Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word TIP

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Definitions of TIP

1. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
2. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
3. The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
4. A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
5. A piece of advice.
6. To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.
7. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil. [from 15th c.]
8. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration. [from 15th c.]
9. (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
10. (chiefly, in the plural) A small piece of meat.
11. Synonym of eartip
12. (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of. [from 15th c.]
13. (ergative) (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn. [(transitive) From early 14th c.] [(intransitive) From earlier 16th c.]
14. (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced. [from 17th c.]
15. (transitive, slang, dated) To drink. [from 18th c.]
16. (transitive) To dump (refuse). [from 19th c.]
17. (US, transitive) To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor. [from 20th c.]
18. (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
19. (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle. [from 17th c.]
20. An act of tipping up or tilting. [from 19th c.]
21. (colloquial) A very untidy place. [from 20th c.]
22. (nowrare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap. [from late 15th c.]
23. (nowrare) A light blow or tap. [from late 16th c.]
24. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service. [from early 18th c.]
25. A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation. [from mid-18th c.]
26. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc. [from mid-19th c.]
27. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc. [from late 19th c.]
28. (AAVE) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
29. (AAVE) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
30. (computing) Initialism of Tertiary Ideographic Plane, the fourth 65,536-codepoint plane in Unicode (from U+30000 through U+3FFFF).
31. Abbreviation of Tipperary.
32. (possiblyoffensive) Initialism of trans-identified person.
33. (UK, Irish, Commonwealth) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump. [from 19th c.]
34. (UK, Irish, Commonwealth) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
35. (UK, Irish, Commonwealth, by extension) A recycling centre.
36. (thieves) To give, pass. [from early 17th c.]
37. (AU) A prediction of the winning team in a football game by a participant in a footy tipping competition.
38. (AU) A prediction about the outcome of something.
39. (AU) To enter a prediction of the winning team of a football game, as part of a footy tipping competition.
40. (AU) To predict something having a particular outcome.
41. Initialism of Third Intermediate Period.
42. (Philippines, education) Initialism of w:Technological Institute of the Philippines.

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Examples of Using TIP in a Sentence

• Arapaoa Island (formerly spelled Arapawa Island) is the second-largest island in the Marlborough Sounds, at the north-east tip of the South Island of New Zealand.
• Colours permitted by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI) breed standard are clear sand to dark fawn/brown, red and brindle (with or without a dark mask), with white bib, tail tip, and white on all feet (which can be tips of toes to high stockings).
• Alexandria Troas ("Alexandria of the Troad"; ; , "Old Istanbul") is the site of an ancient Greek city situated on the Aegean Sea near the northern tip of Turkey's western coast, the area known historically as Troad, a little south of Tenedos (modern Bozcaada).
• The ruin of Hammershus, at the northwestern tip of the island, is the largest medieval fortress in northern Europe, testament to the importance of its location.
• It is a type of microscope that can be used to image the arrangement of atoms at the surface of a sharp metal tip.
• city of San Francisco, California—the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula—to Marin County, carrying both U.
• Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east.
• It is located at the south of Guangdong Province, on the tip of the peninsula formed by the Zhujiang (Pearl River) estuary on the east and the Xijiang (West River) on the west.
• The area contains Peninsular Malaysia, Southern Thailand, and the southernmost tip of Myanmar (Kawthaung).
• The fort was situated on the strategic southern tip of the island of Manhattan and was meant to defend the fur trade operations of the Dutch West India Company in the North River (Hudson River).
• It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois.
• The Panama Canal shortcut greatly reduces the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, enabling them to avoid the lengthy, hazardous route around the southernmost tip of South America via the Drake Passage, the Strait of Magellan or the Beagle Channel.
• Stuyvesant's accomplishments as director-general of New Netherland included a great expansion for the settlement of New Amsterdam beyond the southern tip of Manhattan.
• The leaves are strap-shaped, 25–40 mm long on mature trees or up to 100 mm long on young trees, and 6–12 mm broad, with a bluntly pointed tip.
• The presence of man in the Lower Paleolithic is attested by the discovery of stone tools characteristic of Acheulean such as hand axes reported by Théodore Monod at the tip of Fann in the peninsula of Cap-Vert in 1938, or cleavers found in the south-east.
• In monoskiing, the user stands with feet inline with direction of travel (facing tip of monoski/downhill) (parallel to long axis of board), whereas in snowboarding, users stand with feet transverse (more or less) to the longitude of the board.
• In 1956, regional tensions over the Straits of Tiran (giving access to Eilat, a port on the southeast tip of Israel) escalated in what became known as the Suez Crisis, when Israel invaded Egypt over the Egyptian closure of maritime passageways to Israeli shipping, ultimately resulting in the re-opening of the Straits of Tiran to Israel as well as the deployment of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) along the Egypt–Israel border.
• Portuguese chronicles noted that Borommatrailokkanat, king of Ayutthaya, sent an expedition to the Malacca Sultanate, at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, in 1455.
• Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast.
• It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range.

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