Pipname詞源 1/pɪp/

• 1

  A diminutive form of the given names Philip, Phillip, Pippi and Philippa.

  • My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

Pipname詞源 2/pɪp/

• 1

  slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsThe 1914 Star or 1914–15 Star medal.

pipnoun詞源 1/pɪp/

• 1

  Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.

• 2

  datedA disease, malaise or depression in humans.

  • 1912, D. H. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett I've got the pip horribly at present.
  • Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot.

pipnoun詞源 2/pɪp/

• 1

  obsoleteA pippin, seed of any kind.

• 2

  obsoleteA pippin, seed of any kind.

  • Apple pips are edible, but don't have a pleasant taste.
  • On most of the shores of the ancient Mediterranean, before any historical record, the cultivated grape vine, Vitis vinifera Linn., was grown. Its relationship to the wild vine of Eurasia, Vitis silvestris Gmel., is uncertain. Its pips can mostly be distinguished from those of the wild vine, and have been found in Egypt and Syrian Hama from the fourth millennium BC, at Lachish and Jericho in the early Bronze, at Troy II during the Bronze, in the Peloponnesus from Early Helladic, in Crete from the Early Minoan.
• 3

  Something or someone excellent, of high quality.

  • She sure is a pip, that one. You need company?
• 4

  datedP in RAF phonetic alphabet.

pipverb詞源 2/pɪp/

• 1

  To remove the pips from.

  • Peel and pip the grapes.

pipnoun詞源 3/pɪp/

• 1

  One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.

• 2

  governmentmilitarypoliticsOne of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.

• 3

  A spot; a speck.

• 4

  A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.

• 5

  A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation

pipverb詞源 3/pɪp/

• 1

  To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.

  • He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post.
  • Arteta faced much scrutiny after Spurs pipped the Gunners to Champions League football on the final day of last season, with opposite number Conte deservedly hailed for the transformation he had overseen in just a few months at the helm.
• 2

  To hit with a gunshot.

  • The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.

pipverb詞源 4/pɪp/

• 1

  To peep, to chirp.

• 2

  biologynatural-sciencesornithologyTo make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.

pipnoun詞源 5/pɪp/

• 1

  One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.

  • I could clearly hear the frequent cataclysms of the upstairs lavatory, and my day began with the pips for the morning news in Charlotte Lawless's kitchen.

pipnoun詞源 6/pɪp/

• 1

  businessfinanceThe smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.

  • The set-and-forget trader is playing fundamental direction and is seeking very large moves of 150 to 300 pips. This trader doesn't want to sit and watch the screen but play the longer moves and forces behind forex.

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