Tipping vs Topple - What's the difference?
tipping | topple |
The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).
The act by which something is tipped or inclined.
* 2013 , Peter Andersson, Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd
The dumping of rubbish.
(music) A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.
to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something
* The massed crowds toppled the statue of the former dictator
to totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so
* The pile of pennies began to topple
As verbs the difference between tipping and topple
is that tipping is present participle of lang=en while topple is to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something.As a noun tipping
is the practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).tipping
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hat-tippings and cap-doffings are of course of a different nature to more elaborate verbal greetings. In etiquette manuals they may be described as incentives to a conversation, but in practice they seem to have been quite ceremonial.