Bail vs Dip - What's the difference?
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Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
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(legal, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
(legal, UK) The person providing such payment.
A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
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(obsolete) Custody; keeping.
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To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
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(legal) To release a person under such guarantee.
(legal) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
(nautical) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
* Capt. J. Smith
(nautical) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
* R. H. Dana, Jr.
To set free; to deliver; to release.
* Spenser
(slang) To exit quickly.
* 2010 September, Jeannette Cooperman, "Bringing It Home", , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 62:
(informal) To fail to meet a commitment.
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A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket) .
* 2010 , John M. Findley, Just Lucky ,
A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop) .
* 1953 , British Institute of Management, Centre for Farm Management, Farm Management Association, Farm Managememt , 1960, John Wiley,
* 2011 , Edith H. Whetham, Joan Thirsk, The Agrarian History of England and Wales , Volume 8: Volumes 1914-1939,
A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
(chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
* 2011 , Bob Ellis, Hush Now, Don't Cry ,
A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
(cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
(furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail, as the wire bail handle shown in the drawing.
(rare) To confine.
(Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
(Australia, New Zealand) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with (up).)
* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 128:
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.
* Glover
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.
(colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
* 1906 , Fred L. Boalt, "
A sauce for dipping.
(geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
(archaic) A dipped candle.
To lower into a liquid.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
* Coleridge
(of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
To lower a light's beam.
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.
To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
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.
To immerse for baptism.
* Charles Wheatly, A rational illustration of the Book of Common Prayer
To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
* Milton
To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
* Dryden
To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out .
To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
* L'Estrange
To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
* Dryden
To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
Bail is a synonym of dip.
As a conjunction bail
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English
(wikipedia bail)Etymology 1
From the (etyl) verb .Noun
(en noun)- The bail of a canoe made of a human skull.
- Silly Faunus now within their bail .
Derived terms
* jump bail * out on bailVerb
(en verb)- to bail''' cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to '''bail goods to a carrier
- to bail water out of a boat
- buckets to bail out the water
- to bail a boat
- By the help of a small bucket and our hats we bailed her out.
- Ne none there was to rescue her, ne none to bail .
Derived terms
* bailment * bailor * bailee * bail outEtymology 2
From a shortening of bail out, which from above.Verb
(en verb)- With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail .
- The Teacher Home Visit Program takes a huge commitment—time, energy, patience, diplomacy. Quite a few schools have tried it and bailed .
Etymology 3
From (etyl) beyl, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 78,
- I reached across beneath the cow to attach a metal bail' to each end of the strap so that the '''bail''' hung about 5 inches below the cow's belly.While stroking and talking to the cow, I reached under and suspended the machine on the ' bail beneath the cow, with its four suction cups dangling to one side.
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- More recently, the fixed bail , sometimes called the ‘milking parlour’, with either covered or open yards, has had a certain vogue and some very enthusiastic claims have been made for this method of housing.
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- Ten men thus sufficed for the milking of three hundred cows in five bails , instead of the thirty men who would normally have been employed by conventional methods.
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- But until he had poured enough milk into the vat above the separator, I drove unmilked cows into the bail' where he had previously milked and released one. He moved from one '''bail''' to the other to milk the next one I had readied. I drove each cow into the empty ' bail , chained her in, roped the outer hind leg then washed and massaged the udder and teats.
Etymology 4
From (etyl) baillier.Verb
(en verb)- The transition over the rooftop would have been quicker if Sellers had not been bailed up by a particularly hostile spiritual presence speaking Swedish.
Anagrams
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dippen, from (etyl) dyppan, from (etyl) , Dutch dopen, German taufen.Noun
(en noun)- There is a dip in the road ahead.
- the dip of oars in unison
- I'm going for a dip before breakfast.
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.
- This onion dip is just scrumptious.
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Derived terms
* lucky dipVerb
(dipp)- Dip your biscuit into your tea .
- 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.
- The sun's rim dips ; the stars rush out.
- Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.
- “The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.”
- The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.
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- during the reigns of King James and King Charles I, there were but very few children dipped in the font.
- A cold shuddering dew / Dips me all o'er.
- He was dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.
- to dip''' water from a boiler; to '''dip out water
- Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot.
- Live on the use and never dip thy lands.
- Strata of rock dip .