English Explanatory Dictionary

pip

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
  2. A disease, malaise or depression in humans.
noun
  1. A pippin, seed of any kind.
  2. A seed inside certain fleshy fruits, such as the stone (pit) of a stonefruit or the smaller seeds of an orange or apple.
  3. Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
  4. P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
verb
  1. To remove the pips from.
noun
  1. One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
  2. One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
  3. A spot; a speck.
  4. A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
  5. A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
verb
  1. To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.
  2. To hit with a gunshot.
verb
  1. To peep, to chirp.
  2. To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.
noun
  1. One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
noun
  1. The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
name
  1. A diminutive form of the given names Philip, Phillip, Pippi and Philippa.
name
  1. The 1914 Star or 1914–15 Star medal.
name
  1. Acronym of Peripheral Interchange Program.
noun
  1. Acronym of picture-in-picture.
  2. Acronym of predicted impact point.
  3. Acronym of performance improvement plan.
  4. Acronym of product improvement program.
  5. Acronym of peak inspiratory pressure.
  6. Acronym of personal independence payment.
noun
  1. Initialism of picture-in-picture.

Pronunciation

pĭp /pɪp/ en-us-pip.ogg

Word forms

pip the pip pips pipping pipped

Etymology

From Middle English pippe, from Middle Dutch pip, from post-classical Latin pipita, from Latin pītuīta (“mucus, phlegm, head cold”). Doublet of pituita.

Synonyms

spot pip to the post stroke

Related words

pip to the post pip at the post pip pip pip-pip pip-squeak toodle pip POP PEEP

Derived words

like a chicken with the pip pippy apple pip pip emma pipfruit pipless squeeze the pips until the pips squeak pipper pipsqueak pip pip pip Guy and Pip

Translations

Albanian: bërthamë Arabic: عَجَمَة Arabic: عَجَم Armenian: կորիզ Azerbaijani: çəyirdək Belarusian: ко́стачка Belarusian: зярня́тка Belarusian: се́мечка Belarusian: се́мачка Bengali: বীজ Bulgarian: се́мка Bulgarian: зръ́нце Chinese Mandarin: 果仁 Chinese Mandarin: 仁 Czech: jadérko Czech: pecka Danish: kerne Danish: sten Dutch: pit Estonian: tuum Estonian: seeme Finnish: siemen Finnish: kivi French: pépin Galician: pebida Georgian: კურკა German: Kern Greek: κουκούτσι Hebrew: חַרצָן Hindi: बीज Hungarian: mag Icelandic: kjarni Icelandic: steinn Indonesian: biji Italian: seme Japanese: 種 Kazakh: дәнек Korean: 씨 Kyrgyz: данек Latvian: sēkla Latvian: kauliņš Lithuanian: branduolys Macedonian: се́ме Macedonian: го́лушка Malay: biji Manx: sheel Māori: kākano Norwegian Bokmål: kjerne Persian: دانه Polish: pestka Portuguese: caroço Portuguese: semente Romanian: sâmbure Romanian: sămânță Russian: ко́сточка Russian: зёрнышко Russian: се́мечко
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