tip – English noun declension

English noun forms of tip

Noun: tip
Singulartip
Pluraltips

Sample Sentences

  • the tip of one's nose
  • When he woke up, about half an hour after, he called it to him again, but Dash only looked sheepish and wagged the tip of his tail. [1848, Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:]
  • The present-day city of Ji’an at the southern tip of Jilin province was the second capital (3-427 CE) of the Gaogouli kingdom during its middle period. [2004, Xiaoneng Yang, “Early Imperial China (Qin Dynasty through Southern and Northern Dynasties Period)”, in Xiaoneng Yang, editor, New Perspectives on China's Past: Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth Century, volume 2, Yale University Press; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 324:]
  • From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip. [2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:]
  • a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.
  • chicken tips over rice, pork tips, marinated alligator tips
  • He dutifully speared a beef tip and chewed it with false gusto. [1998, Alan Morris, “Between Earth and Sky”, in Guardians of the North, book 4; →ISBN:]
  • my tip sticky rn
  • What's your tip color?

Etymology

1. From Middle English tip, typ, tippe (“tip”), of obscure and uncertain origin. Perhaps distantly related to top.
2. Related to Saterland Frisian Tip (“tip”), West Frisian tippe, tip (“tip”), Dutch tip (“tip”), German Low German Tip, Tippel (“tip”), dialectal German Zipf (“tip”) (diminutive Zipfel used in Standard German), Danish tip (“tip”), Swedish tipp (“tip”), Icelandic typpi (“knob, pin, penis”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Timpe (“tip”), West Frisian timpe (“tip”), Old English tæppa (“tap, spigot”), Middle High German züpfel (“pointed end, tip”). See: Dutch Nouns 'tip', German Nouns 'Zipf', Swedish Nouns 'tipp', Icelandic Nouns 'typpi', Old English Nouns 'tæppa'.

Verbs referencing "tip"

Czech Nouns tip, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns tips, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns tips, Swedish Nouns tips, Icelandic Nouns typpi, Finnish Nouns tippi, German Nouns Tipp, German Nouns Zipf.