Sipped vs Zipped - What's the difference?
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(sip)
To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
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* (John Dryden)
To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
* (John Dryden)
(Scotland, US, dated)
(Webster 1913)
(zip)
The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
Energy; vigor; vim.
(British, NZ) A zip fastener.
Zero; nothing.
A trip on a zipline.
(computing, informal) A zip file.
To close with a zip fastener.
(figuratively) To close as if with a zip fastener.
(computing) To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.
(followed by a preposition ) To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.
(colloquial) (followed by a preposition ) To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).
To make (something) move quickly
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To travel on a zipline.
(US) Shortened form of ZIP code, the US postal code.
(US) Any postal code, for any country.
As verbs the difference between sipped and zipped
is that sipped is (sip) while zipped is (zip).sipped
English
Verb
(head)sip
English
Verb
- 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.
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‘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.’}}
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.}}
- [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping , offered to the next in place.
- They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.
Synonyms
* nurse * See alsoSee also
* seep * siphonAnagrams
* ----zipped
English
Verb
(head)zip
English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (sound) whizz, zing * (fastener) slide fastener, zip fastener, zipper (chiefly US )Synonyms
* whee!, whizz!, zing!Verb
- zip one's lip
- The bullet zipped through the air.
- Zip down to the shops for some milk.
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