Pipped vs Popped - What's the difference?
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(pip)
Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
(humorous) Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
* , letter to Edward Garnett
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(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:
(British, dated, WW I, signalese) P in (RAF phonetic alphabet)
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
To get the better of; to defeat
To hit with a gunshot
To peep, to chirp
(avian biology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg
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.
(finance, currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
(pop)
(label) A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
* 1941 , LIFE magazine, 8 September 1941, page 27:
A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
Shortened from (pop shot): a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. Possibly confusion, by assonance, with (pot) as in (pot shot).
(label) A portion, a quantity dispensed.
(label) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.
* 2011 , Mark Lutz, Programming Python , page 1371:
A bird, the European redwing.
(label) The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, crackle), i.e. the rate of change of crackle.
(label) To burst (something): to cause to burst.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , chapter 1:
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To act suddenly, unexpectedly or quickly.
To hit (something or someone).
(label) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
(label) To ejaculate.
(label) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
* 2010 , Enrico Perla, ?Massimiliano Oldani, A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core (page 55)
* 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed
(label) To place (something) (somewhere).
* Milton
To swallow (a tablet of a drug).
* 1994 , Ruth Garner and Patricia A. Alexander, Beliefs about text and instruction with text :
To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
* 1995 , David Brin, Startide Rising :
* 2009 , Ben Wixon, Skateboarding: Instruction, Programming, and Park Design :
To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.
To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; with in'', ''out'', ''upon , etc.
* Shakespeare
* Jonathan Swift
To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire.
To stand out, to be visually distinctive.
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As verbs the difference between pipped and popped
is that pipped is (pip) while popped is (pop).pipped
English
Verb
(head)pip
English
(pip)Etymology 1
From (etyl) pippe, from Middle (etyl) pip, from post-classical (etyl) pipita, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I've got the pip horribly at present.
Derived terms
* like a chicken with the pipEtymology 2
Apparently representing a shortened form of pippin, from (etyl) pipin, from (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- She sure is a pip , that one. You need company?
Derived terms
* pip emmaEtymology 3
Origin uncertain, perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (symbol on playing card etc) spotVerb
- He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post.
- The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.
Etymology 4
Imitative.Verb
Etymology 5
Imitative.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (sense) strokeEtymology 6
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* English palindromes ----popped
English
Verb
(head)pop
English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions.Noun
- The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop .
Synonyms
* (soda pop) see the list at (m)Derived terms
: (see below)Verb
(popp)- The waves came round her. She was a rock. She was covered with the seaweed which pops when it is pressed. He was lost.
- The court was told Robins had asked if she could use the oven to heat some baby food for her child. Knutton heard a loud popping' noise "like a crisp packet being ' popped " coming from the kitchen followed by a "screeching" noise. When she saw what had happened to the kitten she was sick in the sink.
- Once the callee (the called function) terminates, it cleans the stack that it has been locally using and pops the next value stored on top of the stack.
- The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
- He popped a paper into his hand.
- We were drinking beer and popping pills — some really strong downers. I could hardly walk and I had no idea what I was saying.
- Huck spun along the beams and joists, making me gulp when she popped a wheelie or swerved past a gaping hole...
- The tail is the back of the deck; this is the part that enables skaters to pop ollies...
- He that killed my king / Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.
- a trick of popping up and down every moment
- She also looked like a star - and not the Beltway type. On a stage full of stiff suits, she popped .