| word | tip |
|---|---|
| definition | noun The tip of something long and narrow is the end of it. The sleeves covered his hands to the tips of his fingers. She poked and shifted things with the tip of her walking stick. The city was concentrated into the southern tip of the island. A tip is a place where rubbish is left. Officers had found a large bread knife on the rubbish tip. I took a load of rubbish and grass cuttings to the tip. If you describe a place as a tip, you mean it is very untidy . The flat is an absolute tip. If you give a tip to someone such as a waiter in a restaurant, you give them some money to thank them for their services. I gave the barber a tip. The Head Porter was keeping all the tips. A tip is a useful piece of advice . It shows how to prepare a CV, and gives tips on applying for jobs. ...tips for busy managers. A good tip is to buy the most expensive lens you can afford. Someone's tip for a race or competition is their advice on its likely result, especially to someone who wants to bet money on the result. I've a tip for the races. United are still my tip for the Title. verb If you tip an object or part of your body or if it tips, it moves into a sloping position with one end or side higher than the other. He leaned away from her, and she had to tip her head back to see him. A young boy is standing on a stool, reaching for a cookie jar, and the stool is about to tip. The north pole is slightly tipped towards the sun. If you tip something somewhere, you pour it there. Tip the vegetables into a bowl. She took out the plate, stared blankly at the dried-up food on it, and tipped it into the bin. Tip away the salt and wipe the pan. To tip rubbish means to get rid of it by leaving it somewhere. ...the costs of tipping rubbish in landfills. How do you stop people tipping? We live in a street off Soho Road and there's rubbish tipped everywhere. If you tip someone such as a waiter in a restaurant, you give them some money in order to thank them for their services. Do you really think it's customary to tip the waiters? She tipped the barmen 10 dollars and bought drinks all round. A 10 percent service charge is added in lieu of tipping. If a person is tipped to do something or is tipped for success at something, experts or journalists believe that they will do that thing or achieve that success. He is tipped to be the country's next foreign minister. He was widely tipped for success. |
| inflections | tipstippingtippedtipping |
| cefr-level | B1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b1
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