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Webster 1913 Edition
Sip
Sip
(sĭp)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Sipped
(sĭpt)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sipping
.] 1.
To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid;
“Every herb that sips the dew.” as, to
. sip
teaMilton.
2.
To draw into the mouth; to suck up;
as, a bee
. sips
nectar from the flowers3.
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,
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
Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight
Beyond the bliss of dreams.
sip
of thisWill 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
English
Noun
sip (plural sips)
Translations
A small mouthful of drink
Verb
sip (third-person singular simple present sips, present participle sipping, simple past and past participle sipped)
- (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.’
- A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
- 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.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5
- (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.
- John Dryden
- To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
- John Dryden
- They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.
- John Dryden
- (Scotland, US, dated) Alternative form of seep
Synonyms
- nurse
- See also Wikisaurus:drink
Translations
To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time
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See also
Anagrams
Dutch
Adjective
sip (comparative sipper, superlative sipst)
Inflection
| Inflection of sip | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | sip | |||
| inflected | sippe | |||
| comparative | sipper | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | sip | sipper | het sipst het sipste |
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| indefinite | m./f. sing. | sippe | sippere | sipste |
| n. sing. | sip | sipper | sipste | |
| plural | sippe | sippere | sipste | |
| definite | sippe | sippere | sipste | |
| partitive | sips | sippers | — | |