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Pip vs Nip - What's the difference?

pip | nip |

As nouns the difference between pip and nip

is that pip is any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza while nip is a small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.

As verbs the difference between pip and nip

is that pip is to get the better of; to defeat while 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.

As a proper noun Pip

is a diminutive form of the given names Philip, Phillip, and Philippa.

As an initialism NIP is

national Immunization Program.

pip

English

(pip)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) pippe, from Middle (etyl) pip, from post-classical (etyl) pipita, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
  • (humorous) Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
  • * , letter to Edward Garnett
  • I've got the pip horribly at present.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter IV , passage=With this deal Uncle Tom's got on with Homer Cream, it would be fatal to risk giving [Mrs Cream] the pip in any way.}}
    Derived terms
    * like a chicken with the pip

    Etymology 2

    Apparently representing a shortened form of pippin, from (etyl) pipin, from (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A pippin.
  • A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as a peach, orange, or apple.
  • (US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 612:
  • She sure is a pip , that one. You need company?
  • (British, dated, WW I, signalese) P in (RAF phonetic alphabet)
  • Derived terms
    * pip emma

    Etymology 3

    Origin uncertain, perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
  • (military, public service) One of the stars worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
  • A spot; a speck.
  • A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
  • A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
  • Synonyms
    * (symbol on playing card etc) spot

    Verb

  • To get the better of; to defeat
  • He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post.
  • To hit with a gunshot
  • The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.

    Etymology 4

    Imitative.

    Verb

  • To peep, to chirp
  • (avian biology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg
  • Etymology 5

    Imitative.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment if he is to continue his call.
  • Synonyms
    * (sense) stroke

    Etymology 6

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (finance, currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
  • Anagrams

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    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

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