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Webster 1913 Edition


Sip

Sip

(sĭp)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Sipped
(sĭpt)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Sipping
.]
[OE.
sippen
; akin to OD.
sippen
, and AS.
s[GREEK]pan
to sip, suck up, drink. See
Sup
,
Verb.
T.
]
1.
To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid;
as, to
sip
tea
.
“Every herb that sips the dew.”
Milton.
2.
To draw into the mouth; to suck up;
as, a bee
sips
nectar from the flowers
.
3.
To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
[Poetic]
They skim the floods, and
sip
the purple flowers.
Dryden.

Sip

,
Verb.
I.
To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.
[She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace;
Then,
sipping
, offered to the next in place.
Dryden.

Sip

,
Noun.
1.
The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
2.
A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.
One
sip
of this
Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight
Beyond the bliss of dreams.
Milton.
A
sip
is all that the public ever care to take from reservoirs of abstract philosophy.
De Quincey.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sip

SIP

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To take a fluid into the mouth in small quantities by the lips; as, to sip wine; to sip tea or coffee.
2.
To drink or imbibe in small quantities. Every herb that sips the dew.
3.
To draw into the mouth ; to extract; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.
4.
To drink out of. They skim the floods, and sip the purple flow'rs.

Definition 2024


sip

sip

See also: síp, Síp, şip, and šíp

English

Noun

sip (plural sips)

  1. A small mouthful of drink

Translations

Verb

sip (third-person singular simple present sips, present participle sipping, simple past and past participle sipped)

  1. (transitive) To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5
      He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess:
      A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
         ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’
    • 2013 August 3, Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
      Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
  2. (intransitive) To drink a small quantity.
    • John Dryden
      [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping, offered to the next in place.
  3. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
    • John Dryden
      They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.
  4. (Scotland, US, dated) Alternative form of seep

Synonyms

  • nurse
  • See also Wikisaurus:drink

Translations

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Anagrams


Dutch

Adjective

sip (comparative sipper, superlative sipst)

  1. sad, subdued

Inflection

Inflection of sip
uninflected sip
inflected sippe
comparative sipper
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial sip sipper het sipst
het sipste
indefinite m./f. sing. sippe sippere sipste
n. sing. sip sipper sipste
plural sippe sippere sipste
definite sippe sippere sipste
partitive sips sippers

Synonyms


Lojban

Rafsi

sip

  1. rafsi of sipna.

Spanish

Interjection

sip

  1. (colloquial) yep, yeah, uh-huh

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English ship.

Noun

sip

  1. ship