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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Examples of "pip" in Sentences
- The call is a rapid pip pip pip.
- Arsenal pip United to the title.
- The call is a rapid pip pip pip .
- The call is a rapid 'pip pip pip'.
- PIP is simply not a legitimate biography.
- The call is a rapid repeated pip pip pip .
- The call is a rapid repeated 'pip pip pip'.
- That would terrify me if Pip was in the house.
- All pips on a crosswise double are included in the count.
- The officer who was in charge of the o'pip is here today.
- "Perhaps he only has the pip, which is not nearly so bad."
- In all pairs involving the Japanese Yen (JPY), a pip is the
- The call is a high musical 'pip pip pip pip' or 'kitty kitty kitty'.
- The orange tree is produced from the pip, which is sown in a sheltered uncovered bed.
- The pip was a Class A, racing after the outgoing signal like a greyhound after a mechanical rabbit.
- In all other currency pairs, a pip is the 1/10,000 the place -- 4 places to the right of the decimal.
- The irony being, if Spurs do become legitimate contenders for the title and pip City to it, therefore Man City sponsor their own downfall.
- Easter cards, then becomes hideously naked, eats quantities of corn and meal bought by the sweat of your father's brow, gets diseases called pip, cholera, and other names, stands looking with stupid eyes at the sun, becomes sick and dies.
- It is born out of an egg, lives for a few weeks as a tiny fluffy thing such as you will see pictured on Easter postcards, then becomes hideously naked, eats quantities of corn and meal bought by the sweat of your father's brow, gets diseases called pip, cholera, and other names, stands looking with stupid eyes at the sun, becomes sick and dies.