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A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
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To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
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To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
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A playful bite.
A pinch with the nails or teeth.
Briskly cold weather.
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A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
(nautical) A short turn in a rope. Nip and tuck, a phrase signifying equality in a contest. [Low, U.S.]
The place of intersection where one roll touches another in papermaking.
A pickpocket.
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To make a quick, short journey or errand; usually roundtrip.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As an initialism nip
is (us) national immunization program.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.nip
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I’ll just take a nip of that cake.
- He had a nip of whiskey.
Synonyms
* nibble (of food) * See alsoEtymology 2
Diminutive of nipple .Etymology 3
Probably from a form of (etyl) nipen. Cognate with (etyl) ; (etyl) knebti.Verb
(nipp)Noun
(en noun)- The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip .
- There is a nip''' in the air. It is '''nippy outside.
- The day had only just broken, and there was a nip in the air; but the sky was cloudless, and the sun was shining yellow.
Derived terms
* nip and tuck * nip in the budEtymology 4
Verb
(nipp)- Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?
Anagrams
* * ----false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}