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Definitions for tip
tɪptip

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tipnoun

    the extreme end of something; especially something pointed

  2. gratuity, tip, pourboire, baksheesh, bakshish, bakshis, backsheeshnoun

    a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)

  3. tip, lead, steer, confidential information, wind, hintnoun

    an indication of potential opportunity

    "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job"

  4. point, tip, peaknoun

    a V shape

    "the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points"

  5. peak, crown, crest, top, tip, summitverb

    the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)

    "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered to the tip of Monadnock"; "the region is a few molecules wide at the summit"

  6. tipverb

    cause to tilt

    "tip the screen upward"

  7. tipverb

    mark with a tip

    "tip the arrow with the small stone"

  8. tip, fee, bungverb

    give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on

    "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward"

  9. topple, tumble, tipverb

    cause to topple or tumble by pushing

  10. lean, tilt, tip, slant, angleverb

    to incline or bend from a vertical position

    "She leaned over the banister"

  11. tiptoe, tip, tippytoeverb

    walk on one's toes

  12. tap, tipverb

    strike lightly

    "He tapped me on the shoulder"

  13. tip off, tipverb

    give insider information or advise to

    "He tipped off the police about the terrorist plot"

  14. tipverb

    remove the tip from

    "tip artichokes"

Wiktionary

  1. tipnoun

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

  2. tipnoun

    A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.

  3. Etymology: Probably from tip or tip, or a combination of the two.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tipnoun

    Top; end; point; extremity.

    Etymology: tip, tipken, Dutch.

    The tip no jewel needs to wear,
    The tip is jewel of the ear. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

    They touch the beard with the tip of their tongue, and wet it. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 494.

    Thrice upon thy fingers tip,
    Thrice upon thy rubied lip. John Milton.

    All the pleasure dwells upon the tip of his tongue. South.

    She has fifty private amours, which nobody yet knows any thing of but herself, and thirty clandestine marriages that have not been touched by the tip of the tongue. Addison.

    I no longer look upon lord Plausible as ridiculous, for admiring a lady’s fine tip of an ear and pretty elbow. Alexander Pope.

  2. To Tipverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    In his hand a reed
    Stood waving, tipp’d with fire. John Milton, Par. Lost.

    With truncheon tipp’d with iron head,
    The warriour to the lists he led. Hudibras, p. i.

    How would the old king smile
    To see you weigh the paws, when tipp’d with gold,
    And throw the shaggy spoils about your shoulders. Addison.

    Quarto’s, octavo’s shape the less’ning pyre,
    And last a little Ajax tips the spire. Alexander Pope, Dunciad.

    Behold the place, where if a poet
    Shin’d in description, he might show it;
    Tell how the moon-beam trembling falls,
    And tips with silver all the walls. Alexander Pope, Horace.

    Tipt with jet,
    Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press. James Thomson.

    She writes love letters to the youth in grace,
    Nay, tips the wink before the cuckold’s face. Dryden.

    The pert jackanapes tipped me the wink, and put out his tongue at his grandfather. Tatler, №. 86.

    A third rogue tips me by the elbow. Jonathan Swift.

    Their judgment was, upon the whole,
    That lady is the dullest soul;
    Then tipt their forehead in a jeer,
    As who should say, she wants it here. Jonathan Swift.

    When I saw the keeper frown,
    Tipping him with half a crown,
    Now, said I, we are alone,
    Name your heroes one by one. Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPT

  1. tip

    A tip is a small amount of money given to someone as a gratitude for their service, often on top of the original cost of the service. It can also refer to a piece of advice, or the pointed or rounded end or edge of an object.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tipnoun

    the point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear

  2. Tipnoun

    an end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc

  3. Tipnoun

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

  4. Tipnoun

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

  5. Tipnoun

    rubbish thrown from a quarry

  6. Tipverb

    to form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver

  7. Tipverb

    to strike slightly; to tap

  8. Tipverb

    to bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant

  9. Tipverb

    to lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart

  10. Tipverb

    to fall on, or incline to, one side

  11. Tipnoun

    a light touch or blow; a tap

  12. Tipnoun

    a gift; a douceur; a fee

  13. Tipnoun

    a hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like

Wikidata

  1. Tip

    A tip is a sum of money customarily tendered to certain service sector workers for a service performed or anticipated. Tipping and the amount are a matter of social custom and the practice and social norms vary between countries and settings. In some locations, tipping is discouraged and insulting and in some locations tipping is expected from customers. The customary tip can be a specific range of monetary amounts or a given percentage of the bill. In some circumstances, such as with U.S. government workers, receiving of tips is illegal. A service charge is sometimes added to bills in restaurants and similar establishments. Tipping may not be expected when a fee is explicitly charged for the service. In the US and Canada, tax audits of servers have shown that servers significantly underreport their tip income. In the US, employers may not allocate tips to themselves. Federal law permits employers to include tip wage towards satisfying the difference between employees' hourly wage and minimum wage. A tip pool cannot be allocated to employees who do not customarily and regularly receive tips. These non-eligible employees include dishwashers, cooks, chefs, and janitors.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Tip

    tip, n. the top or point of anything small: the end, as of a billiard-cue, &c.—v.t. to form a point to: to cover the tip or end of:—pr.p. tip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. tipped.—On the tip of the tongue, on the very point of being spoken. [A variant of top; cf. Dut. tip; Ger. zipf-el, point.]

  2. Tip

    tip, v.t. to strike lightly: to cause to slant: (slang) to communicate, give: (slang) to give private information to, about betting, &c.: (coll.) to give a small gift of money to, as a gratuity.—v.i. to slant: to give tips.—n. a tap or light stroke: a place for tipping any refuse into, a dump: a tram for expeditiously transferring coal: private information about horse-racing, stock speculations, &c.: a gratuity.—ns. Tip′-cart, a cart emptied by being canted up; Tip′-cat, a game in which a pointed piece of wood called a cat is made to rebound from the ground by being struck on the tip with a stick; Tip′-cheese, a boys' game in which a small stick is struck forward; Tip′per, a means of tipping, esp. an arrangement for dumping coal: one who tips: one who gives gratuities: one who gives private hints about speculation, racing, &c.; Tip′ping, act of tilting: the habit of giving gratuities to servants; Tip′ster, one whose business is to give private hints about racing, the rise and fall of stocks, &c.—adj. Tip′-tilt′ed, having the tip tilted up.—Tip off liquor, to turn up the vessel till quite empty; Tip one the wink, to wink as a caution, or in mutual understanding; Tip over, to overturn by tipping; Tip the scale, to depress one end of the scales.—Foul tip, a foul hit in baseball; Straight tip, a reliable hint about betting, &c. [Scand., Sw. tippa, to tap; Ger. tupfen.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. tip

    See pitch.

Rap Dictionary

  1. tipnoun

    Penis Get off my tip.

  2. tipnoun

    Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest

  3. tipnoun

    The end, the fullest. To the tip! -- Schoolly D (Mr. Big Dick)

  4. tipnoun

    Style, type. on the Gangstarr tip -- Gang starr (B.Y.S.) Oldschool Tip -- Ice Cube (Check yourself) tip-T.I.P (aka T.I.) T.I.P. Ten.inch.Playa tip- meaning best friend whazzup my tip

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Entomology

  1. Tip

    the extremity; the part furthest removed from the base.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'tip' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4723

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'tip' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3112

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'tip' in Nouns Frequency: #1353

  4. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'tip' in Verbs Frequency: #799

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  1. pit

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tip in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tip in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of tip in a Sentence

  1. Michael Lynn:

    This is a defrauding of the consumer, it's a voluntary payment from the consumer. So it's important that they not be cheated or duped into giving money to a company they wouldn't otherwise do it. I would be willing to tip the delivery person, I'm not willing to tip DoorDash.

  2. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann:

    The Federal Criminal Police Office informed the Bavarian police on New Year’s Eve of the existence of a tip-off from a friendly intelligence agency that Islamic State plans a concrete attack, attacks tonight, at midnight at the Munich central station or/and Pasing (station), i believe this decision was right because I think we cannot take unnecessary risks when we are dealing with such concrete threats, concrete locations, and a concrete time.

  3. John Hannah:

    The longer you allow Raqqa to exist as the operational heart of the Caliphate, the more likely they're going to be able to launch the kinds of attacks we saw last year, it's a genuine and very serious, political, military and diplomatic dilemma that the US is going to have to manage, assuming that the YPG is going to be the tip of the spear in Raqqa.

  4. The Post:

    All 133 Virginia public school division superintendents have urged Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to scrap the ‘tip line’ set up to let parents complain about teachers and principals and have asked him to stop his campaign against the teaching of 'divisive' content in schools.

  5. Anas Aremeyaw Anas:

    What you have seen in Ghana is a tip of the iceberg. The story is now beginning to unfold and within the next two-three weeks I am sure you're going to start reading the impact.

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