Nip

  

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Nip

Definition: Nip

Nip

Noun

1. 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.

Verb

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definition: Nip

DomainDefinition

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.

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Specialty Definition: Nip

(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."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: 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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

NIP

DutchNationaal Indicatief ProgrammaEconomics

NIP

EnglishNetwork intelligence platformN/A

NIP

PortugueseNúmero de Identificação PessoalComputing, Finance

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Nip

Synonyms: 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)

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Synonyms within Context: Nip

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Nip

English words defined with "nip": Friction drop hammerNipped, NiptSneap. (references)
Specialty definitions using "nip": choke feedingextensible paperlinear loadNIP CHEESE, Number Nip, NYPquetsch. (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).

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Modern Usage: Nip

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Nip

DomainTitle

Books

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • The Foam Book Video- Nip and Tuck Method: A Step by Step Guide to Building Polyfoam Puppets (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Nip

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Nip

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & 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.

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Use in Literature: Nip

TitleAuthorQuote

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Nip

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Nip

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)52.33%13527,360
Noun (singular)24.03%6242,755
Lexical Verb (base form)23.64%6143,149
                    Total100.00%258N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Nip

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
NipLast name13069,638
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Nip

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nip

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Nip

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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Nip

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Middle High German1100-1500

nipen. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Nip

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).

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Rhyming with "Nip"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "nip" (pronounced ni"p)
3n i" psnip.
2-i" pblip, 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.

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Anagrams: Nip

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Names: Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Abbreviations
17. Acronyms
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Bibliography


  

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