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Definition: Lip |
LipNoun1. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth. 2. An impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of your sass". 3. The top edge of a vessel. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lip" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
Etymology: Lip \Lip\ (l[i^]p), noun. [Old English lippe, Anglo-Saxon lippa; akin to Dutch lip, German lippe, lefze, Old High German lefs, Danish l[ae]be, Swedish l["a]pp, Latin labium, labrum. Compare to Labial.]. (references) |
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Bible | Lip besides its literal sense (Isa. 37:29, etc.), is used in the original (saphah) metaphorically for an edge or border, as of a cup (1 Kings 7:26), a garment (Ex. 28:32), a curtain (26:4), the sea (Gen. 22:17), the Jordan (2 Kings 2:13). To "open the lips" is to begin to speak (Job 11:5); to "refrain the lips" is to keep silence (Ps. 40:9; 1 Pet. 3:10). The "fruit of the lips" (Heb. 13:15) is praise, and the "calves of the lips" thank-offerings (Hos. 14:2). To "shoot out the lip" is to manifest scorn and defiance (Ps. 22:7). Many similar forms of expression are found in Scripture. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Food & Agriculture | A narrow strip of material, generally galvanised iron sheeting, for guiding the oleoresin from the face into the cup. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Either of the two fleshy, full-blooded margins of the mouth. (references) |
Literature | Lip (Anglo-Saxon, lippe, the lip.) To curl the lip. To express contempt or disgust with the mouth. To hang the lip. To drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt. Thus Helen explains why her brother Troilus is not abroad by saying, "He hangs the lip at something." (Act iii. 1.) "A foolish hanging of thy nether lip."- Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., ii. 4. To shoot out the lip. To show scorn. "All they that see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip; they shake the head..."- Psalm xxii. 7. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. The digging edge of a dredge bucket b. The cutting edge of a fixed-wing bit, such as the cutting edge on afishtail bit. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Half pipe looks like a mouth. Then, the top of the half pipe should be lip. Definition: One of the two edges of the mouth where the skin is delicate and rather red. Context: It's a top part of half pipe. Social Source: Snowboarders. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The mouth is the opening through which an animal takes in food. It is usually located in the head, but not always; the mouth of a planaria is in the middle of its belly.Most animals have a complete digestive system, with a mouth at one end and an anus at the other. Which end forms first in ontogeny is a criterion used to classify animals into protostome and deuterostome.
Some animals, such as the cnidarians and the planaria, have no anus. They expel waste through the mouth, or as do brachiopods, which have very efficient digestive systems, roll it around in the stomach until it's finished.
Some animals, such as the tapeworm, don't even have a mouth. The tapeworm lives inside the digestive system, so it doesn't need its own digestive system.
In many animals, the mouth has mouthparts to chew food, hold food, or inject poison. In arthropods, they are external modified legs; in gnathostome vertebrates, they are internal.
The horny structures covering the mouth of a bird compose its beak or bill.
Plain lips (larger) The human mouth is covered by an upper and lower lip. They play an important role in talking, facial expression, kissing, drinking (especially with a straw), oral sex, smoking. Infants are born with a sucking reflex, by which they instinctively know to suck for nourishment using their lips and jaw. Lips are often adorned with lipstick or lip gloss.
According to etiquette the mouth is kept closed during chewing.
See also Tongue, Teeth, Lip piercing.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mouth."
| 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 |
LIP | English | Litigant in Person | N/A |
LIP | French | Pneumonie interstitielle lymphoïde | Medicine |
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Synonyms: LipSynonyms: back talk (n), backtalk (n), brim (n), mouth (n), rim (n), sass (n), sassing (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: guttered (food & agriculture, mechanical engineering). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Blemish | Freckle, mole, macula, patch, blotch, birthmark; blobber lip, blubber lip; blain, maculation; scar, wem; pustule; whelk; excrescence, pimple; (protuberance). |
Cheerfulness | Keep a stiff upper lip. |
Contempt | Look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at; (unimportance); set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one;s fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, "damn with faint praise"; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas; laugh at; (be disrespectful). |
Convexity | Tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump; sugar loaf; (sharpness); bow; mamelon; molar; belly, corporation, pot belly, gut; withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange. |
Disappointment | Noun: disappointment; blighted hope, balk; blow; anticlimax; slip 'twixt cup and lip; nonfulfillment of one's hopes; sad disappointment, bitter disappointment; trick of fortune; afterclap; false expectation, vain expectation; miscalculation; fool's paradise; much cry and little wool. |
Edge | Noun: edge, verge, brink, brow, brim, margin, border, confine, skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth; jaws, chops, chaps, fauces; lip, muzzle. |
Error | Mistake; miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread; trip, stumble; (failure); botchery; (want of skill); slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip; slip of the pen; lapsus linguae, clerical error; bull; (absurdity); haplography. |
Failure | Noun: failure; nonsuccess, nonfulfillment; dead failure, successlessness; abortion, miscarriage; brutum fulmen; labor in vain; (inutility); no go; inefficacy; inefficaciousness; Adjective: vain attempt, ineffectual attempt, abortive attempt, abortive efforts; flash in the pan, "lame and impotent conclusion"; frustration; slip 'twixt cup and lip; (disappointment). |
Falsehood | Lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, "organized hypocrisy"; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery; charlatanism, charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum, bumcombe, flam; bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy; (bad faith); il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti. |
Flattery | Voice of the charmer, mouth honor; lip homage; euphemism; unctuousness; Adjective: |
Imbecility Folly | Folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, nugacity, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit; sophistry; giddiness; (inattention); eccentricity; extravagance; (absurdity); rashness. |
Impiety | Hypocrisy; (falsehood); pietism, cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence; misdevotion, formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness; adj; pharisaism, precisianism; sabbatism, sabbatarianism; odium theologicum, sacerdotalism; bigotry; (obstinacy), (prejudice); blue laws. |
Transientness | Adverb: temporarily; Adjective: pro tempore; for the moment, for a time; awhile, en passant, in transitu; in a short time; soon; (early); briefly; Adjective: at short notice; on the point of, on the eve of; in articulo; between cup and lip. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Is that clear or do I have to slip you my lip for a convincer (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett and Frank Capra. based on the story 'The Greatest Gift' by Philip Van Doren Stern.) Five in each ear, one through the nipple on my left breast, one through my right nostril, one through my left eyebrow, one in my lip, one in my clit and I wear a stud in my tongue (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) I swear I have never, ever had herpes on my lip. (Grosse Pointe; writing credit: Amy Engelberg; Wendy Engelberg) Lip gloss (Thank God It's Friday; writing credit: Armyan Bernstein) Short feisty fella, nervous and quick, got a messed-up lower lip. (True Grit; writing credit: Charles Portis; Marguerite Roberts) | |
Lyrics | I AIN'T GOT TIME FOR THE LIP (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah) That's not lip service (Head Over Feet; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) Or tell your brother Cliff whose fist can tell my lip, ("Achy Breaky Heart"; performing artist: Billy Ray Cyrus) Trickin for twenties young dummy and quick wit her lip (Get Away; performing artist: Jade) Baby, hair pumping, lip gloss is shining (Around the Way Girl; performing artist: L.L. Cool J) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lip Service (1974) The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921) Off the Lip (2000) Lip Service (1999) Do si lip yan (1989) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Erythema multiforme, lip. Credit: CDC. |  | Herpes simplex lesion of lower lip, second day after onset. HSV, cold sore. Credit: CDC. |
 | A patient with a typical syphilitic chancre located on lower lip. A chancre is a small, painless red ulcer that develops during primary syphilis. Primary syphilis is characterized by one or more chancres after inoculation with T. pallidum bacteria. Credit: CDC. |  | Mucous patches form during the breakdown of mucous membranes, seen here on the inside the lower lip. During the secondary stage of syphilis, mucous patches can also develop inside the mouth, vulva, and vagina. Credit: CDC. |
 | Water rushes over the lip of the pools. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | The lip of the dam before restoration. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Workers begin to take the cement lip off the top of the dam. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Stands beside his plane, a General Motors FM-2 "Wildcat" fighter, on board USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73), 1 August 1944. Note pinup art and nickname "Smokey's Lucky Witch" adorning the engine cowling; what appears to be a Composite Squadron Ten (VC-10) insignia below the cockpit windshield; plane numbers ("27") in white on the wing leading edge and and in black under the lip of the cowling; and Ensign's Bennett's flight gear and .45 caliber M1911A1 pistol carried in a shoulder holster. Credit: NAVY. |
 | The well known "slip twixt cup and lip". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Miguela, kneeling still, put it to her lip. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Lip print" by Vi Xs Commentary: "Lip print." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Bret Harte | Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again. |
William Shakespeare | That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | The young lady bit her lip. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His lip contracted with a strange expression, which seemed severe and yet which was humble |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | His upper lip was long, and since his teeth protruded, the lips stretched to cover them, for this man kept his lips closed |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Keep your lips moist with lip salves. (references) | |
Use a lip balm with a sun protection factor. (references) | ||
Lip reading or speech reading is another option. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Sure, we pay lip service to cooperation and altruism, but in the real world, those values are ignored like crunchy peanut butter at a nursing home. |
Julie Andrews | The you lip sync it later. You prerecord it hoping that you're going to get it right to look as though you really are. You roughly know thanks to the prework where you'll be and what you'll be doing. |
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| "Lip" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.52% of the time. "Lip" is used about 1,368 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 97.52% | 1,334 | 5,953 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.02% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.58% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.44% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (common) | 0.44% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,368 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "lip". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Shapham | N/A | Biblical | Their lip |
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| South Korea | Sam Lip Industrial |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "lip": Alabama lip fern ♦ between cup and lip ♦ Blobber lip ♦ blubber lip ♦ blue lip ♦ bottom lip ♦ Cleft Lip ♦ curl of the lip ♦ curl one's lip ♦ hairy lip fern ♦ keep a stiff upper lip ♦ lip balm ♦ Lip bit ♦ Lip comfort ♦ Lip comforter ♦ lip consonant ♦ lip feature ♦ lip fern ♦ lip gloss ♦ Lip labor ♦ Lip Neoplasms ♦ lip off ♦ lip reader ♦ Lip reading ♦ lip rouge ♦ Lip salve ♦ lip service ♦ lip sync ♦ lip synch ♦ lip synchronisation ♦ lip synchronization ♦ Lip wisdom ♦ Lip work ♦ lower lip ♦ pay lip service to ♦ slip 'twixt cup and lip ♦ smooth lip fern ♦ southwestern lip fern ♦ stage I lip and oral cavity cancer ♦ stage II lip and oral cavity cancer ♦ stage III lip and oral cavity cancer ♦ stage IV lip and oral cavity cancer ♦ stiff upper lip ♦ swollen lip ♦ the nether lip ♦ the upper lip ♦ there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip ♦ To keep a stiff upper lip ♦ To make a lip ♦ To shoot out the lip ♦ upper lip ♦ wooly lip fern. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lip": lip-biting, lip-cup, lip-curling, lip-deep, lip-first, lip-flesh, lip-gloss, lip-glossed, lip-hold, lip-labor, lip-labour, lip-language, lip-licking, lip-line, lip-lock, Lip-o-sections, lip-patterns, lip-read, lip-readers, lip-reading, lip-reads, lip-removal, lip-salve, lip-service, lip-smackin, lip-smacking, lip-spoken, lip-stick, lip-sync, lip-synch, lip-synched, lip-synching, lip-to-lip. | |
Ending with "lip": stiff-upper-lip. | |
Containing "lip": lower-lip-to-top-teeth. | |
| 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 |
lip | 2,947 | hot lip | 133 |
the flaming lip | 975 | two lip shoes | 131 |
pussy lip | 712 | lip service clothing | 125 |
angeliques soft lip | 615 | lip enhancement | 113 |
lip ink | 503 | lip ring | 112 |
lip gloss | 431 | huge pussy lip | 109 |
lip service | 296 | sweet lip | 102 |
lip piercing | 279 | cunt lip | 101 |
big pussy lip | 271 | swollen lip | 95 |
lip balm | 241 | large pussy lip | 93 |
big lip | 231 | chapped lip | 92 |
fat lip | 227 | cleft lip and palate | 83 |
lip picture | 196 | sexy lip | 82 |
flaming lip lyrics | 179 | pink lip | 82 |
two lip teen | 150 | red lip | 73 |
lip augmentation | 145 | soft lip | 72 |
lip cancer | 143 | lip venom | 65 |
two lip | 137 | kiss lip | 65 |
cleft lip | 136 | wet lip | 63 |
lip plumper | 135 | read my lip | 62 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "lip"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | buzë (bank, border, brim, curb, edge, hem, margin, rim, ring, selvage, Selvedge, skirt, verge, welt). (various references) | |
Arabic | كلام وقح, وقاحة (audacity, boldness, cheek, effrontery, face, flippancy, forwardness, gall, hardihood, immodesty, impertinence, impolicy, impudence, insolence, manginess, nastiness, naughtiness, nerve, perkiness, pertness, presumption, sauce, sauciness), حافة (board, border, brim, brink, edge, fringe, hem, ledge, margin, plinth, rim, verge), شفة (flange). (various references) | |
Aymara | ispillo. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | mootóónis. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | устна, устен (nuncupative, oral, oscular, spoken, viva voce), целувам (caress, kiss, salute), неискрен (disingenuous, false, feigned, hollow, hollow-hearted, insincere, lip-deep, mealy mouthed, oblique, phoney, pretended, synthetic, tortuous), нахалство (arrogance, cheek, contumely, crust, face, front, gall, impertinence, insolence, mouth, neck, nerve, presumption, sauciness, temerity, uppishness), мундщук (cannon bit, embouchure, mouthpiece, neck, nozzle, snout), лабиален (labial, round), промълвявам, плискам се о (lave), докосвам устни до. (various references) | |
Catalan | llavi. (various references) | |
Chinese | 嘴唇 . (various references) | |
Cornish | gwéus. (various references) | |
Czech | ret, pysk. (various references) | |
Danish | læbe. (various references) | |
Dutch | lip. (various references) | |
Esperanto | lipo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | vørr. (various references) | |
Farsi | کنار (Apart, Away, Bank, Besides, Brim, Brink, By, Limit, List, Margin, Next, Rand, Recess, Shunt, Verge), لبی (Labial), لبه (Border, Brim, Edge, Hem, Ledge, Margin, Rand, Ridge, Rim, Verge, Wayside, Welt), لب (Bank, Brink, Cheek, Nucleus, Puss), سخن (Locution, Pronunciation, Redundancy, Speech, Utterance, Word, Yap), طاقت (Gut, Nerve, Patience, Stamina, Sufferance), بیان (Declaration, Diction, Explanation, Exposition, Expression, Locution, Pronunciation, Quotation, Recitation, Remark, Statement), بالب لمس کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | huuli (crack, quip, witticism). (various references) | |
French | lèvre (lip feature). (various references) | |
Frisian | lippe. (various references) | |
German | Lippe (chock, labium). (various references) | |
Greek | χείλι. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | buzë. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שפה (border, bordure, brim, edge, fringe, language, limit, margin, shore, tongue), דבור חצוף. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ajak. (various references) | |
Indonesian | bibir (edge, genital labia). (various references) | |
Irish | bruas. (various references) | |
Italian | labbro. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | リチウム爆弾 (car with 1000cc engine, lip cream, lip service, lipreading, lipstick, literacy, literal, literary, literature, lithium bomb, lithograph, Lithuania, litmus, litre, redisplay, reduce, rich, ridge, ripple, rocking motion, small-scale finance). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リップ . (various references) | |
Korean | 입술 (LIPS). (various references) | |
Malay | bibir. (various references) | |
Manx | meillagh (labial, reaper). (various references) | |
Maori | ngutu. (various references) | |
Maya | boox chi'. (various references) | |
Mohawk | ohsa. (various references) | |
Norwegian | leppe. (various references) | |
Papiamen | lep. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iplay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lábio. (various references) | |
Romanian | labial (labial), vorbe (cry, talk), spuse, sãruta (Buss, kiss, smack), rosti (breathe, deliver, enunciate, pass, pronounce, put up, say, sound, speak, spout, utter, voice), obrãznicie (audacity, blunder, brass, break, cheek, coolness, forwardness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, naughtiness, nerve, perkiness, pertness, sauce, trespass, unruliness), gurã (aperture, armful, Buss, chops, entrance, gab, gossip, influx, issue, jaw, kisser, lips, mouth, mouthful, muzzle, orifice, pestering, plug, row, scolding, sip, speech, spout, squabble, vent), buze, buzã (edge, rim), atinge cu buzele. (various references) | |
Romansch | lef. (various references) | |
Romany | oosh. (various references) | |
Russian | губа. (various references) | |
Scottish | sliop (a lip, blubber lip), oir (because that, border, brim, brink, edge, edging, for, fringe, rand, rim), bile (edge, rim). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | usni (oral, oscular), usna, rub (border, brim, brink, cant, edge, hem, rand, selvage, selvedge, shoulder, verge), poljubiti (buss, kiss, osculate, peck), izgovoriti (articulate, pronounce, say out, state), ivica (border, brim, brink, cant, edge, edging, flange, fringe, limb, marge, margin, pallet, rand, rim, verge), drskost (arrogance, audaciousness, brash, effrontery, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, nerve, petulance, presumption, temerity), dodirivati usnama. (various references) | |
Sicilian | labbru. (various references) | |
Spanish | labio (labium). (various references) | |
Swazi | ín-dzebé. (various references) | |
Swedish | läpp. (various references) | |
Tagalog | labì. (various references) | |
Thai | เอาริมฝีปากแตะ, เปล่งเสียงอย่างนุ่มนวล, พฤติกรรมหยาบคาย, ที่เกี่ยวกับริมฝีปาก, ริมฝีปาก (labium), ขอบ (edge, limb, rand, rim). (various references) | |
Turkish | dudak. (various references) | |
Turkmen | dodak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | цілувати (kiss), торкатися губами, край (area, border, brim, brink, edge, edging, end, list, margin, outskirts, rand, ridge, skirt, tail, verge), губний (labial), губа, нещирий (bad, disingenuous, false, insincere, tongue in cheek, underhand), мимрити (babble, dodder, gabble off, jabber, mutter, splatter), зухвалість (assuredness, audacity, barefacedness, chat, cheek, effrontery, forwardness, hardiness, immodesty, impertinence, neck, nerve, outrecuidance). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính kiên cường buồn thiu, sự láo xược sự không nao núng, sự không lay chuyển được, miệng vết lở miệng, môi miệng vết thương, giếng. (various references) | |
Welsh | min (brim, brink, edge), mant (mouth), gwefus, gwefl. (various references) | |
Zulu | uludebe, udebe. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | nundum, tun. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | labrum. (various references) |
| Irish | 1000-Modern | pus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 12, Verse 19 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ceilh alhqina katorqoi marturian martuV de tacuV glwssan ecei adikon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Labium veritatis firmum erit in perpetuum qui autem testis est repentinus concinnat linguam mendacii |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The lippe of truthe shal be fast in to withoute ende; who forsothe is a feerli witnesse, maketh a tunge of lesing. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | True lips are certain for ever, but a false tongue is only for a minute. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 12, Verse 19 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang ngabil sa kamatuoran pagalig-onon sa walay katapusan; Apan ang usa ka bakakong dila umalagi lamang. |
| Chinese | 口 吐 真 言 、 永 遠 堅 立 ． 舌 說 謊 話 、 只 存 片 時 。 |
| Croatian | Istinita usta traju dovijeka, a lažljiv jezik samo za èas. |
| Danish | Sanddru Læbe består for evigt, Løgnetunge et Øjeblik. |
| Dutch | Een waarachtige lip zal bevestigd worden in eeuwigheid; maar een valse tong is maar voor een ogenblik. |
| Finnish | Totuuden huulet pysyvät iäti, mutta valheen kieli vain tuokion. |
| French | La lèvre véridique est affermie pour toujours, Mais la langue fausse ne subsiste qu`un instant. |
| German | Wahrhaftiger Mund besteht ewiglich; aber die falsche Zunge besteht nicht lange. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Manti la pou yon ti tan. Men, verite la pou tout tan tout tan. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dusta akan terbongkar dalam sekejap mata, tapi kata-kata benar akan tetap sepanjang masa. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa lidah yang berkata benar itu akan dikekalkan selama-lamanya, tetapi lidah pembohong itu tahan hanya sekejap mata jua. |
| Italian | La bocca verace resta ferma per sempre, la lingua bugiarda per un istante solo. |
| Maori | ¶ Ka u tonu te ngutu pono a ake ake; mo naianei kau ia te arero teka. |
| Norwegian | Sannhets lebe blir fast for all tid, men falskhets tunge bare et øieblikk. |
| Rumanian | Buza care spune adevqrul este kntqritq pe vecie, dar limba mincinoasq nu stq deckt o clipq. - |
| Russian | хУФБ РТБЧДЙЧЩЕ ЧЕЮОП РТЕВЩЧБАФ, Б МЦЙЧЩК СЪЩЛ--ФПМШЛП ОБ НЗОПЧЕОЙЕ. |
| Swedish | Sannfärdiga läppar bestå evinnerligen, men en lögnaktig tunga allenast ett ögonblick. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lip": lipa, lipase, lipases, lipe, lipid, lipide, lipides, lipidic, lipids, lipin, lipins, lipless, liplike, lipocyte, lipocytes, lipogeneses, lipogenesis, lipoid, lipoidal, lipoids, lipolyses, lipolysis, lipolytic, lipoma, lipomas, lipomata, lipomatous, lipophilic, lipopolysaccharide, lipopolysaccharides, lipoprotein, lipoproteins, liposomal, liposome, liposomes, liposuction, liposuctions, lipotropic, lipotropin, lipotropins, lipped, lippen, lippened, lippening, lippens, lipper, lippered, lippering, lippers, lippier, lippiest. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "lip": antislip, blip, clip, coverslip, cowslip, fillip, flip, harelip, inclip, landslip, nonslip, overslip, oxlip, sideslip, slip, tulip, unclip, underlip. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lip": aliped, alipeds, aliphatic, apolipoprotein, apolipoproteins, blipped, blipping, blips, calipash, calipashes, calipee, calipees, caliper, calipered, calipering, calipers, caliph, caliphal, caliphate, caliphates, caliphs, callipee, callipees, calliper, callipered, callipering, callipers, callipygian, callipygous, cheliped, chelipeds, clipboard, clipboards, clipped, clipper, clippers, clipping, clippings, clips, clipsheet, clipsheets, clipt, coliphage, coliphages, coverslips, cowslips, cycloaliphatic, eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing. (additional references) | |
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"Lip" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alip, eldip, glip, ilp, Klip, lapo, Lapr, Lebp, leip, lewp, lgp, lic, Liepa, liii, lik, lio, Lipa, lipe, lipi, lipo, lipt, Lipu, liq, Lir, lirp, liu, liv, liw, lix, liy, liz, Llipi, llp, lmip, lni, lopf, lopp, lpi, lup, lupo, lxi, lyb, lyl, lyp, oip, qip. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lip" (pronounced li"p) |
| 3 | l i" p | blip, clip, flip, slip. |
| 2 | -i" p | chip, dip, drip, equip, grip, gyp, hip, kip, microchip, nip, outstrip, Pip, quip, rip, scrip, ship, sip, skip, snip, strip, tip, trip, unzip, whip, Yip, zip. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-p" | |
-1 letter: li, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-p" | |
+1 letter: blip, clip, flip, limp, lipa, lipe, lips, lisp, pail, pial, pile, pili, pill, pily, plie, puli, slip. | |
+2 letters: blimp, blips, clips, clipt, flips, impel, imply, lapin, lapis, limpa, limps, lipid, lipin, lippy, lisps, lupin, milpa, oxlip, pails, palpi, peril, phial, pibal, pical, picul, pilaf, pilar, pilau, pilaw, pilea, piled, pilei, piles, pilis, pills, pilot, pilus, pipal, pixel, plaid, plain, plait, plica, plied, plier, plies, plink, poilu, polio, polis, prill, pulik, pulis, pupil, slipe, slips, slipt, spail, speil, spiel, spile, spill, spilt, split, spoil, tulip, uplit. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Derived from 15. Names: Company Usage 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Abbreviations 22. Acronyms 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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