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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