English Explanatory Dictionary

tip

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
  2. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
  3. The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
  4. A small piece of meat.
  5. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
  6. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
  7. Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”).
  8. the glans penis
verb
  1. To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
verb
  1. (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
  2. (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
  3. To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.
  4. To drink.
  5. To dump (refuse).
  6. To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
  7. To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
noun
  1. The knocking over of a skittle.
  2. An act of tipping up or tilting.
  3. An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.
  4. Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
  5. A recycling centre.
  6. A very untidy place.
  7. The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
  8. A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
verb
  1. To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
noun
  1. A light blow or tap.
verb
  1. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
  2. To give, pass.
noun
  1. A small monetary gift.
  2. A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other service worker as a token of appreciation, often calculated as a percentage of the bill.
  3. A gratuity given to someone who voluntarily provides assistance.
  4. A small monetary gift given to a child from an older relative or family friend.
noun
  1. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
  2. A piece of advice.
  3. A prediction of the winning team in a football game by a participant in a footy tipping competition.
  4. A prediction about the outcome of something.
verb
  1. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
  2. To enter a prediction of the winning team of a football game, as part of a footy tipping competition.
  3. To predict something having a particular outcome.
noun
  1. A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
  2. A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
name
  1. A male nickname.
name
  1. Initialism of Tertiary Ideographic Plane, the fourth 65,536-codepoint plane in Unicode (from U+30000 through U+3FFFF).
  2. Abbreviation of Tipperary.
  3. Initialism of Third Intermediate Period.
  4. Initialism of Technological Institute of the Philippines.
noun
  1. Initialism of trans-identified person.

Pronunciation

/tɪp/ en-us-tip.ogg

Word forms

tip tips tipping tipped

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”), Albanian thep (“tip, point”), Middle High German züpfel (“pointed end, tip”).

Synonyms

extremity eartip gratuity hint

Derived words

arse over tip cocktip cork tip drip tip felt-tip filter tip fingertip foul tip French tip gum-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 toetip tri-tip twin tip violet-tip whitetip wing tip tip one's hand tip one's hat retip tip over tip the balance tip the scales fly-tip tip back tip down tip it down tip out

Translations

Arabic: طَرَف Armenian: ծայր Bhojpuri: नोक Bulgarian: връх Bulgarian: заострен край Catalan: punta Catalan: punxa Chamicuro: yawa Chinese Mandarin: 尖頂 /尖顶 Czech: hrot Czech: špička Dutch: punt Esperanto: pinto Estonian: ots Evenki: дугэ Finnish: kärki French: bout French: pointe French: extrémité Galician: cabo Galician: punta Galician: extremo Georgian: წვერი German: Spitze Greek: αιχμή Greek: κορυφή Ancient Greek: ἄκρον Ancient Greek: τελευτή Hebrew: קצה Hebrew: שפיץ Hindi: नोक Hungarian: hegy Hungarian: csúcs Icelandic: broddur Icelandic: toppur Icelandic: endi Icelandic: oddur Indonesian: ujung Ingrian: nenä Italian: punta Italian: estremità Japanese: 先 Japanese: 先端 Javanese: pucuk Old Javanese: pucuk Khmer: ចុង Central Kurdish: نووک Ladin: piza Latin: cuspis Malay: hujung Māori: hiku Māori: kāmata Māori: kūreitanga Māori: pōkanekane Māori: kōmore Mongolian: үзүүр Persian: نوک Persian: توک Plautdietsch: Spetz Polish: czubek Portuguese: ponta Portuguese: pico Bulgarian: накланям Bulgarian: килвам Esperanto: renversi Finnish: kallistaa Hungarian: megdönt Italian: inclinare Russian: опроки́нуть Russian: опроки́нуться Spanish: inclinar Swedish: tippa Ottoman Turkish: اكمك
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