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tip English

Meaning tip meaning

What does tip mean?
Definitions in simple English

tip Noun

— The tip of something is the farthest point of it. She runs her finger down the bird's back and to the tip of its tail. He followed the line on the map with his finger tip. She cut herself by accident with the tip of the knife. A common fishing accident is to get a rod tip in the eye. He grew up not far from the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of South Africa. — A tip is words or ideas that help you solve a problem. Police say anonymous tips have led them to more than 20 of the stolen items. Here's a quick tip. The skis should come up to your chin. — A tip is a small amount of money that you give to somebody to thank them for good service. — If something is the tip of the iceberg, it is just a small part of something much bigger. The problems we've seen today are just the tip of the iceberg. — If something is on the tip of your tongue, you feel that you know it, but you can't say it. I wanted the words to come out; They were on the tip of my tongue, but my mind still wasn't clear.

tip Verb

— If something tips, the top of it moves to one side more than the bottom. The piano tipped over as we were putting it on the truck. He tipped his head one way, then the other, looking at it carefully. — If you tip something into something else, you pour it. He tipped the water out of the glass by accident. — If you tip somebody, you give them money to thank them for good service. — If you tip somebody off, you tell them about something that's going to happen. The police were tipped off by a phone call. — If you tip your hat, you touch it or pick it up when you meet or leave somebody. — If you tip your hat to somebody, you thank or congratulate them.

tip

— noun the extreme end of something; especially something pointed — verb cause to tilt tip the screen upward — noun (= lead) an indication of potential opportunity he got a tip on the stock market a good lead for a job — noun (= gratuity) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) — verb mark with a tip tip the arrow with the small stone — verb remove the tip from tip artichokes — verb (= fee) give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on Remember to tip the waiter fee the steward — verb (= tiptoe) walk on one's toes — verb (= tap) strike lightly He tapped me on the shoulder — verb (= tip off) give insider information or advise to He tipped off the police about the terrorist plot — noun (= point) a V shape the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points — verb (= lean) to incline or bend from a vertical position She leaned over the banister — verb (= topple, tumble) cause to topple or tumble by pushing — noun (= peak, top, summit) 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

Synonyms tip synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as tip?

tip English » English

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TIP English » English

tax-based incomes policy Terminal Interface Processors

Topics tip topics

What do people use tip to talk about?
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Pour
Language and thought Want Influence

Advise
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot

  • What are the parts of a spear?
    shaft tip
Work and occupation Agriculture

Agricultural tool
Work and occupation Tool

Parts of tools
States Parts of things

End, point
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Sports

Basketball
Physical actions Move Move in a direction Move down

Fall
Universe, creation Animal Parts of an animal

Parts of a bird
Person Body Head

Ear

  • What do people use to clean their ears?
    Q-tip
Physical actions Move something Carry

Knock over
States Quality Good Decay

Garbage

Conjugation tip conjugation

How do you conjugate tip?

tip · verb

Examples tip examples

How do I use tip in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Did you leave a tip?
Tom left a large tip on the table.
How much do you leave for a tip in Spain?
Don't forget to tip the porter for carrying your luggage.
Don't be mean with the tip.
That evening I left my tip under a coffee cup, which I left upside down on the table.
It's on the tip of my tongue.
What you see above the water is just the tip of the iceberg.
His name is on the tip of my tongue.
His name was on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn't remember it.
His room is always a tip.
The finger approaches the tip of the nose.
If you don't like the service, don't leave a tip.
I have a wooden back-scratcher whose tip is carved in the shape of a hand.
The tip of the spear was dipped in a deadly poison.
It's the tip of the iceberg.
The words themselves are on the tip of my tongue, but I just can't say it.
The word is on the tip of my tongue.

Movie subtitles

When he and his fellow sailors rounded the Cape of Good Hope, the southernmost tip of Africa, they weren't wondering, as the Chinese had, if they could find some exotic animals to take home to their king.
It's on the tip of my tongue.
Such a good tip.
Aw, it's a shoelace tip.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Yeah, we killed him with a felt-tip pen.
We felt-tip penned him to death.
And I pretend to tip the baristas so that they'll like me.
Don't forget to leave a tip.
Let me give you a tip.
Joe Massara got the tip, and he called up.
Now listen, we've got a tip.
A tip? Get out!
Do you have anything convincing to offer us? A worthwhile reason you'd tip us off?
Listen, we've got a tip.
So top tip, my delirious ducky wucky.
Hey, skinny, you're gonna tip us over! Come on, try sideways!
Men would tip their hat to you on the street.
Thanks for the tip.
You wouldn't drive slowly, so you don't get a tip.
I bet him a new plane that you'd tip your hand in the first 24 hours.
Tip your hat when you speak to a lady.
Oh, why not take a tip from their natural instincts, sir, and let the whole thing go.
And I'll give you a handsome tip if you get it to the right person.
And little songs, too, about the tip of my mother's nose.
Say, if we only had some dough. I got a tip on Sun-Up.
The ability to find out just by brushing against the tip of a hand. That would be nice.
Do you need a small tip?
But somebody better tip that ape off who I am.
Thanks for the tip, Fanny.
What did she do to tip her mitt?
Now you've got your tip, so run along.
So your old friends aren't good enough for you anymore? Let me give you a tip.

News and current affairs

The perceived lack of leadership from the Commission at this time of deepening economic gloom is just the tip of the iceberg.
Fiscal policy is, of course, only the tip of the iceberg.
Equilibrium requires that outsiders not tip the balance of a ship of state already enduring a rough ride.
And any additional shock could tip this unstable global economy back into full-fledged recession.
The problem is that most economies are now barely bottoming out, so reversing the fiscal and monetary stimulus too soon - before private demand has recovered more robustly - could tip these economies back into deflation and recession.
Indeed, official censorship is only the tip of an iceberg of cultural censorship.
But I would submit that Hollywood's misgivings, however untutored, represent only the tip of a growing iceberg of resentment against the perceived injustices of globalization.
Could such changes in psychology be big enough to tip us into a world recession?
They worry that politicians and journalists who oppose their strategies for closer political and economic union could yet tip the balance of public opinion against the EU.
But the bond purchases are just the tip of the iceberg.
Some central bankers now worry that ending these measures prematurely will tip the economy back into recession.
NEW YORK - Greece's fiscal problems are, as I have argued many times, but the tip of a global iceberg.
No one points out the huge opportunity cost of what could have been and what could still be - albeit barely - if the US took decisive action to save tens of thousands of Syrian lives and possibly tip the balance of the conflict.
Its post-2008 recovery has slowed, and some observers fear that Europe's financial problems could tip the American and world economy into a second recession.
It probably would not tip the balance if the situation in Libya deteriorates into a full-scale civil war.
The voter anger expressed in the US mid-term elections could prove to be only the tip of the iceberg.
For a facial slap, the interrogator was supposed to hit with fingers slightly spread, at equal length between the tip of the chin and the bottom of the corresponding earlobe.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg of the tens of millions that can be tracked.
A Fed rate hike might not tip it over, but some other seemingly innocuous event could.
There is no way to know whether the smuggling effort uncovered in Moldova is an outlier or the tip of a very large iceberg.
It is a similar story for several species of shark, including the oceanic white-tip, scalloped hammerhead, and the great and spiny dogfish.
But economic closeness is merely the tip of the Iraqi-Jordanian relationship.
One name on the tip of many tongues here is Central Bank Governor Sadiq al-Kabir.
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