tip
tip is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 12 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.(Hat Manuf.) A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
- 3.A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
- 4.Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
- 5.To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver. With truncheon tipped with iron head. Hudibras. Tipped with jet, Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press. Thomson.
- 6.To strike slightly; to tap. A third rogue tips me by the elbow. Swift.
- 7.To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
- 8.To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart. To tip off, to pour out, as liquor. -- To tip over, to overturn. -- To tip the wink, to direct a wink; to give a hint or suggestion by, or as by, a wink. [Slang] Pope. -- To tip up, to turn partly over by raising one end.
- 9.To fall on, or incline to, one side. Bunyan. To tip off, to fall off by tipping.
- 10.A light touch or blow; a tap.
- 11.A gift; a douceur; a fee. [Colloq.]
- 12.A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like. [Sporting Cant]
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- able
- amnesia
- amnesty
- and
- attention
- away
- back
- behind
- cast
- cause
- come
- consign
- decay
- deliberate
- die
- discharge
- ear
- efface
- escape
- fade
- fail
- failing
- failure
- fall
- forget
- forgetful
- forgetfulness
- forgive
- from
- general
- have
- head
- insensibility
- into
- lapse
- let
- lethe
- loose
- lose
- memory
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is tip.
- What is 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 called?
- What is a piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown called?
- What is a thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf called?
- What is to strike slightly; to tap. A third rogue tips me by the elbow. Swift called?
- What is to bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant. [Colloq.] Thackeray called?
- What is to fall on, or incline to, one side. Bunyan. To tip off, to fall off by tipping called?
- What is a hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like. [Sporting Cant] called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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