Pronunciations
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/tɪp/
Pronunciation notes
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Noun
The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
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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.
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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.
A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
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a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.
The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
A small piece of meat.
Usage- in-plural
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chicken tips over rice, pork tips, marinated alligator tips
He dutifully speared a beef tip and chewed it with false gusto.
A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”).
The glans penis.
Usage- Slang
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my tip sticky rn
What's your tip color?
Verb
To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
Usage- Transitive
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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
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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.
Verb
(To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
Usage- ergative
(To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
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the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two […]
There is little chance that the EU’s watchdogs have, until now, simply missed the evidence of a deeper malaise. The red flags signalling a democratic deficit have always been prominent: from the long-standing harassment, detention, and assassination of peaceful human rights defenders like Chea Vichea, Chut Wutty, and Tep Vanny, to ratcheting up efforts to deter civil society organisation through dubious, hostile legislation. More likely, the trade-offs between popular power and stability have been weighed by the EU and accepted, where these have tipped in its favour—in this case, shoring up a regional ally and trading partner, as well as delivering rapid rates of economic growth that have won Cambodia middle-income status, thus serving up a ready exemplar of neoliberal development logic.
To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.
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The workshop with its smithy is still intact, also the loading stage where the narrow-gauge wagons tipped their contents into those of the G.W.R.
To drink.
Usage- Dated
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To dump (refuse).
Usage- Transitive
To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
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I tip my 40 to your memory.
To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
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Lampard was replaced by Kalou but the substitute immediately gave the ball to Jonas, whose 25-yard curler was tipped wide by Cech.
Noun
The knocking over of a skittle.
Usage- Obsolete
An act of tipping up or tilting.
An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
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There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.
1972 May 18, Jon Tinker, Must we waste rubbish?, New Scientist, page 389, As the tip slowly squashes under its own weight, bacteria rot away the organic matter, mainly anaerobically with the generation of methane.
2009, Donna Kelly, 'Don't dump on Hepburn's top tip', The Hepburn Advocate, Fairfax Digital When I was a kid I used to love going to the tip.
There are two rubbish tips in Rother.
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2009, Beck Vass, 'Computer collectibles saved from the tip' The New Zealand Herald, Technology section, APN Holdings NZ Ltd Computer collectibles saved from the tip
Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
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A recycling centre.
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A very untidy place.
Usage- Colloquial
The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
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As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.
A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
Verb
To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
Usage- Archaic
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A third rogue tips me by the elbow.
Noun
A light blow or tap.
Usage- Archaic
Verb
To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
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You should always tip your waiter in the United States and most third world countries.
Hire of bedding, and food in the restaurant cars is cheap, and passengers are officially encouraged not to tip company's servants—but they do.
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“Did you tip him enough to do any good? They only work for tips.” “I didn’t know that,” I said. “I thought the hotel paid them something on the side.” “I mean they will only do something for you for a substantial tip. Most of them are rotten clean through.”
To give, pass.
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"Done say I to that, Reuben, tip me your fin, my spark, and it shall be a bet."
Noun
A small monetary gift. 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.
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Workers in the American service industry usually depend on tips to even make minimum wage.
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“Did you tip him enough to do any good? They only work for tips.” “I didn’t know that,” I said. “I thought the hotel paid them something on the side.” “I mean they will only do something for you for a substantial tip. Most of them are rotten clean through.”
Tips were an important part of porters' income, and at Christmas passengers felt there was extra pressure to give them - despite some perceiving the level of service to be poor.
A small monetary gift. A gratuity given to someone who voluntarily provides assistance.
Usage- Dated
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A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam [...] had left for his work at five o'clock that morning.
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So Lord Tottenham said, "Well, I'm much obliged any way. And now I come to look at you—of course, you're not young ruffians, but gentlemen's sons, eh? Still, you won't be above taking a tip from an old boy—I wasn't when I was your age," and he pulled out half a sovereign.
A small monetary gift. A small monetary gift given to a child from an older relative or family friend.
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“I hope,” said Uncle Andrew presently in a very high and mighty voice, just as if he were a perfect Uncle who had just given one a handsome tip and some good advice
Noun
A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
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hot stock tips
A piece of advice.
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tips and tricks
A prediction of the winning team in a football game by a participant in a footy tipping competition.
Usage- Australia
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Thus, this is a tricky tip; Port’s inconsistency combined with the higher ladder placing of Adelaide have me leaning the latter’s way.
Another bye round, another dose of Thursday night footy and that means you have to get your tips in early.
A prediction about the outcome of something.
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My guess, Senator Bernardi, is that Mr Rudd will take over. He will immediately say: 'I made a mistake on the carbon tax. We're not going to introduce it and we will go to an election.' There is my tip.
My tip is he can be top 50 after the Australian summer of tennis.
A piece of information transmitted to law enforcement about a crime or other activity of interest.
Verb
To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
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Dirks was an investment analyst who learned from a former employee of Equity Funding that the company had been fraudulently manufacturing insurance policies. Dirks tipped several institutions which then liquidated $16 million in Equity Funding stock before the fraud was exposed and the bottom fell out of the market. According to the Court, Dirks was a hero for (eventually) exposing the fraud. The SEC's censure of Dirks for tipping inside information was reversed because, the Supreme Court held, the liability of a tippee derives from that of the tipper. If the tipper is without sin, so is the tippee. Here, the employee's purpose in informing Dirks was to expose the fraud, so the tipper breached no duty. Moreover, according to the Court, for there to be a breach of duty, there must be personal benefit (in the form of pecuniary gain or reputational benefit that will translate into future earnings) arising to the tipper from the disclosure.
In rare instances, the provision logically could apply to the private right of action given to contemporaneous traders to recover for insider trading (e.g., a case where an insider tipped an associate about some forthcoming corporate event, and the tippee was found liable based on recklessness).
If the institutional trading patterns we observe are a result of tipping, rather than precipitated by some other event, then we should see only a slight increase in the number of institutions active in the market (tipping would precipitate entry by, at most, the few institutions that were tipped). At the same time, given the nature of the reports, we should see an increase in the average buying activity of institutions (we cannot identify the specific institutions that were tipped, so we can only look at averages) and see little change in selling.
To enter a prediction of the winning team of a football game, as part of a footy tipping competition.
Usage- Australia
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The rest of Saturday’s games have tantalising opportunities for upsets – but I’m going to tip conservatively.
I tipped all the home teams except for the Sharks and Storm.
To predict something having a particular outcome.
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I'm tipping that, although complex accounting treatments tend to separate capital items and recurrent programs and impede overall visibility, there are significant overspends across the infrastructure portfolio.
Liz Truss is widely tipped to defeat rival Rishi Sunak to become the new British prime minister.
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The prime minister was widely tipped to call the election this weekend for 12 April, allowing Labor to avoid a pre-ballot budget that is expected to confirm a return to deficit.
Noun
A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
Noun
the extreme end of something; especially something pointed
a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)
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an indication of potential opportunity
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he got a tip on the stock market
a good lead for a job
a V shape
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the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points
the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
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the view from the peak was magnificent
they clambered to the tip of Monadnock
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the region is a few molecules wide at the summit
Verb
cause to tilt
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tip the screen upward
mark with a tip
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tip the arrow with the small stone
give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
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Remember to tip the waiter
fee the steward
cause to topple or tumble by pushing
to incline or bend from a vertical position
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She leaned over the banister
walk on one's toes
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strike lightly
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He tapped me on the shoulder
give insider information or advise to
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He tipped off the police about the terrorist plot
remove the tip from
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tip artichokes