pip

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 pĭp

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
  2. A pippin, seed of any kind. obsolete
  3. The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
    — The set-and-forget trader is playing fundamental direction and is seeking very large moves of 150 to 300 pips. This trader doesn't want to sit and watch the screen but play the longer moves and forces behind forex.
  4. 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.
    — I could clearly hear the frequent cataclysms of the upstairs lavatory, and my day began with the pips for the morning news in Charlotte Lawless's kitchen.
  5. One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
  6. A disease, malaise or depression in humans. dated,humorous
    — 1912, D. H. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett I've got the pip horribly at present.
  7. 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 pippin, seed of any kind.; A seed inside certain fleshy fruits, such as the stone (pit) of a stonefruit or the smaller seeds of an orange or apple. UK,obsolete
    — Apple pips are edible, but don't have a pleasant taste.
  9. A spot; a speck.
  10. Something or someone excellent, of high quality. US,colloquial
    — She sure is a pip, that one. You need company?
  11. P in RAF phonetic alphabet. UK,World-War-I,dated
  12. A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
  13. A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
动词 v.
  1. To remove the pips from. transitive
    — Peel and pip the grapes.
  2. To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin. transitive
    — He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post.
  3. To peep, to chirp. intransitive
  4. To hit with a gunshot. transitive
    — The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.
  5. To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
like a chicken with the pip pippy apple pip pip emma pipfruit pipless squeeze the pips two pips until the pips squeak pipper pipsqueak
相关词
pip to the post pip at the post

词源

词源 1
From Middle English pippe, from Middle Dutch pip, from post-classical Latin pipita, from Latin pītuīta (“mucus, phlegm, head cold”). Doublet of pituita.
词源 2
Apparently representing a shortened form of pippin, from Middle English pipin, from Old French pepin (“a seed”) (French pépin).
词源 3
Origin uncertain; perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.
词源 4
Imitative.
词源 5
Imitative.
词源 6
Abbreviation of percentage in point.
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