tip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: tips
Etymology: From Middle English tip, typ, tippe (“tip”), related to Saterland Frisian Tip (“tip”), West Frisian tippe, tip (“tip”), Dutch tip (“tip”), German Low German Tip, Tippel (“tip”), dialectal German Zipf (“tip”) (diminutive Zipfel used in Standard German), Danish tip (“tip”), Swedish tipp (“tip”), Icelandic typpi (“knob, pin, penis”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Timpe (“tip”), West Frisian timpe (“tip”), Old English tæppa (“tap, spigot”), Albanian thep (“tip, point”), Middle High German züpfel (“pointed end, tip”).
Senses: examples: text: the tip of one's nose
text: 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.
ref: 1848, Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:
text: The present-day city of Ji’an at the southern tip of Jilin province was the second capital (3-427 CE) of the Gaogouli kingdom during its middle period.
ref: 2004, Xiaoneng Yang, “Early Imperial China (Qin Dynasty through Southern and Northern Dynasties Period)”, in Xiaoneng Yang, editor, New Perspectives on China's Past: Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth Century, volume 2, Yale University Press; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 324:
text: From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
ref: 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
synonyms: extremity
glosses: The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
examples: text: a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.
glosses: A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
examples: text: chicken tips over rice, pork tips, marinated alligator tips
text: He dutifully speared a beef tip and chewed it with false gusto.
ref: 1998, Alan Morris, “Between Earth and Sky”, in Guardians of the North, book 4; →ISBN:
glosses: A small piece of meat.
glosses: A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
glosses: A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
glosses: Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”).
synonyms: word: eartip
extra: part of earbuds
Derived terms: arse over tip
cocktip
cork tip
drip tip
felt-tip
filter tip
foul tip
French tip
hat tip
look beyond the tip of one's nose
look past the tip of one's nose
miss one's tip
mushroom tip
on the tip of one's tongue
orange tip
precursor tip
Q-tip
beyond the tip of one's nose
past the tip of one's nose
sooty orange tip
spruce tip
straight tip
suction tip
that's the tip
thumb tip
tip bait
tip baiting
tipcat
tip drill
tip-off
tip of the hat
tip of the iceberg
tip of the ice cube
tip of the spear
tip of the Stetson
tiptoe
tip tool
tip-top
tip-topper
tip truck
tip wilter
tri-tip
twin tip
violet-tip
whitetip
wing tip