Dip vs Strike - What's the difference?
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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.
To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
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To have a sharp or sudden effect.
#(lb) To hit.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
#*:He at Philippi kept / His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck / The lean and wrinkled Cassius.
#(lb) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
#*(Bible), (w) xii.7:
#*:They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two sideposts.
#*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
#*:Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.
#(lb) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
#*:Strike now, or else the iron cools.
#(lb) To manufacture, as by stamping.
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# To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded.
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#(lb) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
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#(lb) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
#*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
#*:A deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
#(lb) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
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#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:Waving wide her myrtle wand, / She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.
#(lb) To cause to ignite by friction.
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(lb) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
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To have a sharp or severe effect.
#(lb) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
#*(Bible), Proverbs xvii.26:
#*:To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes for equity.
#(lb) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
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#*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
#(lb) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
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# To impinge upon.
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#(lb) To stop working to achieve better working conditions.
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#(lb) To impress, seem or appear (to).
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#*1895 , , (The Time Machine) , Ch.X:
#*:I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years.
#(lb) To create an impression.
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# To take forcibly or fraudulently.
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#To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
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#*(Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)
#*:Nice works of art strike and surprise us most on the first view.
#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
#*:They please as beauties, here as wonders strike .
#To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
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# To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.
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To touch; to act by appulse.
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Hinder light but from striking on it [porphyry], and its colours vanish.
To take down, especially in the following contexts.
#(lb) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
##(lb) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
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##*(w) (1643-1715)
##*:The English ships of war should not strike in the Danish seas.
#To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
#*1851 , (Herman Melville), (w) , :
#*:“Strike' the tent there!”—was the next order. As I hinted before, this whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the Pequod, for thirty years, the order to ' strike the tent was well known to be the next thing to heaving up the anchor.
(lb) To set off on a walk or trip.
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, title= (lb) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
*(Bible), (w) vii.23:
*:till a dart strike through his liver
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem.
(lb) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into .
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(lb) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
To make and ratify.
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To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
(lb) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
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To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
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To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
*(Bible), 2 (w) v.11:
*:Behold, I thought, He willstrike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
(lb) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:well struck in years
To balance (a ledger or account).
(baseball) a status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught
(bowling) the act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame
a work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest
a blow or application of physical force against something
(finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
:* 1882': The sum is also used for the quarter, and the '''strike for the bushel. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, ''A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 207.
(cricket) the status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at
:* The batsmen have crossed, and Dhoni now has the strike .
the primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen
(geology) the compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
(obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
* Sir Walter Scott
An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
(ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
(obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
The discovery of a source of something.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A strike plate.
(Webster 1913)
In geology terms the difference between dip and strike
is that dip is the angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line while strike is the compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.In transitive terms the difference between dip and strike
is that dip is to perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body while strike is to create an impression.In intransitive terms the difference between dip and strike
is that dip is to incline downward from the plane of the horizon while strike is to become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.dip
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.
- (Marryat)
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.
- (Fuller)
- 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 .
Derived terms
* dipper * you don't dip your pen in company inkEtymology 2
Anagrams
* ----strike
English
Verb
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Stoke 0-2 Fulham, passage=Defender Chris Baird struck twice early in the first half to help Fulham move out of the relegation zone and ease the pressure on manager Mark Hughes.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
Usage notes
Custom influences which participle is used in set phrases and specific contexts, but in general, the past participle "struck" is more common when speaking of intransitive actions (e.g. He'd struck it rich'', or ''He's struck out on his own'', etc.), while "stricken" is more commonly used for transitive actions, especially constructions where the subject is the object of an implied action (e.g. ''The Court has stricken the statement from the record'', or ''The city was stricken with disease , etc.)Derived terms
* striking distanceSee also
* strike a balance * strike down * strike gold * strike out baseball and slangNoun
(en noun)- Three hogsheads of ale of the first strike .
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}