Definitions for dabble
ˈdæb əldab·ble

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. dabbleverb

   dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid

2. dabble, paddle, splash aroundverb

   play in or as if in water, as of small children

3. dabble, smatter, play aroundverb

   work with in an amateurish manner

   "She dabbles in astronomy"; "He plays around with investments but he never makes any money"

4. dabbleverb

   bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water

   "dabbling ducks"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dabbleverb

   To partially wet (something) by splashing or dipping; connotes playfulness.

   The children sat on the dock and dabbled their feet in the water.

2. dabbleverb

   To participate or have an interest in, but not so seriously.

   She's an actress by trade, but has been known to dabble in poetry.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To DABBLEverb

   To smear; to daub; to spatter; to besprinkle; to wet.

   Etymology: dabbelen, Dutch.

   Then came by
   A shadow like an angel, with bright hair
   Dabbled in blood. William Shakespeare, Richard III.

   I scarified, and dabbled the wound with oil of turpentine. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

   Mean while the South, rising with dabbled wings,
   A sable cloud athwart the welkin flings. Jonathan Swift.

2. To Dabbleverb

   1. To play in water; to move in water or mud.

   Neither will a spirit, that dwells with stars, dabble in this impurer mud. Joseph Glanvill, Apology.

   The little one complained of her legs, that she could neither swim nor dabble with them. Roger L'Estrange.

   But when he found the boys at play,
   And saw them dabbling in their clay,
   He stood behind a stall to lurk,
   And mark the progress of their work. Jonathan Swift.

   2. To do any thing in a slight, superficial, or shallow manner; to tamper.

   William Shakespeare shall bear it company, and be put into your hands, as clear and as fair as it came out of them; though you, I think, have been dabbling here and there with the text, I have had no more reverence for the writer, and the printer, and left every thing standing just as I found it. Alexander Pope.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dabble

   Dabble is an anagram word game designed by George Weiss, who was 84 years old at the time, and published by INI, LLC in 2011.An app version was Kotaku's gaming app of the day in 2012.

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1. dabble

   Dabble is a verb that means to take part in an activity in a casual or superficial way. It often implies a lack of commitment or seriousness about the activity in question. It can also mean to immerse slightly into a liquid or to splash or move things around gently.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dabbleverb

   to wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet

2. Dabbleverb

   to play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water

3. Dabbleverb

   to work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a small way; to tamper; to meddle

4. Etymology: [Freq. of dab: cf. OD. dabbelen.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dabble

   Dabble is a video search and social community. They index video from around the web (like at Youtube, iFilm, Brightcove, Comedy Central, Revver, etc) and make it searchable, though the video continues to live out at those sites. They also have a social community that selects video it finds interesting for discovery.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dabble

   dab′l, v.t. to spatter with moisture.—v.i. to play in water with hands or feet: to do anything in a trifling way.—n. Dabb′ler, one who does things superficially.—adv. Dabb′lingly. [Freq. of Dab.]

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1. Dabble

   Dabble is a video search service. Dabble searches over 2,000 sources of videos and has 500+ partnerships. Users can search for the latest video on the Internet from places like Blip.tv, Clipshack, YouTube and LiveVideo, as well as some really cool archival video from places like the Internet Archive’s Moving Images website. Perhaps what makes Dabble special is the way it goes about searching for videos. It searches the data around the video as well as gives relevance to videos with human preference activity inside Dabble and outside in other communities and blogs. Dabble also has a social community for grouping videos and for user-made media. While it is not necessary to join Dabble to find videos, registered members are able to collect videos, tag them, and organize favorites. Competitors in video search include giants Google, Yahoo and AOL (myVidster),(Truveo), as well as Pixsy, Blinkx, ClipBlast, EveryZing, and CastTV

Matched Categories

1. • Bob
   • Dip
   • Play

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How to pronounce dabble?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

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   British

   Karen

   Australian

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   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

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   Oliver

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How to say dabble in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dabble in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dabble in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of dabble in a Sentence

1. Rick Rieder:

   People are looking for storehouses of value, we've started to dabble a bit into it.

2. William Wegman:

   I don't have a TV show. You're not going to have a huge following unless you have a franchise or a creature -- something that gets in your imagination, whereas I just kind of dabble in children's books, everything that I do is sort of that way.

3. E.C. Stedman:

   Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dabble
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dabble
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=dabble
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabble
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dabble
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=dabble
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=dabble
9. ^ CrunchBase
   https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dabble
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=dabble