TIP

2. A Unix program for interactive communication via serial lines.

Unix manual page: tip(1).

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
 

Tip \Tip\, v. i. To fall on, or incline to, one side. --Bunyan. [1913 Webster]

To tip off, to fall off by tipping. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Tip \Tip\, n. [See Tip to strike slightly, and cf. Tap a slight blow.]

1. A light touch or blow; a tap. [1913 Webster]

2. A gift; a douceur; a fee. [Colloq.]

[1913 Webster]

3. A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like. [Sporting Cant] [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Tip \Tip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tipping.]

To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver. [1913 Webster]

With truncheon tipped with iron head. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]

Tipped with jet, Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Tip \Tip\, v. t. [Cf. LG. tippen to tap, Sw. tippa, and E. tap to strike gently.]

1. To strike slightly; to tap. [1913 Webster]

A third rogue tips me by the elbow. --Swift. [1913 Webster]

2. To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant. [Colloq.]

--Thackeray. [1913 Webster]

3. To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Tip \Tip\, n. [Akin to D. & Dan. tip, LG. & Sw. tipp, G. zipfel, and probably to E. tap a plug, a pipe.]

1. 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. [1913 Webster]

To the very tip of the nose. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2. 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. [1913 Webster]

3. (Hat Manuf.) A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown. [1913 Webster]

4. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf. [1913 Webster]

5. Rubbish thrown from a quarry. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

tip

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Tip \Tip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tipping.]

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Tip \Tip\, n. [Akin to D. & Dan. tip, LG. & Sw. tipp, G. zipfel, and probably to E. tap a plug, a pipe.]

1. 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.

To the very tip of the nose. --Shak.

2. 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. (Hat Manuf.) A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.

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

5. Rubbish thrown from a quarry.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Tip \Tip\, v. t. [Cf. LG. tippen to tap, Sw. tippa, and E. tap to strike gently.]

1. To strike slightly; to tap.

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

2. To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant. [Colloq.]

--Thackeray.

3. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Tip \Tip\, v. i. To fall on, or incline to, one side. --Bunyan.

To tip off, to fall off by tipping.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Tip \Tip\, n. [See Tip to strike slightly, and cf. Tap a slight blow.]

1. A light touch or blow; a tap.

2. A gift; a douceur; a fee. [Colloq.]

3. A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like. [Sporting Cant]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)