Lip vs Tip - What's the difference?
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(countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
* Bible, Jeb. xv. 6
(countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
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(countable) The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.
(slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
The edge of a high spot of land.
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* 1894 , David Livingstone, A Popular Account of Dr Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries ,
The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
(botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
(botany) The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.
(zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
To touch with the lips; to kiss or lick; to lap the lips against something.
* Praed
* Shakespeare
To utter verbally.
To simulate speech merely by lip-movement, as suffices for a lip-reader.
(sports) to make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
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The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
* 1848 , (Anne Bronte), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall :
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, title= 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.
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.
Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
(Webster 1913)
To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
* 1598 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act V:
* Hudibras
* Thomson
To knock over; to make fall down, to overturn.
To fall over.
To be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; to become unbalanced.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
(transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
To dump (refuse).
(US) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
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To deflect with one?s fingers, especially one?s fingertips
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(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.
* 1972 May 18, Jon Tinker, Must we waste rubbish?'', '' ,
* 2009 , Donna Kelly,
* 2009 , Rother District Council,
* 2009 , Beck Vass, 'Computer collectibles saved from the tip'
(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
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* Jonathan Swift
To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
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A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.
* 1897 , Bram Stoker, Dracula :
A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
A piece of advice.
To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
(AAVE) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
(AAVE) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
As an adverb lip
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English
Noun
- Thine own lips testify against thee.
- Don’t give me any lip !
- They toiled forward along a tiny path on the river’s lip . Suddenly it vanished. The bank was sheer red solid clay in front of them, sloping straight into the river.
- We landed at the head of Garden Island, which is situated near the middle of the river and on the lip' of the Falls. On reaching that ' lip , and peering over the giddy height, the wondrous and unique character of the magnificent cascade at once burst upon us.
Synonyms
* (either of the fleshy protrusions around the mouth) labium (medical term ) * (part of body resembling a lip) labium (medical) * (rim of an open container) edge, rim * (impertinence) backchat, cheek (informal), impudence, rudenessDerived terms
* black lip * cleft lip * fat lip * lip gloss * lipless * liplike * lip-lock * lipped * lipping * lippy * lip-read * lip-reader * lip service * lip-smacking * lipstick * lip-strap * lip-synch * loose lip * tight-lippedVerb
- The bubble on the wine which breaks / Before you lip the glass.
- A hand that kings / Have lipped and trembled kissing.
- (Keats)
tip
English
Etymology 1
Circa 1225. Not recorded in Old English or Old Norse, but apparently cognate with Dutch tip, East Frisian tip, Danish tip, Swedish tipp. Perhaps cognate with Old English . Compare Albanian .Noun
(en noun)- When he woke up, about half an hour after, he called it to him again, but Dash only looked sheepish and wagged the tip of his tail.
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Synonyms
*(extreme end of something) extremityVerb
(tipp)- I thinke he thinkes vpon the sauage bull: / Tush, feare not man, wee'll tip thy hornes with gold, / And all Europa shall reioyce at thee [...].
- truncheon tipped with iron head
- Tipped with jet, / Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.
Etymology 2
Possibly from Scandinavian, or a special use of Etymology 1.Verb
(tipp)- the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two [...].
- I tip my 40 to your memory.
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Derived terms
* tip off * tip one's hand * tip one's hat * tippableNoun
(en noun)page 389,
- As the tip slowly squashes under its own weight, bacteria rot away the organic matter, mainly anaerobically with the generation of methane.
'Don't dump on Hepburn's top tip'], [http://www.hepburnadvocate.com.au/, The Hepburn Advocate, Fairfax Digital
- When I was a kid I used to love going to the tip .
Rother District Council Website
- There are two rubbish tip s in Rother.
The New Zealand Herald, Technology section, APN Holdings NZ Ltd
- Computer collectibles saved from the tip
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Etymology 3
Of uncertain origin; apparently cognate with (etyl) tippen, (etyl) tippen, (etyl) tippa.Verb
(tipp)- A third rogue tips me by the elbow.
Noun
(tips)Etymology 4
Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain orign.Verb
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Derived terms
* tipper * tippingNoun
(en noun)- A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam [...] had left for his work at five o'clock that morning.