Tip

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English

Noun

Tip (plural Tips)
  1. The extreme top 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.
  2. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
  3. (music) the end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held

Verb

Tip (third-person singular simple present Tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)

  1. (transitive) 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 [...].

Verb

Tip (third-person singular simple present Tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)

  1. (transitive) To knock over; to make fall down, to overturn.
  2. (intransitive) To fall over.
  3. (intransitive) 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 [...].
  4. (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
  5. (transitive) To dump (refuse).
  6. (US) (transitive) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.

Derived terms

Noun

Tip (plural Tips)
  1. (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
  2. An act of tipping up or tilting.
  3. (New Zealand, UK, Australian) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.
  4. (colloquial) A very untidy place.

Verb

Tip (third-person singular simple present Tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)

  1. (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.

Noun

Tip (plural tips)
  1. (now rare) A light blow or tap.

Verb

Tip (third-person singular simple present Tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)

  1. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
  2. (thieves' slang) To give, pass.

Noun

Tip (plural Tips)
  1. 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.

Noun

Tip (plural Tips)
  1. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.

Derived terms

Terms derived from tip (noun, etym. 5)

Verb

Tip (third-person singular simple present Tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)

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

Derived terms

Verbs for Tip

cap—; crown—; daub on—; gild—; impale on—; veneer—; whet—; —bristles; —penetrates; —pierces; —projects; —protrudes; —punctures ; —stabs.

Thesaurus

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Pronunciation

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 tæppa.

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

Of uncertain origin; apparently cognate with Dutch tippen, German tippen, Swedish tippa.

Etymology 4

Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain orign.

Etymology 5

Probably from to tip (“give, pass”) or to tip (“tap”), or a combination of the two.

Translations

Noun

extreme top of something

Verb

cause something to be in a tilted position

Noun

area or place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap

Noun

small amount of money left for a servant as a token of appreciation

Synonyms

Noun

piece of private information

Verb

Tip (third-person singular simple present Tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)

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

Derived terms

inform police or investigators of a potential clue

Translations

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Anagrams

Catalan

Adjective

  1. full, as in sated or satisfied (including to excess)

Noun

Tip m. (plural Tips)

  1. excess (of food or drink)

Dutch

Verb

Tip

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tippen.
  2. imperative of tippen.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪp

Anagrams

Romanian

Noun

Tip m. (plural tipi; feminine equivalent tipă)

  1. guy

Declension

declension of Tip
singular plural
gender m. indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative un Tip Tipul niște Tipi Tipii
genitive/dative unui Tip Tipului unor Tipi Tipilor
vocative — tipule — Tipilor
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Noun

Tip n. (plural tipuri)

  1. prototype, model
  2. type, style

Declension

declension of Tip
singular plural
gender n. indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative un Tip Tipul niște Tipuri Tipurile
genitive/dative unui Tip Tipului unor Tipuri Tipurilor
vocative — — — —
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Synonyms

Etymology

French type, Latin typus

Pronunciation

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

tȋp m. (Cyrillic spelling ти̑п)

  1. type

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /tîːp/

Declension

    declension of Tip
singular plural
nominative tȋp típovi
genitive tipa típōvā
dative tipu tipovima
accusative tip tipove
vocative tipu tipovi
locative tipu tipovima
instrumental tipom tipovima

Slovene

Noun

Tip

  1. type

Pronunciation

Turkish

Noun

Tip

  1. type

Pronunciation

Declension

possessive forms of Tip</small>
nominative singular plural
benim (my) Tipim Tiplerim
senin (your) Tipin Tiplerin
onun (his/her/its) Tipi Tipleri
bizim (our) Tipimiz Tiplerimiz
sizin (your) Tipiniz Tipleriniz
onların (their) Tipleri Tipleri
accusative singular plural
benim (my) Tipimi Tiplerimi
senin (your) Tipini Tiplerini
onun (his/her/its) Tipini Tiplerini
bizim (our) Tipimizi Tiplerimizi
sizin (your) Tipinizi Tiplerinizi
onların (their) Tiplerini Tiplerini
dative singular plural
benim (my) Tipime Tiplerime
senin (your) Tipine Tiplerine
onun (his/her/its) Tipine Tiplerine
bizim (our) Tipimize Tiplerimize
sizin (your) Tipinize Tiplerinize
onların (their) Tiplerine Tiplerine
locative singular plural
benim (my) Tipimde Tiplerimde
senin (your) Tipinde Tiplerinde
onun (his/her/its) Tipinde Tiplerinde
bizim (our) Tipimizde Tiplerimizde
sizin (your) Tipinizde Tiplerinizde
onların (their) Tiplerinde Tiplerinde
ablative singular plural
benim (my) Tipimden Tiplerimden
senin (your) Tipinden Tiplerinden
onun (his/her/its) Tipinden Tiplerinden
bizim (our) Tipimizden Tiplerimizden
sizin (your) Tipinizden Tiplerinizden
onların (their) Tiplerinden Tiplerinden
genitive singular plural
benim (my) Tipimin Tiplerimin
senin (your) Tipinin Tiplerinin
onun (his/her/its) Tipinin Tiplerinin
bizim (our) Tipimizin Tiplerimizin
sizin (your) Tipinizin Tiplerinizin
onların (their) Tiplerinin Tiplerinin
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