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Sipped vs Zipped - What's the difference?

sipped | zipped |

As verbs the difference between sipped and zipped

is that sipped is (sip) while zipped is (zip).

sipped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sip)

  • 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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    zipped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (zip)

  • zip

    English

    Etymology 1

    Onomatopoeic.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms
    * (sound) whizz, zing * (fastener) slide fastener, zip fastener, zipper (chiefly US )

    Interjection

    (en-interj)!
  • The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
  • Synonyms
    * whee!, whizz!, zing!

    Verb

  • To close with a zip fastener.
  • (figuratively) To close as if with a zip fastener.
  • zip one's lip
  • (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.
  • The bullet zipped through the air.
  • (colloquial) (followed by a preposition ) To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).
  • Zip down to the shops for some milk.
  • To make (something) move quickly
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=December 27 , author=Mike Henson , title=Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Tottenham also initially struggled to create genuine goal-scoring opportunities, with Bale, Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaart zipping passes around to little effect.}}
  • To travel on a zipline.
  • Derived terms
    () * unzip * zip- * zip down * Zip drive * zip file * zip-front * zip it * zip one's lip * zip up * zip wire, zip-wire
    Synonyms
    * (close with a zip fastener) zip up

    Etymology 2

    From zip code

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) Shortened form of ZIP code, the US postal code.
  • (US) Any postal code, for any country.
  • See also
    * postcode (UK ) * postal code (UK )