Tip
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.
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.
A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver.
To strike slightly; to tap.
To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant.
To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart.
To fall on, or incline to, one side.
A light touch or blow; a tap.
A gift; a douceur; a fee.
A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like.
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Tip Quotations
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
Arnold Palmer
I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.
Mike Tyson
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Frank Lloyd Wright
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Ray Bradbury
The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.
Thomas E. Mann
Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.
Mike Epps
All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me.
Dave Winfield
I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
Wislawa Szymborska
Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
Marilyn vos Savant
Tip Translations
tip in Afrikaans is fooitjie, wenk
tip in Danish is top, drikkepenge, spids
tip in Dutch is stortplaats
tip in French is pronostic, indication, pourboire, terminaison
tip in German is Trinkgeld, Tip, Spitze, Hinweis
tip in Norwegian is drikkepenger
tip in Portuguese is ponta, gorjeta
tip in Spanish is propina, remision, basurero, punta
tip in Swedish is spets, tipp, tippa, drickspengar
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