Scrabble & Words with friends points
- dip is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 6
- dip is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 6
- dip is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 7
Definition of dip
- appear to move downward (verb)
Examples
- The sun dipped below the horizon
Synonyms
- sink
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam (verb)
Synonyms
- dim
- dip into a liquid while eating (verb)
Synonyms
- dunk
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity (noun)
Examples
- a dip in prices
Synonyms
- drop
- fall
- free fall
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate (verb)
Examples
- dip the garment into the cleaning solution
- dip the brush into the paint
Synonyms
- douse
- dunk
- plunge
- souse
- a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places (noun)
Synonyms
- cutpurse
- pickpocket
- dip into a liquid (verb)
Examples
- He dipped into the pool
Synonyms
- douse
- duck
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon (noun)
Synonyms
- angle of dip
- inclination
- magnetic dip
- magnetic inclination
- a brief swim in water (noun)
Synonyms
- plunge
- a brief immersion (noun)
- a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow (noun)
- a depression in an otherwise level surface (noun)
Examples
- there was a dip in the road
- a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms (noun)
- go down momentarily (verb)
Examples
- Prices dipped
- immerse in a disinfectant solution (verb)
Examples
- dip the sheep
- lower briefly (verb)
Examples
- She dipped her knee
- place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax (verb)
- plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container (verb)
Examples
- He dipped into his pocket
- scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface (verb)
Examples
- dip water out of a container
- slope downwards (verb)
Examples
- Our property dips towards the river
- stain an object by immersing it in a liquid (verb)
- take a small amount from (verb)
Examples
- I had to dip into my savings to buy him this present
- tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped (noun)
See definition of dip in Merriam Webster