tip
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English tip, typ, tippe (“tip”), from Proto-Germanic *tuppijô, *tuppijǭ (“tip”), a diminutive of *tuppaz. 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”), Middle High German züpfel (“pointed end, tip”).
Inflected forms:
form: tips
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tipped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
pos: noun
examples: the tip of one's nose
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.
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.
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.
gloss: A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
pos: noun
examples: a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.
gloss: The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
pos: noun
gloss: A small piece of meat.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: chicken tips over rice, pork tips, marinated alligator tips
He dutifully speared a beef tip and chewed it with false gusto.
gloss: A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”).
pos: noun
gloss: the glans penis
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: my tip sticky rn
What's your tip color?
gloss: To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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 [...].
truncheon tipped with iron head
The furry nations harbour-tipt with jet, / Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.
It was on the break - the moon shone on its crest and tipped its foam with light.
Derived words: arse over tip
blacktip
cocktip
cork tip
cryotip
drip tip
felt-tip
filter tip
fingertip
foul tip
French tip
gum-tip
hat tip
hooktip
look beyond the tip of one's nose
look past the tip of one's nose
microtip
miss one's tip
mushroom tip
nanotip
on the tip of one's tongue
orange tip
precursor tip
Q-tip
quivertip
beyond the tip of one's nose
past the tip of one's nose
silvertip
sooty orange tip
speartip
spruce tip
straight tip
suction tip
supratip
that's the tip
thumb tip
tidytips
tip bait
tip baiting
tipburn
tipcat
tip drill
tipful
tip-off
tip of the hat
tip of the iceberg
tip of the ice cube
tip of the spear
tip of the Stetson
tipstaff
tipstock
tiptoe
tip tool
tip-top
tiptop
tip-topper
tip truck
tipward
tip wilter
toetip
tonguetip
tri-tip
twin tip
violet-tip
whitetip
wing tip
wingtip
tipless
tip one's hand
tip one's hat
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: طَرَف
roman: ṭaraf
lang: Armenian
word: ծայր
roman: cayr
lang: Bhojpuri
word: नोक
roman: nōk
lang: Bulgarian
word: връх
roman: vrǎh
lang: Bulgarian
word: заострен край
roman: zaostren kraj
lang: Catalan
word: punta
lang: Catalan
word: punxa
lang: Chamicuro
word: yawa
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 尖頂 /尖顶
roman: jiāndǐng
lang: Czech
word: hrot
lang: Czech
word: špička
lang: Dutch
word: punt
lang: Esperanto
word: pinto
lang: Estonian
word: ots
lang: Evenki
word: дугэ
roman: dugə
lang: Finnish
word: kärki
lang: French
word: bout
lang: French
word: pointe
lang: French
word: extrémité
lang: Galician
word: cabo
lang: Galician
word: punta
lang: Galician
word: extremo
lang: Georgian
word: წვერი
roman: c̣veri
lang: German
word: Spitze
lang: Greek
word: αιχμή
roman: aichmí
lang: Greek
word: κορυφή
roman: koryfí
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἄκρον
roman: ákron
lang: Ancient Greek
word: τελευτή
roman: teleutḗ
lang: Hebrew
word: קצה
roman: katzé
lang: Hebrew
word: שפיץ
roman: shpítz
lang: Hindi
word: नोक
roman: nok
lang: Hungarian
word: hegy
lang: Hungarian
word: csúcs
lang: Icelandic
word: broddur
lang: Icelandic
word: toppur
lang: Icelandic
word: endi
lang: Icelandic
word: oddur
lang: Indonesian
word: ujung
lang: Ingrian
word: nenä
lang: Italian
word: punta
lang: Italian
word: estremità
lang: Japanese
word: 先
roman: saki
lang: Japanese
word: 先端
roman: sentan
lang: Javanese
word: pucuk
lang: Old Javanese
word: pucuk
lang: Khmer
word: ចុង
roman: coŋ
lang: Central Kurdish
word: نووک
roman: nûk
lang: Ladin
word: piza
lang: Latin
word: cuspis
lang: Malay
word: hujung
lang: Māori
word: hiku
lang: Māori
word: kāmata
lang: Māori
word: kūreitanga
lang: Māori
word: pōkanekane
lang: Māori
word: kōmore
lang: Mongolian
word: үзүүр
roman: üzüür
lang: Persian
word: نوک
roman: nok
lang: Persian
word: توک
roman: tok
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Spetz
lang: Polish
word: czubek
lang: Portuguese
word: ponta
lang: Portuguese
word: pico
lang: Russian
word: ко́нчик
roman: kónčik
lang: Russian
word: остриё
roman: ostrijó
lang: Russian
word: наконе́чник
roman: nakonéčnik
lang: Slovak
word: špica
lang: Slovak
word: hrot
lang: Spanish
word: punta
lang: Spanish
word: ápice
lang: Spanish
word: ápex
lang: Swedish
word: spets
lang: Telugu
word: మొన
roman: mona
lang: Turkish
word: uç
lang: Ukrainian
word: кі́нчик
roman: kínčyk
lang: Ukrainian
word: наконе́чник
roman: nakonéčnyk
lang: Vietnamese
word: chóp
lang: Vietnamese
word: chỏm
lang: Walloon
word: copete
lang: Walloon
word: ponte
lang: Yiddish
word: שפּיץ
roman: shpits
lang: Zulu
word: isihloko
lang: ǃXóõ
word: ǀʻám