Fellow Pluck users can dip into the shared folder of links to see all the gathered information, saving time and e-mail traffic for co-workers collaborating on research for a company project or for couples furniture-shopping for a new house.

About a blind student across the table from him, Mr. Bell's narrator reports, "His thumb dipped surreptitiously over the rim of a glass to see how full it was, while a forefinger tested the edge of his plate."

In the half-hour before she could expect to find Marijke in the chat room, Petra browsed the web, dipping in and out of various serial killer sites to see if she could find any correspondences between recorded cases and the particular fetishes of their own killer.

I might dip back later to see if James has either resigned or reacted to the public and licence payers' optinion.