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What does TIP mean?

Definitions for TIPtɪptip

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word TIP.

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tipnoun

   the extreme end of something; especially something pointed

2. gratuity, tip, pourboire, baksheesh, bakshish, bakshis, backsheeshnoun

   a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)

3. tip, lead, steer, confidential information, wind, hintnoun

   an indication of potential opportunity

   "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job"

4. point, tip, peaknoun

   a V shape

   "the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points"

5. peak, crown, crest, top, tip, summitverb

   the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)

   "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered to the tip of Monadnock"; "the region is a few molecules wide at the summit"

6. tipverb

   cause to tilt

   "tip the screen upward"

7. tipverb

   mark with a tip

   "tip the arrow with the small stone"

8. tip, fee, bungverb

   give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on

   "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward"

9. topple, tumble, tipverb

   cause to topple or tumble by pushing

10. lean, tilt, tip, slant, angleverb

    to incline or bend from a vertical position

    "She leaned over the banister"

11. tiptoe, tip, tippytoeverb

    walk on one's toes

12. tap, tipverb

    strike lightly

    "He tapped me on the shoulder"

13. tip off, tipverb

    give insider information or advise to

    "He tipped off the police about the terrorist plot"

14. tipverb

    remove the tip from

    "tip artichokes"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tipnoun

   A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.

2. tipnoun

   A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.

3. Etymology: Probably from tip or tip, or a combination of the two.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tipnoun

   Top; end; point; extremity.

   Etymology: tip, tipken, Dutch.

   The tip no jewel needs to wear,The tip is jewel of the ear. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

   They touch the beard with the tip of their tongue, and wet it. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 494.

   Thrice upon thy fingers tip,Thrice upon thy rubied lip. John Milton.

   All the pleasure dwells upon the tip of his tongue. South.

   She has fifty private amours, which nobody yet knows any thing of but herself, and thirty clandestine marriages that have not been touched by the tip of the tongue. Addison.

   I no longer look upon lord Plausible as ridiculous, for admiring a lady’s fine tip of an ear and pretty elbow. Alexander Pope.

2. To Tipverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To top; to end; to cover on the end.

   In his hand a reedStood waving, tipp’d with fire. John Milton, Par. Lost.

   With truncheon tipp’d with iron head,The warriour to the lists he led. Hudibras, p. i.

   How would the old king smileTo see you weigh the paws, when tipp’d with gold,And throw the shaggy spoils about your shoulders. Addison.

   Quarto’s, octavo’s shape the less’ning pyre,And last a little Ajax tips the spire. Alexander Pope, Dunciad.

   Behold the place, where if a poetShin’d in description, he might show it;Tell how the moon-beam trembling falls,And tips with silver all the walls. Alexander Pope, Horace.

   Tipt with jet,Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press. James Thomson.

   2. To strike slightly; to tap.

   She writes love letters to the youth in grace,Nay, tips the wink before the cuckold’s face. Dryden.

   The pert jackanapes tipped me the wink, and put out his tongue at his grandfather. Tatler, №. 86.

   A third rogue tips me by the elbow. Jonathan Swift.

   Their judgment was, upon the whole,That lady is the dullest soul;Then tipt their forehead in a jeer,As who should say, she wants it here. Jonathan Swift.

   When I saw the keeper frown,Tipping him with half a crown,Now, said I, we are alone,Name your heroes one by one. Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tip

   A tip is a small amount of money given to someone as a gratitude for their service, often on top of the original cost of the service. It can also refer to a piece of advice, or the pointed or rounded end or edge of an object.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tipnoun

   the point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear

2. Tipnoun

   an end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc

3. Tipnoun

   a piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown

4. Tipnoun

   a thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf

5. Tipnoun

   rubbish thrown from a quarry

6. Tipverb

   to form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver

7. Tipverb

   to strike slightly; to tap

8. Tipverb

   to bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant

9. Tipverb

   to lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart

10. Tipverb

    to fall on, or incline to, one side

11. Tipnoun

    a light touch or blow; a tap

12. Tipnoun

    a gift; a douceur; a fee

13. Tipnoun

    a hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Tip

   A tip is a sum of money customarily tendered to certain service sector workers for a service performed or anticipated. Tipping and the amount are a matter of social custom and the practice and social norms vary between countries and settings. In some locations, tipping is discouraged and insulting and in some locations tipping is expected from customers. The customary tip can be a specific range of monetary amounts or a given percentage of the bill. In some circumstances, such as with U.S. government workers, receiving of tips is illegal. A service charge is sometimes added to bills in restaurants and similar establishments. Tipping may not be expected when a fee is explicitly charged for the service. In the US and Canada, tax audits of servers have shown that servers significantly underreport their tip income. In the US, employers may not allocate tips to themselves. Federal law permits employers to include tip wage towards satisfying the difference between employees' hourly wage and minimum wage. A tip pool cannot be allocated to employees who do not customarily and regularly receive tips. These non-eligible employees include dishwashers, cooks, chefs, and janitors.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tip

   tip, n. the top or point of anything small: the end, as of a billiard-cue, &c.—v.t. to form a point to: to cover the tip or end of:—pr.p. tip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. tipped.—On the tip of the tongue, on the very point of being spoken. [A variant of top; cf. Dut. tip; Ger. zipf-el, point.]

2. Tip

   tip, v.t. to strike lightly: to cause to slant: (slang) to communicate, give: (slang) to give private information to, about betting, &c.: (coll.) to give a small gift of money to, as a gratuity.—v.i. to slant: to give tips.—n. a tap or light stroke: a place for tipping any refuse into, a dump: a tram for expeditiously transferring coal: private information about horse-racing, stock speculations, &c.: a gratuity.—ns. Tip′-cart, a cart emptied by being canted up; Tip′-cat, a game in which a pointed piece of wood called a cat is made to rebound from the ground by being struck on the tip with a stick; Tip′-cheese, a boys' game in which a small stick is struck forward; Tip′per, a means of tipping, esp. an arrangement for dumping coal: one who tips: one who gives gratuities: one who gives private hints about speculation, racing, &c.; Tip′ping, act of tilting: the habit of giving gratuities to servants; Tip′ster, one whose business is to give private hints about racing, the rise and fall of stocks, &c.—adj. Tip′-tilt′ed, having the tip tilted up.—Tip off liquor, to turn up the vessel till quite empty; Tip one the wink, to wink as a caution, or in mutual understanding; Tip over, to overturn by tipping; Tip the scale, to depress one end of the scales.—Foul tip, a foul hit in baseball; Straight tip, a reliable hint about betting, &c. [Scand., Sw. tippa, to tap; Ger. tupfen.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tip

   See pitch.

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tipnoun

   Penis Get off my tip.

2. tipnoun

   Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest

3. tipnoun

   The end, the fullest. To the tip! -- Schoolly D (Mr. Big Dick)

4. tipnoun

   Style, type. on the Gangstarr tip -- Gang starr (B.Y.S.) Oldschool Tip -- Ice Cube (Check yourself) tip-T.I.P (aka T.I.) T.I.P. Ten.inch.Playa tip- meaning best friend whazzup my tip

Suggested ResourcesRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TIP

   What does TIP stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the TIP acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tip

   the extremity; the part furthest removed from the base.

Matched Categories

1. • Advise
   • Bend
   • Convex Shape
   • End
   • Mark
   • Push
   • Remove
   • Reorient
   • Strike
   • Walk

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'TIP' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4723

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'TIP' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3112

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'TIP' in Nouns Frequency: #1353

4. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'TIP' in Verbs Frequency: #799

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1. pit

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of TIP in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of TIP in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of TIP in a Sentence

1. Todd Maiden:

   It has given people in the market some pause, if the court was to suddenly invalidate the auctions, where do you go from there? Does that mean we go back in time and refund the money? And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

2. Tony Soutter:

   Unfortunately it all came about from missing a flight which then meant she didn't go training with the [Great Britain] squad, she felt she'd let them down, felt she'd let me down, and just tragically it just takes one silly little thing like that to tip someone over the edge, because there's a lot of pressure on children.

3. Mark McCloskeysaid:

   We got a tip that the peoplewere coming back and they werecoming back specifically for usand to get us and to burn thehouse, we started trying to getprivate security.We had been told that the citypolice have been ordered tostand down.

4. Donald Trump:

   Together you are the tip of the spear, the edge of the blade and the front of the shield defending and protecting our great country, you know there is no mission our pilots can't handle. There is no hill our marines can't take and there is no stronghold the SEALs can't breach. There is no sea the Navy can't brave and there is no storm the American sailor can't conquer. You know that together there is nothing Americans can't do. Absolutely nothing.

5. Alex Au:

   This is the tip of the iceberg, when you pack people in such density...all this mantra about isolation and social distancing is useless.

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Popularity rank by frequency of use

TIP#1#2765#10000

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNethttp://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=TIP
2. ^ Wiktionaryhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tip
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionaryhttps://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=TIP
4. ^ ChatGPThttps://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionaryhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/TIP
6. ^ Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=TIP
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionaryhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=TIP
8. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Termshttps://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf
9. ^ Entomologyhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=TIP
10. ^ Usage in printed sourceshttps://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=TIP

Translations for TIP

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• أسلة, بقشيش, إخبارية, إكرامية, بخشيش, تلميحArabic
• бакшишBulgarian
• punxa, punta, propina, indiciCatalan, Valencian
• spropitnéCzech
• ein Trinkgeld geben, Spitze, Trinkgeld, TippGerman
• κορυφή, αιχμή, φιλοδώρημα, [[δίνω]] [[φιλοδώρημα]]Greek
• pintoEsperanto
• propina, dar propinaSpanish
• نوک, توکPersian
• tippi, kärki, juomaraha, neuvoFinnish
• bonne-main, conseil, pointe, pourliche, astuce, extrémité, bout, décharge, pourboire, tuyauFrench
• síneadh láimheIrish
• gliocasScottish Gaelic
• שפיץ, קצה, תשר, רמזHebrew
• borravaló, tippHungarian
• ծայրArmenian
• drinkopekunio, gratifiketoIdo
• punta, discarica, mancia, estremità, lasciare manciaItalian
• タバコ銭, 心づけ, 先, チップ, 助言, 先端, 祝儀, 内報Japanese
• წვერიGeorgian
• ತುದಿKannada
• نووکKurdish
• DrénkgeldLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
• arbat pinigusLithuanian
• kūreitanga, pōkanekane, tīwhiri, kāmata, hiku, takohaMāori
• бакшишMacedonian
• vuilnisbelt, stortplaats, drinkgeld, hint, punt, stort, fooi, tip, tippenDutch
• czubek, napiwek, wskazówkaPolish
• gorjeta, dica, pico, ponta, [[dar]] [[gorjeta]]Portuguese
• bacșișRomanian
• наконечник, чаевые, наводка, намёк, совет, остриё, свалка, подсказка, кончик, отвалRussian
• bakšiš, бакшишSerbo-Croatian
• nechať sprepitné, hrot, tringelt, rada, špica, sprepitné, tipSlovak
• tips, spets, tipp, dricks, tippa, soptippSwedish
• kiinua mgongoSwahili
• మొనTelugu
• püf noktaTurkish
• bo, tiền bo, tiền thưởngVietnamese
• givön drinamoni, drinamonVolapük
• copete, ponteWalloon
• 小費Chinese
• umbhanselo, isihloko, umbhanso, ithiphuZulu

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