Tip
[tɪp]
解释:
(noun.) an indication of potential opportunity; 'he got a tip on the stock market'; 'a good lead for a job'.
(noun.) the extreme end of something; especially something pointed.
(verb.) remove the tip from; 'tip artichokes'.
(verb.) mark with a tip; 'tip the arrow with the small stone'.
(verb.) cause to tilt; 'tip the screen upward'.
(verb.) give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on; 'Remember to tip the waiter'; 'fee the steward'.
贝妮塔整理--From WordNet
解释:
(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.
(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.
(n.) A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
(n.) A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
(n.) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
(v. t.) To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver.
(v. t.) To strike slightly; to tap.
(v. t.) To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant.
(v. t.) To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart.
(v. i.) To fall on, or incline to, one side.
(n.) A light touch or blow; a tap.
(n.) A gift; a douceur; a fee.
(n.) A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like.
整理:尼古拉斯
同义词及近义词:
n. End, point, extremity.
v. a. [1]. Top, cap, put a point on.[2]. Tap, strike (lightly).[3]. Incline (to one end, as a cart), cant.
v. n. Lean, incline, tilt.
阿曼德录入
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Point, extremity, end, top, cap,[See_TINGE]
录入:鲁道夫
解释:
n. the top or point of anything small: the end as of a billiard-cue &c.—v.t. to form a point to: to cover the tip or end of:—pr.p. tip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. tipped.—On the tip of the tongue on the very point of being spoken.
v.t. to strike lightly: to cause to slant: (slang) to communicate give: (slang) to give private information to about betting &c.: (coll.) to give a small gift of money to as a gratuity.—v.i. to slant: to give tips.—n. a tap or light stroke: a place for tipping any refuse into a dump: a tram for expeditiously transferring coal: private information about horse-racing stock speculations &c.: a gratuity.—ns. Tip′-cart a cart emptied by being canted up; Tip′-cat a game in which a pointed piece of wood called a cat is made to rebound from the ground by being struck on the tip with a stick; Tip′-cheese a boys' game in which a small stick is struck forward; Tip′per a means of tipping esp. an arrangement for dumping coal: one who tips: one who gives gratuities: one who gives private hints about speculation racing &c.; Tip′ping act of tilting: the habit of giving gratuities to servants; Tip′ster one whose business is to give private hints about racing the rise and fall of stocks &c.—adj. Tip′-tilt′ed having the tip tilted up.—Tip off liquor to turn up the vessel till quite empty; Tip one the wink to wink as a caution or in mutual understanding; Tip over to overturn by tipping; Tip the scale to depress one end of the scales.—Foul tip a foul hit in baseball; Straight tip a reliable hint about betting &c.
编辑:梅布尔
娱乐性解释:
Wages we pay other people's hired help.
校对:普拉特
例句:
- Oh, bring him by all means, she said smiling; perhaps I can get a tip out of him on my own account. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Only tip him a nod every now and then when he looks off his paper, said Wemmick, and he'll be as happy as a king. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- She cried, with her clasped hands lifted above her head, that it would kill their father if he ever knew it; and fell down at Tip's graceless feet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I had it on the tip of my tongue to say that my mistress had a party that night. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- From the treating and cutting of the raw material, from the outer bound edge, and the band about the body, to the tip of the crown, a machine may be found for performing each separate step. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Fortunately for that fellow too,' said Tip, 'or he and I might have come into collision. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- In experiment 14 an electric light carbon heated to a red heat at its tip, is plunged vertically into a deep glass of liquid oxygen. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Meyers won on nearly every race but disliked to give tips because it brought down the prices. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- The Wrights doubted whether this was the best form for shifting weather, and built theirs more on the pattern of the gull’s wings, curving slightly at the tips. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- He looked her over in his searching fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- For now he felt like a pair of scales, the half of which tips down and down into an indefinite void. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Oh, said Caleb, leaning forward, adjusting his finger-tips with nicety and looking meditatively on the ground. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Why did she leave him standing there, with the ice-wind blowing through his heart, like death, to gratify herself among the rosy snow-tips? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- As the narrative proceeded, all the warm blood in the body of Mr. Nupkins tingled up into the very tips of his ears. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Anselmo tipped it up and swallowed. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Leisurely tipped back on one chair, with his heels in another, he was enjoying his after-dinner cigar. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Then he gave a short laugh, and drew out a gold cigarette-case, in which, with plump jewelled fingers, he groped for a gold-tipped cigarette. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- He stood with the umbrella until we were in and I had tipped him. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- The carboy tipped over, the acid ran out, went through to the manager's room below, and ate up his desk and all the carpet. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Holmes stretched out his hand at the same moment, and between them they tipped the box over the edge. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- There was a big empty twowheeled cart, the shafts tipped high up in the rain. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- You'd better have the loan of my razor this morning, Mr. Ayresleigh,' said the man who was stirring the fire, tipping the wink to his friend the boy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The lever is instantly moved to keep the machine from tipping to the other side. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- He took the wine bottle and tipping his head back swallowed steadily while he squirted a jet of wine into the back of his mouth. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- They were all eating, holding their chins close over the basin, tipping their heads back, sucking in the ends. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
校对:迈拉