Pip

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  • noun. The small seed of a fruit, as that of an apple or orange.
  • intransitive verb. To break through (the shell) in hatching. Used chiefly of birds.
  • intransitive verb. To peep or chirp.
  • noun. A short, high-pitched radio signal.
  • noun. A disease of birds, characterized by a thick mucous discharge that forms a crust in the mouth and throat.
  • noun. A minor unspecified human ailment.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A dot indicating a unit of numerical value on dice or dominoes.
  • noun. A mark indicating the suit or numerical value of a playing card.
  • noun. A spot or speck.
  • noun. A rootstock of certain flowering plants, especially the lily of the valley.
  • noun. Any of the small segments that make up the surface of a pineapple.
  • noun. A shoulder insignia indicating the rank of certain officers, as in the British Army.
  • noun. undefined
  • transitive verb. To wound or kill with a bullet.
  • transitive verb. To defeat.
  • transitive verb. To blackball.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To blackball.
  • To peep, pipe, or chirp, as a chick or young bird.
  • To crack or chip a hole through (the shell): said of a chick in the egg.
  • noun. A disease of fowls, consisting in a secretion of thick mucus in the mouth and throat, often accompanied by the formation of a sheath-like scale on the end of the tongue: not to be confused with canker or roup.
  • noun. The kernel or seed of fruit, as of an apple or an orange.
  • noun. One of the spots on dice or on playing-cards: thus, the ace has one pip; the ten, ten pips.
  • noun. One of the rhomboid-shaped spaces into which the surface of a pineapple is divided.
  • noun. A trade-name used by manufacturers and dealers in artificial flowers for an imitation of the central part of a flower which bears the seeds or fruit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A seed, as of an apple or orange.
  • noun. A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a “scale” on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.
  • noun. One of the conventional figures or “spots” on playing cards, dominoes, etc.
  • intransitive verb. To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To peep, to chirp
  • verb. To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg
  • noun. 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 if he is to continue his call.
  • noun. Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
  • noun. One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
  • noun. One of the stars worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
  • noun. A spot; a speck.
  • noun. A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
  • noun. A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
  • verb. To get the better of; to defeat
  • verb. To hit with a gunshot
  • noun. The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
  • noun. A pippin.
  • noun. A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as an peach, orange, or apple.
  • noun. Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
  • noun. P in RAF phonetic alphabet
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. kill by firing a missile
  • noun. a minor nonspecific ailment
  • noun. a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
  • noun. a small hard seed found in some fruits
  • noun. a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface
  • Word Usage
    "The officer who was in charge of the o'pip is here today."