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pip | sip |

As nouns the difference between pip and sip

is that pip is any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza while sip is a small mouthful of drink.

As verbs the difference between pip and sip

is that pip is to get the better of; to defeat while sip is to drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.

As a proper noun Pip

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

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.

    • Related terms

    * pip to the post * pip at the post * pipsqueak * give the pip to, give someone the pip

    Anagrams

    * English palindromes ----

    sip

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small mouthful of drink

    • Verb

  • To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
    • He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=5 citation , passage=A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
       ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
  • To drink a small quantity.
  • * (John Dryden)
    • [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping , offered to the next in place.
  • To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
  • * (John Dryden)
    • They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.
  • (Scotland, US, dated)
    • (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * nurse * See also

    See also

    * seep * siphon

    Anagrams

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