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Dipping vs Tipping - What's the difference?

dipping | tipping |

As verbs the difference between dipping and tipping

is that dipping is while tipping is .

As nouns the difference between dipping and tipping

is that dipping is an act or process of immersing while tipping is the practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).

dipping

English

Verb

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  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or process of immersing.
  • The act of inclining downward.
  • The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
  • The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, especially brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
  • (US) The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff.
  • tipping

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).
  • The act by which something is tipped or inclined.
  • * 2013 , Peter Andersson, Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd
  • Hat-tippings and cap-doffings are of course of a different nature to more elaborate verbal greetings. In etiquette manuals they may be described as incentives to a conversation, but in practice they seem to have been quite ceremonial.
  • The dumping of rubbish.
  • (music) A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.
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