Rip vs. Pip — What's the Difference?

A stretch of water in a river, estuary, or tidal channel made rough by waves meeting an opposing current.

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

A rip current.

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

A dissolute person.

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

An old or worthless horse.

A spot or speck.

A tear (in paper, etc.).

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

A type of strong, rough tide or current.

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

(Australia, New Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.

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

(slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.

See blip.

(slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.

A short, high-pitched radio signal.

A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.

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

(slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.

(Slang) A minor unspecified human ailment.

Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.

To wound or kill with a bullet.

Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.

To defeat.

A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.

To blackball.

Ellipsis of ripsaw.

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

A joyride.

To peep or chirp.

A wicker basket for fish.

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

A worthless horse; a nag.

Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.

An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.

(obsolete) A pippin, seed of any kind.

(transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.

(UK) A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as a peach, orange, or apple.

(intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.

Something or someone excellent, of high quality.

(transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.

P in RAF phonetic alphabet.

To move quickly and destructively.

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

(woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.

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.

To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.

A spot; a speck.

To take a "hit" of marijuana.

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

(slang) To fart.

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

To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)

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.

To steal; to rip off.

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

To move or act fast; to rush headlong.

(transitive) To remove the pips from.

(archaic) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; usually with up.

To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin

To surf extremely well.

To hit with a gunshot

A wicker fish basket.

To peep, to chirp

A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.

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

A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.

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.

A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.

A seed, as of an apple or orange.

To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; - commonly used with up, open, off.

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

To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.

To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.

To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; - usually with up.

A disease of poultry

To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.

A minor nonspecific ailment

A dissolute man in fashionable society

A small hard seed found in some fruits

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

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

A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current

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

The act of rending or ripping or splitting something;

Kill by firing a missile

Tear or be torn violently;

Hit with a missile from a weapon

Move precipitously or violently;

Defeat thoroughly;

Cut (wood) along the grain

Criticize or abuse strongly and violently;