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plummet
English
Etymology
From Middle English plommet (“ball of lead", "plumb of a bob-line”), recorded since 1382, from Old French plommet or plomet, the diminutive of plom, plum (“lead", "sounding lead”), from Latin plumbum (“lead”). The verb is first recorded in 1626, originally meaning “to fathom, take soundings", from the noun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pl?m.?t/
- Rhymes: -?m?t
Noun
plummet (plural plummets)
- (archaic) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water, a plumb bob or a plumb line
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 3
- I'll sink him deeper than e'er plummet sounded.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 3
- (archaic) Hence, any weight
- 1945, Ernie Pyle, Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe, The World Publishing Company (1945), page #93:
- His parachute was shot half away, and if he'd jumped he would have fallen like a plummet.
- 1945, Ernie Pyle, Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe, The World Publishing Company (1945), page #93:
- (archaic) A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines)
- A plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line
- Violent or dramatic fall
- (figuratively) A decline; a fall; a drop
Translations
Verb
plummet (third-person singular simple present plummets, present participle plummeting or plummetting, simple past and past participle plummeted or plummetted)
- (intransitive) To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly.
- After its ascent, the arrow plummeted to earth.
Synonyms
- (to drop swiftly): dive, drop, fall
Antonyms
- (to drop swiftly): ascend, rise, rocket, soar, skyrocket
Translations
See also
- plumb line
- plumb
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “plummet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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dip
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)
- A lower section of a road or geological feature.
- Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- 1787, Richard Glover, The Athenaid
- the dip of oars in unison
- 1787, Richard Glover, The Athenaid
- 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.
- (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.
- 1906, Fred L. Boalt, "The Snitcher", McClure's Magazine v.26, p.633
- A sauce for dipping.
- This onion dip is just scrumptious.
- (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
- (archaic) A dipped candle.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Marryat to this entry?)
- (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
- 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.
- 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.
- (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
- (uncountable) The moist form of snuff tobacco.
- (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)
- (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.
- (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.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
- (transitive) To lower a light's beam.
- Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.
- (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.”
- (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
- The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.
- (transitive) 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.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (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.
- (transitive) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
- (intransitive) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
- He was […] dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.
- (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
- (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
- (transitive) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
- Live on the use and never dip thy lands.
- (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
- (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
- Strata of rock dip.
- (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)
- To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To leave.
- He dipped out of the room so fast.
- (birdwatching, colloquial) To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Back-formation from dippy.
Noun
dip (plural dips)
- A foolish person.
Derived terms
- dipshit
Etymology 3
Noun
dip (plural dips)
- (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.
Etymology 4
Shortening.
Noun
dip (plural dips)
- (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)
- A dip (sauce for dipping).
- Synonym: dipsaus
Derived terms
- discodip
Noun
dip m (plural dips, diminutive dipje n)
- (colloquial) A minor depression, a short-lived sadness.
- 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
- 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)
- dip (sauce for dipping)
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ???? (dip), from Proto-Turkic *t?p (“bottom; root”).
Noun
dip
- bottom
- ground
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