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Webster 1913 Edition


Tipping

Tip′ping

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Noun.
(Mus.)
A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.

Webster 1828 Edition


Tipping

TIP'PING

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ppr.
Covering the end or tip.

Definition 2024


tipping

tipping

English

Noun

tipping (plural tippings)

  1. The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).
  2. The act by which something is tipped or inclined.
    • 2013, Peter Andersson, Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd
      Hat-tippings and cap-doffings are of course of a different nature to more elaborate verbal greetings. In etiquette manuals they may be described as incentives to a conversation, but in practice they seem to have been quite ceremonial.
  3. The dumping of rubbish.
  4. (music) A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.

Verb

tipping

  1. present participle of tip