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Nip vs Yip - What's the difference?

nip | yip |

As nouns the difference between nip and yip

is that nip is a small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor while yip is a sharp, high-pitched bark.

As verbs the difference between nip and yip

is that nip is to catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon while yip is to bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice.

As an initialism NIP

is national Immunization Program.

nip

English

(Webster 1913)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
    • I’ll just take a nip of that cake.
    He had a nip of whiskey.
    Synonyms
    * nibble (of food) * See also

    Etymology 2

    Diminutive of nipple .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (vulgar) A nipple, usually of a woman.

    • Etymology 3

    Probably from a form of (etyl) nipen. Cognate with (etyl) ; (etyl) knebti.

    Verb

    (nipp)
  • To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
  • *
  • To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
  • * '>citation
  • To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
  • To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
  • *

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A playful bite.
    • The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip .
  • A pinch with the nails or teeth.
  • Briskly cold weather.
    • There is a nip''' in the air. It is '''nippy outside.
  • * 1915 , :
    • 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.
  • 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.
  • *
    • Derived terms
    * nip and tuck * nip in the bud

    Etymology 4

    Verb

    (nipp)
  • To make a quick, short journey or errand; usually roundtrip.
    • Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    yip

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sharp, high-pitched bark.
  • *

    • Verb

  • To bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice.
    • ---- ==Kir-Balar==

    Noun

    (head)
  • water

    • References

    * Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, ISBN 9042908262), page 38