Decrease and Dip

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• A depression in an otherwise level surface.
  • usage: "there was a dip in the road"
• Physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon.
  • synonyms: angle of dip, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination, inclination
• A thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places.
  • synonyms: pickpocket, cutpurse
• Tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped.
• A brief immersion.
• A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity.
  • usage: "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"
  • synonyms: drop, fall, free fall
• A candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow.
• A brief swim in water.
  • synonyms: plunge
• A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms.

verb

• Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate.
  • usage: "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint"
  • synonyms: dunk, souse, plunge, douse
• Dip into a liquid while eating.
  • usage: "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce"
  • synonyms: dunk
• Go down momentarily.
  • usage: "Prices dipped"
• Stain an object by immersing it in a liquid.
• Take a small amount from.
  • usage: "I had to dip into my savings to buy him this present"
• Switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam.
  • synonyms: dim
• Lower briefly.
  • usage: "She dipped her knee"
• Appear to move downward.
  • usage: "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line"
  • synonyms: sink
• Slope downwards.
  • usage: "Our property dips towards the river"
• Dip into a liquid.
  • usage: "He dipped into the pool"
  • synonyms: douse, duck
• Place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax.
• Immerse in a disinfectant solution.
  • usage: "dip the sheep"
• Plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container.
  • usage: "He dipped into his pocket"
• Scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface.
  • usage: "dip water out of a container"

• (v.t.) To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
• (v.i.) To dip snuff.
• (v.i.) To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
• (v.t.) To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
• (n.) A dipped candle.
• (v.t.) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
• (v.i.) To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.
• (n.) The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
• (v.i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
• (v.t.) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.
• (n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
• (v.t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
• (v.t.) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
• (v.i.) To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.
• (n.) A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
• (v.i.) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
• (n.) A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
• (n.) In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation, which is dipped out from incisions in the trees; as, virgin dip (the runnings of the first year), yellow dip (the runnings of subsequent years).
• (n.) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.

Slight drop in securities prices after a sustained uptrend. Analysts often advise investors to buy on' Dip's, meaning to buy when a price is momentarily weak. See: Correction, break, crash.

(DoD, NATO) In naval mine warfare, the amount by which a moored mine is carried beneath its set depth by a current or tidal stream acting on the mine casing and mooring.