dip
/dɪp/ sustantivo B2En español: badén, hundimiento
- A lower section of a road or geological feature. · There is a dip in the road ahead.
- Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- 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. · This onion dip is just scrumptious.
Plural dips
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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A friend, meeting him and learning what he wanted, said, “If you would be cured, take a piece of bread, and dip it in the blood from your wound, and go and give it to the Dog that bit you.” The Man who had been bitten laughed at this advice and said, “Why?
“Bad weather!” observed one of the bearers; “not a pleasant night for a dip in the sea.”
These, though known for their valour and their breed, were whimpering in a cluster at the head of a deep dip or goyal, as we call it, upon the moor, some slinking away and some, with starting hackles and staring eyes, gazing down the narrow valley before them.
She had come from the direction in which the plume of smoke indicated the position of Merripit House, but the dip of the moor had hid her until she was quite close.
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