activity dip

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• dip/put/stick a toe in the water — informal : to try an activity briefly to see if you like it I m not sure I want to join, but I d like to dip a toe in the water. • • • Main Entry: ↑toe …   Useful english dictionary

• dip — I. n 1. a fool. This word, first heard in the 1970s, is either a back formation from dippy or a short form of dipstick or dipshit. ► All those people out there, they re just complete dips. (Recorded, American teenager, London, 1988) 2. a… …   Contemporary slang

• Skinny Dip (novel) — infobox Book | name = Skinny Dip title orig = translator = image caption = First edition cover author = Carl Hiaasen cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Novel publisher = Alfred A. Knopf release date = 2004… …   Wikipedia

• double-dip recession — ➔ recession * * * double dip recession UK US noun [C] (also double dip) ECONOMICS ► a period of time during which economic activity goes down, increases a little, and then goes down again: »Lower interest rates may help the economy avoid a double …   Financial and business terms

• Line of dip — Line Line, n. [OE. line, AS. l[=i]ne cable, hawser, prob. from L. linea a linen thread, string, line, fr. linum flax, thread, linen, cable; but the English word was influenced by F. ligne line, from the same L. word linea. See {Linen}.] 1. A… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• double-dip — 1. noun a) An ice cream cone with two scoops of ice cream. We each got double dips with chocolate on top and strawberry on the bottom. b) A hill that levels off for a while about halfway down. 2. verb …   Wiktionary

• double-dip — American double dipping the activity of receiving money from two different places or two different jobs, often when it is not honest or legal. It is tempting for physicians to double dip by sending their patients to labs they have a financial… …   New idioms dictionary

• Economic Affairs — ▪ 2006 Introduction In 2005 rising U.S. deficits, tight monetary policies, and higher oil prices triggered by hurricane damage in the Gulf of Mexico were moderating influences on the world economy and on U.S. stock markets, but some other… …   Universalium

• Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview        Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …   Universalium

• earthquake — /errth kwayk /, n. 1. a series of vibrations induced in the earth s crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating. 2. something that is severely disruptive; upheaval. [1300 50; ME erthequake …   Universalium

• Functional magnetic resonance imaging — Functional MRI or functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a type of specialized MRI scan. It measures the haemodynamic response related to neural activity in the brain or spinal cord of humans or other animals. It is one of the most… …   Wikipedia