Tip vs Dot - What's the difference?

tip | dot |

As a noun tip

is type.

As an acronym dot is

department of transportation.

tip

English

Etymology 1

Circa 1225. Not recorded in Old English or Old Norse, but apparently cognate with Dutch tip, East Frisian tip, Danish tip, Swedish tipp. Perhaps cognate with Old English . Compare Albanian .

Noun

(en noun)

The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.

* 1848 , (Anne Bronte), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall :

When he woke up, about half an hour after, he called it to him again, but Dash only looked sheepish and wagged the tip of his tail.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.

A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.

(music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.

A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.

A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.

Rubbish thrown from a quarry.

(Webster 1913)

Synonyms

*(extreme end of something) extremity

Verb

(tipp)

To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.

* 1598 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act V:

I thinke he thinkes vpon the sauage bull: / Tush, feare not man, wee'll tip thy hornes with gold, / And all Europa shall reioyce at thee [...].

* Hudibras

truncheon tipped with iron head

* Thomson

Tipped with jet, / Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.

Etymology 2

Possibly from Scandinavian, or a special use of Etymology 1.

Verb

(tipp)

To knock over; to make fall down, to overturn.

To fall over.

To be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; to become unbalanced.

* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :

the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two [...].

(transitive, slang, dated) To drink.

To dump (refuse).

(US) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.

* 1993 , ”:

I tip my 40 to your memory.

To deflect with one?s fingers, especially one?s fingertips

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=September 28 , author=Jon Smith , title=Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Lampard was replaced by Kalou but the substitute immediately gave the ball to Jonas, whose 25-yard curler was tipped wide by Cech.}}

Derived terms

* tip off * tip one's hand * tip one's hat * tippable

Noun

(en noun)

(skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.

An act of tipping up or tilting.

(UK, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple ); a dump.

* 1972 May 18, Jon Tinker, Must we waste rubbish?'', '' , page 389,

As the tip slowly squashes under its own weight, bacteria rot away the organic matter, mainly anaerobically with the generation of methane.

* 2009 , Donna Kelly, 'Don't dump on Hepburn's top tip'], [http://www.hepburnadvocate.com.au/, The Hepburn Advocate, Fairfax Digital

When I was a kid I used to love going to the tip .

* 2009 , Rother District Council, Rother District Council Website

There are two rubbish tip s in Rother.

* 2009 , Beck Vass, 'Computer collectibles saved from the tip' The New Zealand Herald, Technology section, APN Holdings NZ Ltd

Computer collectibles saved from the tip

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.

(colloquial) A very untidy place.

The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.}}

Etymology 3

Of uncertain origin; apparently cognate with (etyl) tippen, (etyl) tippen, (etyl) tippa.

Verb

(tipp)

* Jonathan Swift

A third rogue tips me by the elbow.

Noun

(tips)

Etymology 4

Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain orign.

Verb

(tipp)

To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

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Derived terms

* tipper * tipping

Noun

(en noun)

A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.

* 1897 , Bram Stoker, Dracula :

A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam [...] had left for his work at five o'clock that morning.

Synonyms

* cumshaw * baksheesh

Etymology 5

Probably from , or a combination of the two.

Noun

(en noun)

A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.

A piece of advice.

Derived terms

* hot tip * stock tip * tip-off * tip sheet * tipster

Descendants

* German: (l)

Verb

(tipp)

To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.

Derived terms

* tip off

Etymology 6

Noun

(en noun)

(AAVE) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.

(AAVE) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.

References

* (English Citations of "tip")

Anagrams

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dot

English

(wikipedia dot)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A small spot.

a dot of colour

(grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.

A diacritical mark comprised of a small opaque circle above or below any of various letters of the Latin script. Examples include: ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, etc.

(mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.

One of the two symbols used in Morse code.

(obsolete) A lump or clot.

Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.

a dot of a child

(cricket, informal) A dot ball.

Synonyms

* (small spot) speck, spot * (at the end of a sentence or abbreviation) full stop (British), period (US), point * (as a diacritic) tittle (over the letters i and j) * (sense) decimal point * (in Morse code) dit

Derived terms

(terms derived from dot) * centered dot, centred dot * connect the dots * dotcom * dot matrix * dot matrix printer * dot product * dottel * dottle * dotty * join the dots * middle dot * off one's dot * on the dot * polka dot * the year dot

Verb

(dott)

To cover with small spots (of some liquid).

His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.

To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.

Dot your i''s and cross your ''t s.

To mark by means of dots or small spots.

to dot a line

To mark or diversify with small detached objects.

to dot a landscape with cottages

Derived terms

* dot do dot * dot the i's and cross the t's

Preposition

(English prepositions)

Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.

The work is equal to F dot ?x.

Coordinate terms

* *

Etymology 2

From (etyl) dot.

Alternative forms

* dote

Noun

(en noun)

(US, Louisiana) A dowry.

* 1919 , , (The Moon and Sixpence) ,

"Have you the pictures still?" I asked.

"Yes; I am keeping them till my daughter is of marriageable age, and then I shall sell them. They will be her dot ."

* 1927 , Anna Bowman Dodd, Talleyrand: the Training of a Statesman :

As a bride, Madame de Talleyrand had brought a small dot of fifteen thousand francs to the family fund.

Anagrams

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