Prayer

     […] during the reigns of King James and King Charles I, there were but very few children dipped in the font.

10. (transitive) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
11. (intransitive) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

    • He was […] dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.

12. (transitive) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.

    to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water

13. (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
14. (transitive) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.

    • Live on the use and never dip thy lands.

15. (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
16. (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.

    Strata of rock dip.

17. (transitive, dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
18. To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
19. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave.

    He dipped out of the room so fast.

20. (birdwatching, colloquial) To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from dippy.

Noun

dip (plural dips)

1. A foolish person.

Derived terms

• dipshit

Etymology 3

Noun

dip (plural dips)

1. (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.

Etymology 4

Shortening.

Noun

dip (plural dips)

1. (informal) A diplomat.

Related terms

• dip locker

Anagrams

• DPI, IDP, PDI, PID, dpi

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English dip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?p/
• Hyphenation: dip
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

dip m (plural dippen, diminutive dipje n)

1. A dip (sauce for dipping).

   Synonym: dipsaus

Derived terms

• discodip

Noun

dip m (plural dips, diminutive dipje n)

1. (colloquial) A minor depression, a short-lived sadness.
2. A minor economic setback, no worse than a short, minor recession.

Derived terms

• dinsdagdip

Polish

Etymology

From English dip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dip/

Noun

dip m inan

1. dip (sauce for dipping)

Declension

Further reading

• dip in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• dip in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

dip m (plural dips)

1. dip (sauce for dipping)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (dip), from Proto-Turkic *t?p (“bottom; root”).

Noun

dip

1. bottom
2. ground

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French cave, from Latin cava (“cavity”), from cavus (“hollow”). Cognate with Tocharian B throat (kor), Albanian cup (“odd, uneven”), Ancient Greek ???? (kúar, “eye of needle, earhole”), Old Armenian ??? (sor, “hole”), Sanskrit ????? (??nya, “empty, barren, zero”). Displaced native Old English s?ræf.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?v, IPA^(key): /ke?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Noun

cave (plural caves)

1. A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.

2. A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
3. A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.

4. A place of retreat, such as a man cave.

5. (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.

6. (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
7. (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
8. (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
9. (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
10. (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
11. (obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
12. (programming) A code cave.

Synonyms

• earthhole

Derived terms

• cave dweller
• caveman
• cave painting
• cavewoman
• seacave

Translations

Verb

cave (third-person singular simple present caves, present participle caving, simple past and past participle caved)

1. To surrender.

2. To collapse.

3. To hollow out or undermine.

4. To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.

   Synonym: spelunk
5. (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.

6. (mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
7. (obsolete) To dwell in a cave.

Derived terms

• block caving
• cave in
• caver
• caving hammer

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin cav?, second-person singular present active imperative of cave? (“to beware”). Used at Eton College, Berkshire.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k??v?, IPA^(key): /?ke?vi/
  • Rhymes: -e?vi
• Homophone: cavy

Interjection

cave

1. (Britain, school slang) look out!; beware!

Synonyms

• heads up, look out, watch it, see also Thesaurus:heads up

Derived terms

• keep cave

Translations

Anagrams

• evac

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kav/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cavus (“concave; cavity”).

Adjective

cave (plural caves)

1. pitted
2. concave
3. cavernous

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Late Latin cava, substantivized form of Latin cava, feminine of the adjective cavus.

Noun

cave f (plural caves)

1. A cellar or basement.
2. (specifically) A wine cellar; or, a piece of furniture that serves the purpose of a wine cellar.
3. (by extension) A wine selection.
4. caves: An estate where wine grapes are grown or (especially) where wine is produced.
5. cave à liqueurs: A chest for the storage of liquors.

Derived terms

• cave à vin

Etymology 3

Probably from cavé, from the past participle of caver, a term used in games.

Noun

cave m (plural caves)

1. (Quebec, slang) An imbecile, a stupid person.

Anagrams

• avec

Further reading

• “cave” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

cave

1. feminine plural of cavo

Noun

cave f

1. plural of cava

Latin

Verb

cav?

1. second-person singular present imperative of cave?
   • 1st century AD, Petronius, Satyricon

     Cave canem.

     Beware of the dog.

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

cave f (plural caves)

1. (Jersey) cave, cellar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -avi

Noun

cave m (plural caves)

1. cellar

Verb

cave

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of cavar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of cavar
3. third-person singular imperative of cavar

Spanish

Verb

cave

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of cavar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of cavar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of cavar.