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Pip vs. Sip — What's the Difference?

Pip vs. Sip — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Pip and Sip

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Pip

The small seed of a fruit, as that of an apple or orange.

Sip

To drink in small quantities.

Pip

A dot indicating a unit of numerical value on dice or dominoes.

Sip

To drink from in sips.

Pip

A mark indicating the suit or numerical value of a playing card.
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Sip

To drink something in sips.

Pip

A spot or speck.

Sip

The act of sipping.

Pip

A rootstock of certain flowering plants, especially the lily of the valley.

Sip

A small quantity of liquid sipped.

Pip

Any of the small segments that make up the surface of a pineapple.

Sip

A small mouthful of drink

Pip

(Informal) A shoulder insignia indicating the rank of certain officers, as in the British Army.

Sip

(transitive) To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.

Pip

See blip.

Sip

(intransitive) To drink a small quantity.

Pip

A short, high-pitched radio signal.

Sip

To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.

Pip

A disease of birds, characterized by a thick mucous discharge that forms a crust in the mouth and throat.

Sip

Alternative form of seep

Pip

(Slang) A minor unspecified human ailment.

Sip

(figurative) To consume slowly.

Pip

To wound or kill with a bullet.

Sip

To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea.

Pip

To defeat.

Sip

To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.

Pip

To blackball.

Sip

To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.

Pip

To break through (the shell) in hatching. Used chiefly of birds.

Sip

To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.
[She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace;Then, sipping, offered to the next in place.

Pip

To peep or chirp.

Sip

The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.

Pip

Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.

Sip

A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.
One sip of thisWill bathe the drooping spirits in delightBeyond the bliss of dreams.
A sip is all that the public ever care to take from reservoirs of abstract philosophy.

Pip

Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.

Sip

A small drink

Pip

(obsolete) A pippin, seed of any kind.

Sip

Drink in sips;
She was sipping her tea

Pip

(UK) A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as a peach, orange, or apple.
Apple pips are edible, but don't have a pleasant taste.

Pip

Something or someone excellent, of high quality.

Pip

P in RAF phonetic alphabet.

Pip

One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.

Pip

One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.

Pip

A spot; a speck.

Pip

A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.

Pip

A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation

Pip

One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.

Pip

The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.

Pip

(transitive) To remove the pips from.
Peel and pip the grapes.

Pip

To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin
He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post.

Pip

To hit with a gunshot
The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.

Pip

To peep, to chirp

Pip

(avian biology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg

Pip

A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.

Pip

A seed, as of an apple or orange.

Pip

One of the conventional figures or "spots" on playing cards, dominoes, etc.

Pip

To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.
To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg.

Pip

A disease of poultry

Pip

A minor nonspecific ailment

Pip

A small hard seed found in some fruits

Pip

A mark on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)

Pip

A radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface

Pip

Kill by firing a missile

Pip

Hit with a missile from a weapon

Pip

Defeat thoroughly;
He mopped up the floor with his opponents

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