Gratuity vs. Tip — What's the Difference?

A gratuity (normally called a tip) is a sum of money customarily given by a client or customer to certain service sector workers for the service they have performed, in addition to the basic price of the service. It may or may not be customary to tip servers in bars and restaurants, taxi drivers (including ridesharing), hair stylists and so on, but this depends on the country or location.

The end of a pointed or projecting object.

A favor or gift, usually in the form of money, given in return for service.

A piece or an attachment, such as a cap or ferrule, meant to be fitted to the end of something else

An additional payment given freely as thanks for service.

The act of tipping.

Euphemistic form of fee, in contexts where such additional payments have been made obligatory.

A tilt or slant; an incline.

Euphemistic form of bribe

Chiefly British An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish.

Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present.

A light blow; a tap.

Something voluntarily given in return for a favor or service, as a recompense or acknowledgment.

(Baseball) A pitched ball that is tipped

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

A small sum of money given to someone for performing a service; a gratuity.

An award (as for meritorious service) given without claim or obligation

A piece of confidential, advance, or inside information

A helpful hint

To furnish with a tip.

To cover or decorate the tip of

To remove the tip of

To dye the ends of (hair or fur) in order to blend or improve appearance.

To push or knock over; overturn or topple

To move to a slanting position; tilt

To touch or raise (one's hat) in greeting.

To empty (something) by overturning; dump.

To dump (rubbish, for example).

To topple over; overturn

To be tilted; slant

To strike gently; tap.

(Baseball) To hit (a pitched ball) with the side of the bat so that it glances off.

(Sports) To tap or deflect (a ball or puck, for example), especially in scoring.

(Sports) To deflect or glance off. Used of a ball or puck.

Lower Southern US To tiptoe.

To give a tip to

To give as a tip

To provide with a piece of confidential, advance, or inside information

To give tips or a tip

The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.

A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.

(music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.

A small piece of meat.

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

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

Synonym of eartip

The knocking over of a skittle.

An act of tipping up or tilting.

An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.

Rubbish thrown from a quarry.

A recycling centre.

(colloquial) A very untidy place.

The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips

A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.

A light blow or tap.

A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.

A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.

A piece of advice.

(AU) A prediction or bet about the outcome of something.

(transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.

(ergative) (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.

(ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.

To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.

To drink.

(transitive) To dump (refuse).

To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.

(transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.

To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.

To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.

To give, pass.

To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.

(AU) To predict or bet on something having a particular outcome.

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.

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.

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

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

Rubbish thrown from a quarry.

A light touch or blow; a tap.

A gift; a douceur; a fee.

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

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

To strike slightly; to tap.

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

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

To fall on, or incline to, one side.

The extreme end of something; especially something pointed

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

An indication of potential opportunity;

A V shape;

The top point of a mountain or hill;

Cause to tilt;

Mark with a tip;

Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the agreed-on compensation;

Cause to topple or tumble by pushing

To incline or bend from a vertical position;

Walk on one's toes

Strike lightly;

Give insider information or advise to;

Remove the tip from;