pip
IPA: pˈɪp
noun
- Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
- (humorous, dated) Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
- (obsolete) A pippin, seed of any kind.
- (UK) A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as a peach, orange, or apple.
- (US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
- (Britain, dated, World War I, signalese) P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
- One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
- (military, public service) One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
- A spot; a speck.
- A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
- A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
- One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
- (finance, currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
- A diminutive form of the given names Philip, Phillip, and Philippa.
- (television) Initialism of picture-in-picture. [(television) A feature of some television receivers and similar devices, where one program or channel is displayed on the full TV screen while another is displayed in an inset window.]
- (military) Initialism of predicted impact point.
- (business) Initialism of performance improvement plan.
- (business) Acronym of product improvement program.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of peak inspiratory pressure.
verb
- (transitive) To remove the pips from.
- To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.
- To hit with a gunshot.
- To peep, to chirp
- (ornithology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg
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