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tip (TIP) (noun)
A top or end: "The hotel is located at the tip of a high hill on the opposite tip of this island."
tip (TIP) (noun)
A useful hint or to give useful or secret information to someone: "Someone finally gave the police a significant tip about the robbers who stole the money from the store."
tip (TIP) (verb)
To give a small sum of money in addition to the cost of a service as a gratuity: "I'm glad that you remembered to tip the waiter for his good service."
tip (TIP) (verb)
To turn or to move something so that it is not straight or level or to cause something to lean or to slant: "If you're not careful as you lean back on that chair, you will tip over."
When we were traveling to the tip of the island, the local guide gave us a tip about the staff of waiters at the hotel; for example, he suggested that we should be generous with our tip or the water pitcher on the table might "accidentally" tip over and spill into one of our laps.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group T; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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“tip”
(Latin: summit, tip, top, point)
(Latin: top, cap, tip, apex)
(Italian: very small or from Spanish, "beak, tip, very small"; and from Latin, beccus, beak; also, a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)