| NOUN | artifact | dipper | a ladle that has a cup with a long handle |
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| object | Dipper, Little Dipper | a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor | |
| object | Dipper, Big Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon | a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major | |
| animal | dipper, bufflehead, butterball, Bucephela albeola | small North American diving duck | |
| animal | dipper, water ouzel | small stocky diving bird without webbed feet |
| Sounds | dih'per | |
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| Rhymes | asper ... zipper: 139 rhymes with per... | |
| Meaning | A ladle that has a cup with a long handle. | |
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| Broader | ladle | A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle |
| Spanish | cucharón | |
| Verbs | dip | dip into a liquid / liquid while eating |
| dip | immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | |
| Meaning | A cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris. | |
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| Synonym | Little Dipper | |
| Instance of | asterism | (astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation) |
| Members | Polaris, North Star, pole star, polar star, polestar | The brightest star in Ursa Minor |
| Part of | Little Bear, Ursa Minor | A constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star |
| Spanish | Ursa Minor | |
| Catalan | Ursa Minor | |
| Meaning | A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major. | |
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| Synonyms | Big Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon | |
| Instance of | asterism | (astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation) |
| Part of | Great Bear, Ursa Major | A constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star |
| Spanish | arado, Ursa Major | |
| Catalan | UMa, Ursa Major | |
| Meaning | small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage. | |
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| Synonyms | bufflehead, butterball, Bucephela albeola | |
| Member of | Bucephala, genus Bucephala | buffleheads and goldeneyes |
| Broader | duck | small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs |
| Meaning | small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom. | |
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| Synonym | water ouzel | |
| Member of | Cinclidae, family Cinclidae | water ouzels |
| Narrower | American water ouzel, Cinclus mexicanus | A water ouzel of western North America |
| European water ouzel, Cinclus aquaticus | A water ouzel of Europe | |
| Broader | oscine, oscine bird | passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus |
| Spanish | cinclidae, mirlo acuático | |
| Catalan | cinclid | |
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