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sip
[sip] 
verb, sipped, sip⋅ping, noun –verb (used with object)
| 1. | to drink (a liquid) a little at a time; take small tastes of: He sipped the hot tea noisily. |
| 2. | to drink from a little at a time: The bird sipped the flower. |
| 3. | to take in; absorb: to sip knowledge at its source. |
–verb (used without object)
| 4. | to drink by sips. |
–noun
| 5. | an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid: One sip told me that the milk was sour. |
| 6. | a small quantity taken by sipping: Take just a sip, not a gulp or a swallow. |
Origin:
1350–1400; ME sippen (v.), akin to LG sippen to sip
1350–1400; ME sippen (v.), akin to LG sippen to sip
Related forms:
sip⋅ping⋅ly, adverb
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| sip (sĭp) v. sipped, sip·ping, sips v. tr.
To drink something in sips. n.
[Middle English sippen; see seuə-2 in Indo-European roots.] sip'per n. |
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Sip
Sip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Sipping.] [OE. sippen; akin to OD. sippen, and AS. s?pan to sip, suck up, drink. See Sup, v. 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
Sip\, v. 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
Sip\, n. 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.Sip
Sip\, v. i. See Seep. [Scot. & U.S.]
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Language Translation for : sip
Spanish:
sorber, beber a sorbos,
German:
nippen,
Japanese:
すする
sip (v.)
c.1386, perhaps related to Low Ger. sippen "to sip," or O.E. supan "to take into the mouth a little at a time" (see sup (2)). The noun is attested from 1633.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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