Lip vs X - What's the difference?
lip | x |
(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.
* 1913 ,
* 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.
1000 English basic words
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The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As an adverb lip
is .As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.lip
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)