The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
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   2. Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, the earth's
      magnetism; as, the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian.
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   3. Capable of becoming a magnet; susceptible to magnetism;
      as, the magnetic metals.
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   4. Endowed with extraordinary personal power to excite the
      feelings and to win the affections; attractive; inducing
      attachment.
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            She that had all magnetic force alone. --Donne.
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   5. Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism,
      so called; hypnotic; as, a magnetic sleep. See
      Magnetism. [Archaic]
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   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 fluid, the hypothetical fluid whose existence was
      formerly assumed in the explanations of the phenomena of
      magnetism; -- no longer considered a meaningful concept.


   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 tape (Electronics), a ribbon of plastic material
      to which is affixed a thin layer of powder of a material
      which can be magnetized, such as ferrite. Such tapes are
      used in various electronic devices to record fluctuating
      voltages, which can be used to represent sounds, images,
      or binary data. Devices such as audio casette recorders,
      videocasette recorders, and computer data storage devices
      use magnetic tape as an inexpensive medium to store data.
      Different magnetically susceptible materials are used in
      such tapes.

   Magnetic telegraph, a telegraph acting by means of a
      magnet. See Telegraph.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dip \Dip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dippedor 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.
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            The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. --Lev.
                                                  iv. 6.
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            [Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny
            deep.                                 --Pope.
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            While the prime swallow dips his wing. --Tennyson.
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   2. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. --Book of
      Common Prayer. Fuller.
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   3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [Poetic]
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            A cold shuddering dew
            Dips me all o'er.                     --Milton.
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   4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
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            He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   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.
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   6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Obs.]
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            Live on the use and never dip thy lands. --Dryden.
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   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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dip \Dip\, v. i.
   1. To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to
      sink.
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            The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out. --Coleridge.
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   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.
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            Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot.
                                                  --L'Estrange.
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   3. To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
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            When I dipt into the future.          --Tennyson.
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   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.
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   5. To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as,
      strata of rock dip.
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   6. To dip snuff. [Southern U.S.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dip \Dip\, n.
   1. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a
      liquid. "The dip of oars in unison." --Glover.
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   2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line;
      slope; pitch.
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   3. a hollow or depression in a surface, especially in the
      ground.
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   4. A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a
      ladle or spoon. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett.
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   5. A dipped candle. [Colloq.] --Marryat.
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   6. 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.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   7. 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).
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   8. (A["e]ronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb,
      usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting
      into an airhole.
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   9. a liquid, in which objects are soaked by dipping; e.g., a
      parasiticide or insecticide solution into which animals
      are dipped (see sheep-dip).
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   10. a sauce into which foods are dipped to enhance the
       flavor; e. g., an onion dip made from sour cream and
       dried onions, into which potato chips are dipped.
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   11. a pickpocket. [slang]
       [PJC]

   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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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: dip, 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, dip]
    4: tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are
       dipped
    5: a brief immersion
    6: a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "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"
       [syn: drop, dip, fall, free fall]
    7: a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or
       tallow
    8: a brief swim in water [syn: dip, plunge]
    9: a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body
       is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
    v 1: immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or
         saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution";
         "dip the brush into the paint" [syn: dunk, dip,
         souse, plunge, douse]
    2: dip into a liquid while eating; "She dunked the piece of
       bread in the sauce" [syn: dunk, dip]
    3: go down momentarily; "Prices dipped"
    4: stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
    5: take a small amount from; "I had to dip into my savings to
       buy him this present"
    6: switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
       [syn: dim, dip]
    7: lower briefly; "She dipped her knee"
    8: appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon";
       "The setting sun sank below the tree line" [syn: dip,
       sink]
    9: slope downwards; "Our property dips towards the river"
    10: dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool" [syn: dip,
        douse, duck]
    11: place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
    12: immerse in a disinfectant solution; "dip the sheep"
    13: plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container; "He
        dipped into his pocket"
    14: scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the
        surface; "dip water out of a container"

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

302 Moby Thesaurus words for "dip":
   acid bath, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, apply paint, armpit,
   ascend, asperge, attrition, bail, bank, baptism, baptize, basin,
   bath, bayberry candle, beat the drum, bedaub, bedizen, begild,
   besmear, bougie, bowl, brush on paint, bucket, burial, bury,
   calcimine, candle, cannon, cant, careen, cavity, christen, climb,
   coat, color, complexion, concave, concavity, corpse candle, cover,
   crab, crater, crypt, cup, curtailment, cut, cutpurse, cutting, dab,
   daub, decant, decline, declivity, decrease, decrement, deep-dye,
   deluge, depletion, depreciation, depression, derogation, descend,
   descent, detraction, diminution, dipping, dish, dish out, dish up,
   disparagement, distemper, diver, double-dye, douse, dousing,
   downgate, downgrade, downhill, downslide, downswing, downtrend,
   downturn, draw, drop, drown, duck, ducking, dunk, dunking, dye,
   emblazon, enamel, engild, engulf, engulfment, exchange colors,
   extraction, face, fall, fall away, fall off, falling-off, falloff,
   farthing dip, fast-dye, feather, fingersmith, fishtail,
   fixing bath, flag, flag down, flash, float, flood, flow on, fold,
   follicle, fork, fresco, funnel chest, gild, give a signal,
   give the nod, glance, glaze, gloss, go down, go downhill,
   go uphill, grade, grain, hail, hail and speak, half-mast, hang,
   hanging, hock, hoist a banner, hole, hollow, hollow shell, hue,
   illuminate, imbue, immerge, immergence, immerse, immersion,
   impairment, impignorate, incline, ingrain, inundate, inundation,
   japan, keel, kick, lacquer, lacuna, lade, ladle, lay on color,
   lean, leer, lessening, light-fingered gentry, list, loop,
   make a sign, mercury bath, merge, mobsman, mortgage, nod,
   nose-dive, nudge, overwhelm, paint, parget, pickpocket, pigment,
   pit, pitch, pledge, plow, plunge, plunge in water, pocket, poke,
   pop, porpoise, pour, pour on, prime, pull out, pull up, punch bowl,
   push down, rain, raise a cry, rake, reduction, remission,
   retraction, retreat, retrenchment, rise, roll, rush candle,
   rushlight, sag, salute, scoop, set, shade, shadow, sheep dip,
   sheer, shell, shellac, shelve, shortening, shovel, shrinkage,
   sideslip, sidle, sign, signal, signalize, sink, sinkage, sinkhole,
   sinking, sinus, skew, skid, slant, slip, slop on paint, slope,
   slue, sluice, slump, smear, socket, sound an alarm,
   sound the trumpet, souse, sousing, spade, speak, spin, spiral,
   spoon, spout, sprinkle, stain, stipple, stoop, stunt, submerge,
   submergence, submerse, submersion, swag, swamp, sway,
   swell-mobsman, tallow candle, tallow dip, taper, tilt, tinct,
   tincture, tinge, tint, tip, tone, touch, trough, truncation,
   tumble, undercoat, undulate, unfurl a flag, uprise, varnish, veer,
   votary candle, vug, wash, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand,
   wax candle, whelm, whitewash, wink, wire, yaw



V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

DIP
       Dial-up Internet Protocol (Linux)


V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

DIP
       Dual In-line Package (IC, DRAM)


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

DIP

   1. Dual In-line Package.

   2. Document Image Processing.