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9 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Magnetic \Mag*net"ic\, Magnetical \Mag*net"ic*al\, a. [L. magneticus: cf F. magn['e]tique.] 1. Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; as a magnetic bar of iron; a magnetic needle. 2. Of or pertaining to or characterized by the earth's magnetism; as the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian. 3. Capable of becoming a magnet; susceptible to magnetism; as the magnetic metals. 4. Endowed with extraordinary personal power to excite the feelings and to win the affections; attractive; inducing attachment. She that had all magnetic force alone. --Donne. 5. Having susceptible to or induced by animal magnetism, so called as a magnetic sleep. See {Magnetism}. {Magnetic amplitude}, {attraction}, {dip}, {induction}, etc See under {Amplitude}, {Attraction}, etc {Magnetic battery}, a combination of bar or horseshoe magnets with the like poles adjacent, so as to act together with great power. {Magnetic compensator}, a contrivance connected with a ship's compass for compensating or neutralizing the effect of the iron of the ship upon the needle. {Magnetic curves}, curves indicating lines of magnetic force, as in the arrangement of iron filings between the poles of a powerful magnet. {Magnetic elements}. a (Chem. Physics) Those elements, as iron, nickel, cobalt, chromium, manganese, etc., which are capable or becoming magnetic. b (Physics) In respect to terrestrial magnetism, the declination, inclination, and intensity. c See under {Element}. {Magnetic equator}, the line around the equatorial parts of the earth at which there is no dip, the dipping needle being horizontal. {Magnetic field}, or {Field of magnetic force}, any space through which magnet exerts its influence. {Magnetic fluid}, the hypothetical fluid whose existence was formerly assumed in the explanations of the phenomena of magnetism. {Magnetic iron}, or {Magnetic iron ore}. (Min.) Same as {Magnetite}. {Magnetic needle}, a slender bar of steel, magnetized and suspended at its center on a sharp-pointed pivot, or by a delicate fiber, so that it may take freely the direction of the magnetic meridian. It constitutes the essential part of a compass, such as the mariner's and the surveyor's. {Magnetic poles}, the two points in the opposite polar regions of the earth at which the direction of the dipping needle is vertical. {Magnetic pyrites}. See {Pyrrhotite}. {Magnetic storm} (Terrestrial Physics), a disturbance of the earth's magnetic force characterized by great and sudden changes. {Magnetic telegraph}, a telegraph acting by means of a magnet. See {Telegraph}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dip \Dip\, n. 1. 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. 2. 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). 3. (A["e]ronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dip \Dip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dipped}or {Dipt} (?); p. pr & vb n. {Dipping}.] [OE. dippen, duppen, AS dyppan akin to Dan. dyppe Sw doppa, and to AS d?pan to baptize, OS d?pian, D. doopen G. taufen, Sw d["o]pa, Goth. daupjan Lith. dubus deep, hollow, OSlav. dupl? hollow, and to E. dive. Cf {Deep}, {Dive}.] 1. To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. --Lev. iv 6. [Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny deep. --Pope. While the prime swallow dips his wing. --Tennyson. 2. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. --Book of Common Prayer. Fuller. 3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [Poetic] A cold shuddering dew Dips me all o'er. --Milton. 4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair. He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons. --Dryden. 5. 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. 6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Obs.] Live on the use and never dip thy lands. --Dryden. {Dipped candle}, a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick in melted tallow. {To dip snuff}, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and teeth. [Southern U. S.] {To dip the colors} (Naut.), to lower the colors and return them to place -- a form of naval salute. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dip \Dip\, n. 1. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. ``The dip of oars in unison.'' --Glover. 2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line slope; pitch. 3. A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett. 4. A dipped candle. [Colloq.] --Marryat. {Dip of the horizon} (Astron.), the angular depression of the seen or visible horizon below the true or natural horizon; the angle at the eye of an observer between a horizontal line and a tangent drawn from the eye to the surface of the ocean. {Dip of the needle}, or {Magnetic dip}, the angle formed, in a vertical plane, by a freely suspended magnetic needle, or the line of magnetic force, with a horizontal line -- called also {inclination}. {Dip of a stratum} (Geol.), its greatest angle of inclination to the horizon, or that of a line perpendicular to its direction or strike; -- called also the {pitch}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dip \Dip\, v. i. 1. To immerse one's self to become plunged in a liquid; to sink. The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out --Coleridge. 2. To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot. --L'Estrange. 3. To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into When I dipt into the future. --Tennyson. 4. To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into ``Dipped into a multitude of books.'' --Macaulay. 5. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as strata of rock dip. 6. To dip snuff. [Southern U.S.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dip n 1: a depression in an otherwise level surface; "there was a dip in the road" 2: (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon [syn: {angle of dip}, {magnetic dip}, {magnetic inclination}, {inclination}] 3: a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places [syn: {pickpocket}, {cutpurse}] 4: tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped 5: a brief immersion 6: a brief swim in water [syn: {plunge}] v 1: immerse into a liquid; "dunk the bread into the soup" [syn: {dunk}, {souse}, {plunge}, {douse}] 2: dip into a liquid while eating; as of bread in a soup or sauce [syn: {dunk}] 3: go down momentarily; "Prices dipped" 4: stain an object by immersing it in a liquid 5: switch a car's headlights from a higher to a lower beam [syn: {dim}] 6: lower briefly; "She dipped her knee" 7: sink; "The sun dipped below the horizon" [syn: {sink}] 8: slope downwards; "Our property dips towards the river" 9: dip into a liquid: "He dipped into the pool" [syn: {douse}, {duck}] 10: of candles; by dipping the wick into hot, liquid wax From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: DIP 1. {Dual In-line Package}. 2. {Document Image Processing}. From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: DIP Dial-up Internet Protocol (Linux) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: DIP Dual In-line Package (IC, DRAM)
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