dip vs dabble

dip is a noun but dabble is not a noun.

dip and dabble both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dip	Yes	No	Yes	No
dabble	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, dabble is a hyponym of dip; that is, dabble is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dip:

dip: immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
dabble: dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid

Other hyponyms of dip include sop, dip, douse, duck.

dip (noun)	dabble (noun)
a brief swim in water
a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
a brief immersion
tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
(physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
a depression in an otherwise level surface

dip (verb)	dabble (verb)
stain an object by immersing it in a liquid	dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
go down momentarily	bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water
dip into a liquid while eating	play in or as if in water, as of small children
immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate	work with in an amateurish manner
plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
immerse in a disinfectant solution
scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
dip into a liquid
appear to move downward
slope downwards
lower briefly
switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
take a small amount from

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