Sap vs. Sip — What's the Difference?

Sap is a fluid transported in xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant. These cells transport water and nutrients throughout the plant.

To drink in small quantities.

The watery fluid that circulates through a plant, carrying food and other substances to the various tissues.

To drink from in sips.

See cell sap.

To drink something in sips.

Health and energy; vitality

The act of sipping.

(Slang) A foolish or gullible person.

A small quantity of liquid sipped.

A covered trench or tunnel dug to a point near or within an enemy position.

A small mouthful of drink

A leather-covered bludgeon with a short, flexible shaft or strap, used as a hand weapon.

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

To drain (a tree, for example) of sap.

(intransitive) To drink a small quantity.

To deplete or weaken gradually

To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.

To undermine the foundations of (a fortification).

Alternative form of seep

To dig a sap.

(figurative) To consume slowly.

To hit or knock out with a sap.

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

(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

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

(uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.

Any juice.

To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.

(figurative) Vitality.

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

A naive person; a simpleton

A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.

A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

A small drink

(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Drink in sips;

(transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).

To exhaust the vitality of.

To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

(transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

To pierce with saps.

(transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

(transitive) To gradually weaken.

(intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.

A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

To pierce with saps.

To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant

A person who lacks good judgment

A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

Deplete;

Excavate the earth beneath