Tipt vs Dipt - What's the difference?

tipt | dipt |

In obsolete terms the difference between tipt and dipt

is that tipt is past tense of tip while dipt is past tense of dip.

tipt

English

Verb

(head)

(obsolete) (tip)

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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)

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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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dipt

English

Verb

(head)

(obsolete) (dip)

dip

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) dippen, from (etyl) dyppan, from (etyl) , Dutch dopen, German taufen.

Noun

(en noun)

A lower section of a road or geological feature.

There is a dip in the road ahead.

Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.

The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.

* Glover

the dip of oars in unison

A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.

A dip stick.

A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.

I'm going for a dip before breakfast.

(colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.

* 1906 , Fred L. Boalt, " The Snitcher", McClure's Magazine v.26, p.633

The Moocher was a "dip " in a dilettante sort of way, and his particular graft was boarding street-cars with his papers and grabbing women's pocket-books.

A sauce for dipping.

This onion dip is just scrumptious.

(geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.

(archaic) A dipped candle.

(Marryat)

Derived terms

* lucky dip

Verb

(dipp)

To lower into a liquid.

Dip your biscuit into your tea .

* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21

He dipped the end of a towel in cold water and with it began to flick him on the face, his wife all the while holding her face between her hands and sobbing in a way that was heart breaking to hear.

To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.

* Coleridge

The sun's rim dips ; the stars rush out.

(of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.

To lower a light's beam.

Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.

To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.

“The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.”

To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.

The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.

To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.

To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.

To immerse for baptism.

(Fuller)

* Charles Wheatly, A rational illustration of the Book of Common Prayer

during the reigns of King James and King Charles I, there were but very few children dipped in the font.

To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.

* Milton

A cold shuddering dew / Dips me all o'er.

To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

* Dryden

He was dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.

To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out .

to dip''' water from a boiler; to '''dip out water

To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.

* L'Estrange

Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot.

To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.

* Dryden

Live on the use and never dip thy lands.

To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.

To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.

Strata of rock dip .

Derived terms

* dipper * you don't dip your pen in company ink

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

A foolish person.

Anagrams

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