Foot braking involves dipping your foot and dragging it against the ground while moving.
The guy poking the TV screens with a paint roller in the photo above is the resourceful leader of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Daniel, who's become an internet superstar after developing a new blessing technique that involves dipping a paint roller in holy water and using it to bless hard-to-reach surfaces.
She started our conversation by offering a recipe that involves dipping dandelion blooms in pancake batter and frying them until they are golden.
The rudder, a movable panel at the back of a plane's tail fin, is sometimes used for turning, a maneuver that also typically involves dipping one wing downward.
The traditional way to preserve nectarines and peaches involves dipping them in boiling water to release the skins, spiking with cloves and covering with brandy, à la Monet's Jar Of Peaches.
A particularly tricky process involves dipping fibre into sulphuric acid to create toeholds that, after being soaked in palladium salt and a nickel-plating solution, become encrusted with nickel crystals.
The raclette (€22), made with Swiss cheese from the Valais, is melted on a hot stone and eaten with gherkins, while the fondue (€32-36) involves dipping skewers of bread, fruit and meats into either melted cheese or boiling oil.
The prick-prick procedure, which involves dipping the tip of the skin lancet into a cut portion of the fresh fruit and then pricking the skin with the fruit residue, was used in testing the fruits.
His method, such as it was, involved dipping deep under the water and hanging there like a hippo, then batting his arms till he crested for air, and then diving down again and hanging.
It has been possible to manufacture the gem for more than a century, using a process involving dipping a small "seed" into a vat of molten aluminium oxide, of which sapphire is a crystal.
