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Definition: Nip |
NipNoun1. A small drink of liquor; "he poured a shot of whiskey". 2. A person of Japanese descent. 3. A tart spiciness. 4. A small drink. 5. Small sharp biting. Verb1. Squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle". 2. Give a small sharp bite to; "The Queen's corgies always nip at her staff's ankles". 3. Sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nip" was first used: 14th century. (references) |
Note: Nip \Nip\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Nipped, less properly Nipt; Nipping.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | Something bracing from without or within. When felt in the air, it's a frost. When found in a glass, a life saver. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Geography | Ice is said to nip when it forcibly presses against a ship. A vessel so caught, though undamaged, is said to have been nipped. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | The line or area of contact between two contiguous surfaces. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The zone of deformation of a material layer between the rolls of a press. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Nip (A). As a "nip of whisky," a "nip of brandy," "just a nip." A nipperkin was a small measure. (Dutch, nippen, a sip.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. Where the roof and the floor of a coal seam come close together pinching the coal between them. CF:want b. The contact ends of a cable for quick attachment to a power cable c. The device at the end of the trailing cable of a mining machine used for connecting the trailing cable to the trolley wire and ground d. To move a machine along a track by sliding the nip along the trolley wire e. The seizing of material between the jaws or rolls of a crusher f. See:angle of nip g. To cut grooves at the end of a bar, to make it fit more evenly. h. An undercutting notch in rock, particularly limestone, along a seacoast between high- and low-tide levels produced by erosion or possiblesolution. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | NIP. A cheat. Bung nipper; a cutpurse. NYP, or NIP. A half pint, a nip of ale: whence the nipperkin, a small vessel. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Solar | A Normal Incident Pyrheliometer, used to determine the amount of solar irradiance emitted from the direction of the sun. Below is a picture of two NIPs (silver) mounted on a sun-following tracker (white) at the Solar Radiation Research Laboratory. These thermopile-based radiometers have a uniform spectral response from 280 nm to 2800 nm and a 5.7° field of view. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Nip is a derogatory term for a Japanese person.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nip."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
NIP | Dutch | Nationaal Indicatief Programma | Economics |
NIP | English | Network intelligence platform | N/A |
NIP | Portuguese | Número de Identificação Pessoal | Computing, Finance |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: NipSynonyms: pinch (n), piquance (n), piquancy (n), shot (n), sip (n), tang (n), tanginess (n), zest (n), clip (v), nip off (v), snip (v), snip off (v), squeeze (v), tweet (v), twinge (v), twitch (v), vellicate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Destruction | Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize. |
Disjunction | Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice. |
Food | Drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup; potion, dram, draught, drench, swill; nip, sip, sup, gulp. |
Hindrance | Keep off, stave off, ward off; obviate; avert, antevert; turn aside, draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud; retard, slacken, check, let; counteract, countercheck; preclude, debar, foreclose, estop; inhibit; shackle; (restrain); restrict. |
Killing | Cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of. |
Pungency | Dram, cordial, nip. |
Refrigeration | Verb: cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice; congeal, freeze, glaciate; benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate, nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter, |
Shortness | Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten. |
Taking | Snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up; kidnap, crimp, capture, lay violent hands on. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nip |
| English words defined with "nip": Friction drop hammer ♦ Nipped, Nipt ♦ Sneap. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nip": choke feeding ♦ extensible paper ♦ linear load ♦ NIP CHEESE, Number Nip, NYP ♦ quetsch. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nip" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (grandchild, grandson, nephew), Portuguese (personal identification number). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Better have smelling salts handy and a nip of brandy (Witness for the Prosecution; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Larry Marcus) Tell me where the cat nip is or I'll blackmail it out of you. (Sabrina the Animated Series; writing credit: Josh Stolberg) After a while, a hungry fish comes along, takes a nip at your hook, and you've got dinner (White Heat; writing credit: Virginia Kellogg; Ivan Goff) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nip and Tuck (1923) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | When it comes to the lion business between Ben -- Jim, it's nip and tuck. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Books. Nip and Tuck in Toyland front cover. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | If I have got to drag my trap, I will take care that it be a light one and do not nip me in a vital part |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Small cars are of increasing importance to the automobile companies, despite the small profits they make on each one. Urban congestion has reached a point where traffic speeds in a major city average little more than 11 miles an hour. Purpose-built runabouts, such as Rover's mini, Fiat's Seicento or Mercedes-Benz Smart, can nip through it better than anything else can. The soaring cost of gasoline has also made the 50 miles per gallon of the most frugal cars highly desirable. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nip" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 52.33% of the time. "Nip" is used about 258 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 52.33% | 135 | 27,360 |
| Noun (singular) | 24.03% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 23.64% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Total | 100.00% | 258 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "nip" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Nip | Last name | 130 | 69,638 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "nip": nip along ♦ nip and tuck ♦ nip down ♦ nip goods ♦ nip in ♦ nip in the bud ♦ nip off ♦ nip out ♦ nip up ♦ press roll nip ♦ roll nip ♦ take a nip ♦ To nip in the bud. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "nip": Nip-bsa, nip-caproate-o-succinimide, nip-cheese, nip-derivatised, nip-inside. | |
Ending with "nip": anti-nip, cat-nip. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
nip | 1,180 | long nip | 15 |
nip slip | 846 | nip oops | 14 |
nip and tuck | 125 | nip oops slip | 12 |
puffy nip | 84 | kim lil nip slip | 11 |
big nip | 56 | ganksta nip | 11 |
cat nip | 48 | britney nip slip | 10 |
celeb nip slip | 46 | nip slip stratus trish | 10 |
celebrity nip slip | 43 | gangsta nip | 9 |
cdc.gov nip | 34 | nip teen | 9 |
hard nip | 28 | huge nip | 9 |
britney nip slip spears | 26 | nip slip wwe | 9 |
nip pic slip | 22 | nip nip | 9 |
nip pic | 21 | nip shot | 9 |
nip nip.com | 20 | cold nip | 8 |
fx nip tuck | 20 | nip perky | 8 |
bug bunny nip | 19 | nip slip wrestling | 8 |
cheese nip | 16 | hewitt jennifer love nip slip | 8 |
free nip slip | 15 | nip oops pic | 7 |
mcmahon nip slip stephanie | 15 | beyonce nip slip | 7 |
heaton nip | 15 | nip pierced | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "nip"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ngricë (black ice, freeze, frost), nduk (nibble, pinch, pluck), ndaloj (arrest, balk, ban, bar, baulk, block, break down, cease, challenge, close down, come to a halt, debar, detain, disallow, disqualify, enjoin, estop, forbid, halt, impede, inhibit, interdict, negative, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, pull up, stall, stop, tackle, withhold), kutërbim (odor, odour, reek, stench, stink), arrestoj (arrest, nab, pinch, run in, seize), dëmtoj (affect, batter, blast, blight, break, concuss, cripple, damage, damnify, deface, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, impair, injure, kill, make mischief, mess, prejudice, scathe, spoil, vitiate, wrench), gllënjkë (craving, drachm, draft, drain, dram, draught, drink, drop, gulp, longing, mouthful, peg, pull, sip, smack, sup, swallow, swig, thirst, traction), gotëz (peg, pony, tot), japonez (Japanese, japonic, nipponese), kafshim, çapë (mouthful), kap (affect, apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, captivate, capture, catch, catch on, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, handle, have, hitch, hold, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nobble, overcome, overtake, pick up, pinch, reach, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, swoop, tackle, take, track down, unhang), thumboj (bite, sting), pickim (pinch, pluck, sting), pickoj (bite, pinch, pluck), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), thumbim (sting), kafshoj (bite, bite off, champ, snap at). (various references) | |
Arabic | كبح بشدة, مقدار ضئيل (crumb, dab, dash, dribble, element, glimmer, hint, mouthful, peanut, smack, trace, trifle, whit), لذعه البرد, قرصة (pinch, scratch), قرص (bite, jab, nip out, nipping, pill, pinch, sting, tweak), عض (bitch, bite, champ, nibble, pain, snap), جرعة (dosage, dose, drench, drink, gulp, measure, mouthful, potion, pull, swallow), إنطلق برشاقة, إرتشف (gulp), رشفة (sip, sup). (various references) | |
Basque | erredura (burn, frost nip, scald). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | прескачам (get over, hop, jump, jump over, leap, omit, overleap, skip, skip over, take), мраз (frost), защипване, защипвам (clip), захапване, захапвам (bite, bite into, occlude, snap up), завличам (bilk), задигам (bag, carry away, filch, finger, grab, lift, mooch, pinch, prig, run away with, scarp, scrounge, snaffle, sneak, swipe, walk off with), арестувам (apprehend, arrest, attach, bring in, bust, impound, nab, nail, pick up, pinch, pull, rap, restrain, round up, run in, secure, seize, take in, take up), дразня (annoy, bait, bosh, bugger about, bullyrag, burn up, dig, exacerbate, fetch, fray, fuss, gall, gravel, gripe, harass, irritate, jar, jive, mad, madden, nag, niggle, offend, peeve, pinprick, piss off, play up, provoke, rag, rasp, rib, ride, rile, rub, spite, tease, titillate, try, twit, vex, worry), продупчвам (broach, perforate, punch, transfix), охлаждам (chill, condense, cool, damp, dash, freeze, ice, quench, refrigerate), прерязвам (sever), прещипване, прещипвам (shut), помрачавам (alloy, bedim, cloud, darken, dim, dull, dusk, eclipse, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow, shade, shadow, trouble), попарване (infusion, withering), попарвам (blight, damp, frost, infuse, kill, perish, scald, steam, touch, wither), подрязвам (clip, cut short, dock, lop, pare, scissor, trim, undercut), пипвам (catch, cop, feel, grab, nab, nail, pinch, pull, rap, snag, touch), изтичвам (nip out, pop down, run), пробивам (bore, break through, broach, hole, jump, perforate, pip, prick, rupture, scuttle, sink, smash in), хапка (morsel, mouthful, nibble, taste, tidbit, titbit), ухапване, ухапвам (strike), сграбчвам (catch hold of, clutch, grab, grapple, grasp, hog, lay hold of, nab, seize, snatch, swoop), сарказъм (acerbity, hit, pungency, sarcasm, sneer), спирам развитието на (dwarf, stump, throw back), развалям (alloy, bitch, blunder, break up, change, contaminate, corrupt, deprave, disaffirm, injure, louse up, mangle, mess about, mess around, muddle, murder, mutilate, perish, queer, spoil, uglify, undo, vitiate), раздразвам (aggravate, irritate, madden, nettle, rasp, vex), щипя (bite, pinch, sting, tingle), щипане, открадвам (kidnap, make away with, nobble, pick, pinch, pull, purloin, run away with, snatch, steal, walk away with, walk off with), хапя (bite, nibble, savage, worry), отскачам (bounce, bound, carom, glance, jump, jump back, kick, rebound, recoil, resile, skip, spring, take off), грабвам (catch up, grab, snap up, snatch, steal away, take off, waltz off with, whip away, whip off, whip up, whisk), глътка алкохол (caulker), остър вкус (tang), остър дъх (tang), острота (acridity, acrimony, acuteness, bitterness, cutting edge, edge, fineness, incision, penetration, poignancy, pungency, sharpness, stridency), осакатявам (cripple, disable, dismember, emasculate, hamstring, hock, hough, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate), ощипване (pinch, tweak), ощипвам (pinch, tweak), сръбване (libation, quencher, sup), хващам (capture, catch, clamp, find out, get, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hook, hunt down, land, nail, nobble, pick up, pot, prey upon, run down, seize, snag, strike, take, take effect, take up, track down). (various references) | |
Chinese | ' (bite). (various references) | |
Czech | utlumit (inhibit, scale down, stifle), uštípnout, skřípnutí, rafnutí, rafnout, japonec (japanese, nipper, nipponese), štípnutí (bite, pinch, sting, tweak), štípnout (sting, tweak), špetka (dash, modicum, sprinkling, taste, trace, trifle, whit). (various references) | |
Danish | pressenip (press roll nip, roll nip), indsnaevring (choke, constriction, nip-out, pinch-out, wash-out). (various references) | |
Dutch | borrel (dram, peg, snifter, snorter), aperitief (dram, peg, snifter, snorter). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aperitivo (dram, peg, snifter, snorter). (various references) | |
Farsi | طعم تندوتیز(مثل فلفل), بیحس شدن , دردناک بودن , دراثرسرمازبان , دزدی (Burglary, Larceny, Lift, Robbery, Theft, Thievery), شکفتن (Burst, Dehisce, Open), جزءی (Immaterial, Imperceptible, Inappreciative, Inconsiderable, Inconspicuous, Little, Minuscule, Minute, Negligible, Nominal, Paltry, Partial, Peppercorn, Petty, Piddling, Remote, Retail, Rush, Small, Snatch, Trivial, Vain), جوانه زدن (Branch, Bud, Burgeon, Erupt, Germinate, Grain, Leaf, Peep, Ratoon, Shoot, Sprit, Sprout, Spurt, Tiller), جفت جفت زدن , جیم شدن (Guy, Scram), خرده (Bit, Bittock, Crumb, Debris, Fragment, Glimmer, Grain, Jot, Particle, Shred, Small, Vestige, Weeny, Whit), ببادانتقادگرفتن (Pan, Strafe), صدمه زدن (Damnify, Harm, Mar, Maul, Offend, Scathe), پریدن (Bounce, Hip, Jump, Spout, Spring, Stow, Tumble, Vault), زخم نیشگون , سوزش (Ignition, Irritation, Sting, Twinge, Urticaria(L)), گازگرفتن (Bite, Gnaw, Snap), گیره (Bend, Clamp, Cleat, Dog, Jaw, Pawl, Pin, Pincer, Retainer, Trigger), کش رفتن (Abstract, Cabbage, Palm, Pilfer, Prig, Snip, Snitch, Swipe), نیش (Bite, Prick, Sting, Tang, Tooth, Twinge), چیز (Article, Object, Res, Stuff, Thing), چیزی (Something), مانع رشدونموشدن , منگنه (Compressor), ذره (Ace, Bit, Corpuscle, Dust, Grain, Iota, Jot, Particle, Scruple, Shred, Speck, Vestige, Whit). (various references) | |
Finnish | nipistää (pinch). (various references) | |
French | goutte, aller d'un bon pas, apéritif, apéro, brûler, caponner, donner un coup de dent, espace entre cylindres, écartement entre cylindres, gorgée, zone d'engagement (nipzone), morsure, passe, petit verre, petite quantité, pinçon, pincer (Nick), piquer (Nick), faucher (Nick). (various references) | |
Frisian | foaritentsje (dram, peg, snifter, snorter). (various references) | |
German | zwicken (pinch, to nip, to tweak, tweak), kneifen (back out, chicken out, crap out, duck out, get out, hedge, pinch, pinching, to nip, tweak). (various references) | |
Greek | τσιμπώ (bite, nab, nibble, pinch, sting, stung, tweak, twinge). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לל'ום (gulp, quaff, sip), ל'ימ" (dram, draught, nourishment, sip, sipping, swallow, taste, tasting), לצבוט (bind together, clamp, grasp, pinch), ש"פון (blast, blight, smut), צביט" (clasping, nipping, pinch, pinching). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megcsípés (pinch), korty (draught, godown, gulp, lap, potion, pull, sip, sup, swig, swill, tiff). (various references) | |
Indonesian | minum seteguk, mencubit (tweak), cubit, cecak (dot, fleck, lizard, spot, tweak). (various references) | |
Italian | pizzicare (be hot, bite, pinch, pluck, sting, tingle, tweak). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 芽'摘む (to nip something in the bud, to nip the buds), 摘み取る (to nip off, to pick, to pluck), 剪み切る (to clip, to nip off, to snip, to trim off). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つまみとる (to nip off, to pick, to pluck), つみとる (to nip off, to pick, to pluck), め'つむ (to nip something in the bud, to nip the buds), はさみきる (to clip, to nip off, to snip, to snip off, to trim off). (various references) | |
Manx | spulgaig (pinch), spulg (peck, pinch), spolgey (chip off, chipping, nip off, peck, pinch), spolg (peck, pinch), minniag (a tiny person, bite, bite of insect, diminutive person, pinch, small person, twinge, very small piece), mingyraght, mingey (bite of bird; nipping, bite; nipping, biting, pinch, pinching), jeeylag. (various references) | |
Norwegian | dram (dram, peg, snifter, snorter). (various references) | |
Occitan | cremadura (burn, frost nip, scald). (various references) | |
Papiamen | aperitivo (dram, peg, snifter, snorter). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pretender (aspire, aspire to, claim, contend, desire, hope for, intend, mean, play-act, presume, pretend, purpose, seek, want, wish), picada (bite, cut, dart, pick, pricking, prod, puncture, sting, tingle, trail), morder (bite, champ, nibble, prick, savage, snap), ferrar (brand, calk, clout, hook, savage), estreitamento (hug, intake, narrow, throat), entalar (pinch), dentada (bite, snap), dar beliscões, bicada (peck), belisco (gripe, pinch), beliscar (gripe, pinch, twitch), beliscão (pinch, tweak, twitch), apertar (belay, belt, brace, clasp, clip, clutch, constrain, constrict, grasp, jam, narrow, oppress, pinch, press, ram, run, screw, squeeze, tamp, tighten, wring), aperitivo (appetizer, appetizing, cocktail, dram, peg, snifter, snorter, stomachic, whet), alfinetada. (various references) | |
Romanian | nipon (nipper), apuca (apprehend, captivate, capture, catch, clutch, comprehend, experience, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, nab, pull up, seize, snap, snatch, take), apucare (bout, catch, clutch, grab, grapnel, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, hug, pluck, prehension, purchase, seizing, seizure, snatch), ciuguli (nibble, Peck, pick, pick up, piddle, preen), ciupi (filch, goose, pick, pinch, pit, pluck, twang, tweak), ciupiturã (pinch, pit, tweak), comprimare (compression, condensation, constriction, squeeze), japonez (jap, japanese, nipper), muşca (bite, champ, sting), înghesui (accumulate, amass, bay, beat a path, corner, cram, crib, crowd, heap, jam, jostle, pack, pile up, squeeze, stack, stuff), pişca (bite, pinch, sting, tweak), strop (atom, bead, bit, drop, grain, ounce, Pearl, peg, spatter, speck, spot), pişcãturã (sting, tweak), presa (calender, compress, crowd, dun, force, impact, jam, journalism, press, push, squeeze, stress, urge), presare (depression, jam, press, pressing, push), prinde (acquire, apprehend, attach, bind, book, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clasp, clot, comprehend, cop, Curdle, engage, ferret, find out, fish, fix, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow, hang, have, hit, hitch, intercept, nail, overhear, pin down, reach, recruit, regain, round up, seize, set, shut, stitch, strike, succeed, tack, take, tie, work), prindere (bout, catch, catchment, grip, gripe, hold, hug, seizure, take, taking), sorbiturã (draught, gulp, rouse, sip, snack, sup), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), strânge cu cleştele (pinch), strângere (accumulation, amassment, clench, collection, constriction, contraction, grip, gripe, hug, jam, squeeze), muşcãturã (bite, nibble, snap, wound). (various references) | |
Russian | тиски (clamp, grip, gripe, jaw vice, jaws, scavenger's daughter, stranglehold, vice, vice-grip, vise), побить морозом, прищемить (jam, pinch), пресечь, захватить (collar, make a bag of, make a good bag of, seize), откушенный кусок, откусить, глоток (drain, draught, drink, drop, gulp, mouthful, potation, sip, suck, sup, swallow, swig), побить, кусать (bite, bitten, sting), схватить (capture, catch, clutch, get, get hold of, grapple, gripe, nab, nail, seize, snap up, snatch, tackle), щипать (nibble, pinch, pluck, tweaking), щипать;отщипнуть;щипок, щипок (pinch, tweak), резкое воздействие, японец (japanese, nipponese), японский (japanese, japonic, nipponese), сжатие (clutch, compression, constriction, constringency, contraction, grasp, jam, pinch, pressing, pressure, shrinkage, squeeze), укус (sting), колкость (dig, gibe, mordacity, poignancy, sharpness, sting, zinger). (various references) | |
Scottish | criom (bite, nibbling). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ukleštiti (seize, strangulate), ugušiti (asphyxiate, burke, choke, muffle, quash, quell, repress, scotch, smother, squash, stall, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle), otkinuti (break off, pluck, rip off, sever, tear off), mraz (frost), gutljaj (dram, drink, gulp, sip, swallow, swig, toothful), štipnuti (pinch, tweak), štipanje (tingle, tweak). (various references) | |
Spanish | aperitivo (aperitif, appetizer, dram, peg, snifter, snorter), pellizcar (pinch). (various references) | |
Swedish | nypa (peg, pinch, tweak), frostskada (frost, frost injury, frostbite). (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่อง"ื่มแอลกอฮอล์, ชาวญี่ปุ่น (Nipponese), การหนีบ, หนีบ, ขลิบ. (various references) | |
Turkish | dondurucu soğuk (freeze up, perishing cold), ısırmak (bite, bite off, champ, nibble, savage, snap, sting), çimdik (pinch, tweak), çimdiklemek (pinch, pinch off, tweak), acele ile gitmek (bundle off, fly off, hotfoot, hotfoot it, scamper), ayaz (black frost, blackfrost, dry cold, freezing cold, frost, frosty, jack frost), büyümesini engellemek, budamak (amputate, chip, chop off, cut, cut back, lop, nip off, pare, poll, Pollard, prune, prune away, prune off, trim, truncate), ısırma (bite, biting, snap), dondurmak (chill, congeal, deep freeze, freeze, ice, numb, refrigerate), yudumlamak (sip, sup), japon (jap, japanese, japonic), kıstırmak (bring to bay, claw hold of, corner, jam, jam in, pinch, shut, shut in, tuck), kesme (abscission, clip, curtailment, cut, cutback, cutting, discontinuation, interception, scission, section, shearing, shutoff, stoppage, suppression, truncation), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), soğuktan kavrulma (blast), soğuktan kavrulmak, yudum (drachm, dram, draught, gulp, sip, suck, sup, swallow), cimcik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | лещата (clamp, clutch), дременути (get away, scamper away, scamper off), захват (catch, clinch, delight), затримувати (apprehend, arrest, balk, dam, defer, delay, deport, detain, impede, impound, intern, pull back, withhold), затискати (clasp), затискання (strangulation), відкушений кусок, арештувати (bring up, nab, nail, nobble, put under arrest, run in, shop, take into custody), відкусити, причіпка (arraignment, caption, cavil, chicane, chicanery, nag, nagging), припиняти (abate, adjourn, cease, desist, discontinue, end, give over, leave off, stash, stop, surcease), похолодання, поцупити (nab, nail, nibble, pilfer, pull, scrounge, snitch, walk away, walk off, win), пошкодити (hurt, injure), побити морозом, затирати, роздратовувати (acerbate, anger, discontent, dislike, embitter, exacerbate, fash, fret, frump, goad, huff, irk, needle, nettle, peeve, rile, terrify, wear on), стискати (astringe, clasp, constrict, contract, cramp, jam, pinch, straiten, strangulate, throttle, tighten), стиснення (grip, pinch, pressing, shrinkage, squeeze, wring), ущипнути (tweak), утекти (break out, bunk, escape, evade, make away, mizzle, pull it, run off, shank, whip away), укус (bite, piercer, snack, sting), зупиняти (arrest, bar, cease, check, damp, deter, halt, hold, hold up, pull up, stanch, staunch, stop, withhold), різкий холодний вітер, схопити (bag, capture, grip, gripe, nobble, reach at, take hold, whip away, yank), щипок (pinch), щипати (pinch), чарочка спиртного (nipperkin), шпилька (barb, pin, preen, tenon, wisecrack), ковток спиртного (bracer, caulker, nipperkin), відрізати (amputate, cut away, cut off, disbranch, snap out, snip, snip off), украсти (cop, filch, nab, nobble, pilfer, snaffle). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tê cóng, cơn giá rét cắt da cắt thịt sự thui chột, cái véo (pinch, tweak), cái mỏ cặp, cái kẹp sự tê buốt, cái kẹp (clamp, holdfast, pinch), cái cấu, cái cắn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle High German | 1100-1500 | nipen. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nip": nipa, nipas, nipped, nipper, nippers, nippier, nippiest, nippily, nippiness, nippinesses, nipping, nippingly, nipple, nippled, nipples, nippy, nips. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "nip": catnip, genip, parsnip, pogonip, snip, turnip. (additional references) | |
Words containing "nip": catnips, conniption, conniptions, countersniper, countersnipers, gallinipper, gallinippers, genipap, genipaps, genips, guttersnipe, guttersnipes, guttersnipish, juniper, junipers, maniple, maniples, manipulabilities, manipulability, manipulable, manipular, manipulatable, manipulate, manipulated, manipulates, manipulating, manipulation, manipulations, manipulative, manipulatively, manipulativeness, manipulativenesses, manipulator, manipulators, manipulatory, micromanipulation, micromanipulations, micromanipulator, micromanipulators, minipark, miniparks, omnipotence, omnipotences, omnipotent, omnipotently, omnipotents, omnipresence, omnipresences, omnipresent, outmanipulate, outmanipulated. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nip" (pronounced ni"p) |
| 3 | n i" p | snip. |
| 2 | -i" p | blip, chip, clip, dip, drip, equip, flip, grip, gyp, hip, kip, lip, microchip, outstrip, Pip, quip, rip, scrip, ship, sip, skip, slip, strip, tip, trip, unzip, whip, Yip, zip. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pin. | |
| Words within the letters "i-n-p" | |
-1 letter: in, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-n-p" | |
+1 letter: nipa, nips, pain, pein, pian, pina, pine, ping, pink, pins, pint, piny, pion, pirn, pyin, snip, spin. | |
+2 letters: apian, aping, genip, gipon, inapt, inept, input, lapin, lipin, lupin, nipas, nippy, opine, oping, opsin, orpin, pains, paint, panic, patin, pavin, peins, pekin, penis, penni, piano, pians, piing, pinas, pinch, pined, pines, piney, pingo, pings, pinko, pinks, pinky, pinna, pinny, pinon, pinot, pinta, pinto, pints, pinup, pions, pirns, piton, plain, plink, poind, point, prink, print, prion, purin, pyins, repin, ripen, snipe, snips, spine, spins, spiny, unhip, unpin, unrip, unzip. | |
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