pip
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
- 2.
(dated, humorous)A disease, malaise or depression in humans.
1912, D. H. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett I've got the pip horribly at present.
- 3.
(obsolete)A pippin, seed of any kind.
- 4.
(US, colloquial)Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
- 5.
(British, World War I, dated)(British, dated, World War I, signalese) P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
- 6.
One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
- 7.
(military, public service) One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
- 8.
A spot; a speck.
- 9.
A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
- 10.
A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
- 11.
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 to continue the call.
- 12.
(finance, currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To remove the pips from.
Peel and pip the grapes.
- 2.
(transitive)To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.
He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post.
Đồng nghĩa: pip to the post
- 3.
(transitive)To hit with a gunshot.
The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.
- 4.
(intransitive)To peep, to chirp.
- 5.
(ornithology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.
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From Middle English pippe, from Middle Dutch pip, from post-classical Latin pipita, from Latin pītuīta (mucus, phlegm, head cold). pituita.