tip
IPA: tˈɪp
noun
- The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
- A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
- (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
- A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
- A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
- Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”)
- (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
- An act of tipping up or tilting.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
- (colloquial) A very untidy place.
- The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
- A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
- (now rare) A light blow or tap.
- A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.
- A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
- A piece of advice.
- (Australia) A prediction or bet about the outcome of something.
- (African-American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
- (African-American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
- (computing) Initialism of Tertiary Ideographic Plane, the fourth 65,536-codepoint plane in Unicode (from U+30000 through U+3FFFF).
- (sports) Abbreviation of Tipperary. [A county of Ireland.]
- (possibly offensive) Initialism of trans-identified person.
verb
- (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
- (ergative) (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
- (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
- To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.
- (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
- (transitive) To dump (refuse).
- (US, transitive) To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
- (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
- (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
- To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
- (thieves′ slang) To give, pass.
- To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
- (Australia) To predict or bet on something having a particular outcome.
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Examples of "tip" in Sentences
- But thanks for the tip.
- It was at the tip of the spear.
- The islet is the tip of a volcano.
- The positive signal is in the tip.
- The client gave us a tip of information.
- This is literally the tip of the iceberg.
- It is the width from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger.
- The measurement is from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger.
- A slot in the tip of the body temporarily secures the electrode to the tip.
- The ink on the tip evaporates and leaves desired molecules attached to the tip.
- I find this label tip to be great as it allows one to accomplish one of the three R's,
- The other tip is always to add cold aubergines to very hot oil – never cold oil to hot aubergines.
- This tip is actually selective since some people find chairs that they just have to use first but generally, it is better to look for the table first.
- My first thought too, the dief and why I put a title tip on the link to the publisher as a sort of warning if people wanted to avoid commercial promotion.
- Another tip is always carry some arrows with field points while on stand, if you want to shoot some small game to pass the time you don 't need to waste exspensive broadheads.
- The lower portion of the sirloin, called the sirloin tip, is used for tip steaks or tip roast, but this is not a common cut in Mexico, and for a sirloin tip roast, order aguayón en trozo.
- To me, a tip is a way of saying - you provided me with a service, thanks for a job well done, the next time I'm here please don't spit in my food/put my eggs on the bottom of the bag/ruin my cuticles.