dipsticking

Verb

dipstick (third-person singular simple present dipsticks, present participle dipsticking, simple past and past participle dipsticked)

1. (transitive) To check (a person) for their understanding of something, as of a lesson, or attitude toward something.
   • What most educators mean by “doing Madeline Hunter” is using her seven-step approach to planning a lesson. In Santa Barbara, as in most of her road shows, several hours are devoted to spelling out this technique, which calls for specific acts of review, introduction, explanation, “modeling”...1990 August 12, David L. Kirp, “The classroom according to Hunter”, in Los Angeles Times
2. (transitive) To measure the level of a fluid using a dipstick.
   • If one of the fuel gauges is inoperative (flight is not permitted if both have failed), the tanks have to be dipsticked before and after each fueling to confirm the aircraft's fuel status.

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