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Sip

//sɪp// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Session Initiation Protocol Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. 2
    Initialism of Supplementary Ideographic Plane, the third plane (Plane 2) in Unicode, with 65,536 codepoints (from U+20000 through U+2FFFF), mainly used for less-common CJK characters. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  3. 3
    Initialism of System Integrity Protection. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. 4
    Initialism of Strengthening Institutions Program. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "“The Budget does not include funding for the Strengthening Institutions Program (SIP). SIP is duplicative of other Title III and V program funding for institutional support activities."

Noun
  1. 1
    A small mouthful of drink
  2. 2
    Acronym of single-issue publication. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  3. 3
    a small drink wordnet
  4. 4
    An event at which people drink alcohol in small, usually sub-intoxicating amounts.

    "Earl is always a good time. His appearance at parties, whether it's a smart cocktail sip or a basement gig, is mandatory."

Verb
  1. 1
    To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time. transitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    drink in sips wordnet
  3. 3
    To drink a small quantity. intransitive

    "[She] rais'd it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping, offered to the next in place."

  4. 4
    To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.

    "They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers."

  5. 5
    Alternative form of seep. Scotland, US, alt-of, alternative, dated
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  1. 6
    To consume slowly. figuratively

    "Sales of lightbulbs which sip electricity, and whose increased cost in the shops is easily paid for over their lifetime, used to double every year; in 1990/1991, they leapt sevenfold."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English sippen, of uncertain origin. Compare with Low German sippen (“to sip”). Possibly from a variant of Middle English suppen (“to drink, sip”) (see sup) or perhaps from Old English sipian, sypian (“to take in moisture, soak, macerate”), from Proto-Germanic *sipōną (“to drip, trickle”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out, trickle, leak out”). Compare also Old High German supfen (“to drink, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (“to sip, intake”).

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English sippen, of uncertain origin. Compare with Low German sippen (“to sip”). Possibly from a variant of Middle English suppen (“to drink, sip”) (see sup) or perhaps from Old English sipian, sypian (“to take in moisture, soak, macerate”), from Proto-Germanic *sipōną (“to drip, trickle”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out, trickle, leak out”). Compare also Old High German supfen (“to drink, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (“to sip, intake”).

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