Dip vs Wet - 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.
Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.
Of weather or a time period, rainy.
* Milton
Made up of liquid or moisture.
(informal) Of a person, ineffectual.
(slang) Of a woman or girl, sexually aroused.
(slang, of a person) Inexperienced in a task or profession; having the characteristics of a rookie.
(of a scientist or laboratory) Working with chemical or biological matter.
(chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition.
* 1995 , Richard F. Hamm, Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment
(fountain pens and calligraphy) Depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
* This pen's a wet writer, so it'll feather on this cheap paper.
(slang, archaic) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
Covered in a sauce.
* 2000 , Robert Allen Palmatier, Food: a dictionary of literal and nonliteral terms , page 372
* 2005 , Restaurant business , Volume 104, Issues 1-10
* 2011 , J. Gabriel Gates, Charlene Keel, Dark Territory , page 13
Liquid or moisture.
* Milton
Rainy weather.
(British, pejorative) A moderate Conservative.
(colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, page 60:
To cover or impregnate with liquid.
To urinate accidentally in or on.
To become wet
In transitive terms the difference between dip and wet
is that dip is to perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body while wet is to urinate accidentally in or on.In intransitive terms the difference between dip and wet
is that dip is to incline downward from the plane of the horizon while wet is to become wet.As an adjective wet is
of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.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
* ----wet
English
Adjective
(wetter)- I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet .
- It’s going to be wet tomorrow.
- wet October's torrent flood
- Water is wet .
- Don't be so wet .
- He got me all wet .
- That guy's wet ; after all, he just started yesterday.
- the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed
- The wet states would be "the greatest beneficiaries" because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities.
- (Prior)
- A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.
- The new item is its first "wet ," or sauce-topped, burrito.
- But I'm getting the wet burrito.” Ignacio looked down at some sort of a tomato sauce–covered tortilla tube.
Synonyms
* (covered with liquid) damp, saturated, soaked * (of weather or a day) damp, raining, rainy * (sexually aroused) horny * (made up of liquid) wetting * (ineffectual) feeble, hopeless, useless * (inexperienced) green, wet behind the ears * (burrito) chimichangaAntonyms
* (covered with liquid) dry * (of weather or a day) dry * (of a scientist or lab) dryDerived terms
* all wet * wet bar * wet behind the ears * wet blanket * wetland * wet-look * wetware * wetworkSee also
* moistNoun
(en noun)- Now the sun, with more effectual beams, / Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet / From drooping plant.
- Don't go out in the wet .
- ‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet .’
Verb
- Johnny wets the bed several times a week.