Tip: Definition and part of speech

Tip

  1. n. Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
  5. n. A thin, boarded brush made of camel’s hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
  6. v. i. To fall on, or incline to, one side.
  7. n. A light touch or blow; a tap.
  8. n. A gift; a douceur; a fee.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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