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Definition: Sip |
SipNoun1. A small drink. Verb1. Drink in sips. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sip" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | SIP Session Initiation Protocol. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Agriculture | Stewardship Incentives Program. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an IETF standard for setting up sessions between one or more clients. It is currently (2003) the leading protocol for Voice over IP, gradually replacing H.323 in this role.A goal for SIP was to provide a superset of the call processing functions and features present in the public switched telephone network (PSTN). As such, features that permit familiar telephone-like operations are present: dialing a number, causing a phone to ring, hearing ringback tones or a busy signal. Implementation and terminology are different; for example, SIP refers to a device being in an "alerting state" rather than "ringing."
SIP also implements many of the more advanced call processing features present in Signalling System 7 (SS7), though the two protocols themselves could hardly be more different.
Devices with the look, feel, and shape of a traditional telephone, but that use SIP and RTP for communications, are commercially available from several vendors. Some of these can use Enum to translate existing phone numbers to SIP addresses using DNS, so calls to other SIP users can bypass the telephone network, even though your service provider might normally act as a gateway to the PSTN network for traditional phone numbers (and charge you for it).
SIP uses the Session Description Protocol (SDP) to describe the media content of the session, e.g. what IP ports to use, the codec being used etc. In typical use, SIP "sessions" are simply packet streams of the Real Time Transport Protocol (RTP).
The first standard version (SIP 2.0) was defined in RFC 2543. The protocol was further clarified in RFC 3261, although many implementations are still using interim draft versions. Note that the version number remains 2.0.
Microsoft Windows Messenger uses SIP, implementing a SIP User Agent (end device). So are various softswitch implementations, e.g. by Nortel, Sonus and many more. Such devices are normally acting as a SIP proxy. Also, SIP requires firewalls to have knowledge about the SIP protocol in order to give the needed security. Many firewalls now incorporate SIP functionality, especially Cisco's, yet many do not, and it is relatively difficult to establish good SIP links between firewalls from different vendors. It is possible to add SIP capabilities to firewalls with thrid-party products.
A standard instant messaging protocol based on SIP, called SIMPLE, has been proposed and is under development.
In June, 2003, Apple Computer announced, and released in public beta, iChat AV, a new version of their AOL Instant Messenger client that supports audio and video chat through SIP.
External links
- Henning Schulzrinne's SIP page
- The SIP Forum page
- SIP Specification (RFC 3261)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Session Initiation Protocol."
| 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 |
SIP | English | Single In-Line Package | N/A |
SIP | Finnish | Kehittyneet algoritmit ja rakenteet puheen sekä kuvan käsittelyä varten | N/A |
SIP | Spanish | Suceso iniciador postulado | Nuclear Energy & Physics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: SipSynonym: nip (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup; potion, dram, draught, drench, swill; nip, sip, sup, gulp. |
Drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill, chugalug, tipple; (be drunken); empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle. | |
Smallness | Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sip |
| English words defined with "sip": Delibate ♦ Sipped, Sipping, Sipple. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sip": Enteral Nutrition ♦ Session Initiation Protocol, SIP Call. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sip": Sipple. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sip" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Maya (to make a mistake). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | If you guys know so much about women, how come you're here at like the Gas 'n' Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) Morgan took a sip and it's got his amoebas in it. (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) | |
Lyrics | Come over lets swallow and sip (Hey Ma; performing artist: Cam'ron) I take a sip of the juice I been drinking (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince) Have a massage, get a sip and then I'm ready (One Of Those Days; performing artist: Whitney Houston; writing credit: Kevin Briggs, Patrice Stewart, Dwight Reynolds, Ernest Isley, Marvin Isley, Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley, Christopher Jasper, Warren Zevon & David Lindell) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Play | Caption |
| Lap; drink; lapping; water; refreshment; dog; canine; pet; sip; lick; sipping; cool off. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Denis Diderot | We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Sip water or a sugarless drink during meals. (references) | |
Carry a water bottle with you to sip from often. (references) | ||
Have a sip of water every few minutes to help you swallow and talk more easily. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | America's ripe with slobs who won't drink any wine unless it's so sweet, every time they take a sip they look up to see if the Kool-aid man is crashing through the wall. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Sip" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.70% of the time. "Sip" is used about 348 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) | 72.7% | 253 | 18,652 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 15.52% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10.92% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 348 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Switzerland | Societe Genevoise d'Instruments de Physique SA - SIP |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "sip": take a sip. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sip": sip-well. | |
| 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 |
sip | 456 | phone service sip | 5 |
sip phone | 38 | perl sip | 5 |
home sip | 25 | analyzer sip | 4 |
business communication enabled ip pbx sip total | 21 | building sip | 4 |
sip and protocol | 18 | phone sip wireless | 4 |
sip surf | 16 | scooter sip | 4 |
sip panel | 16 | sip enterprise | 3 |
construction sip | 13 | resistor sip | 3 |
sip server | 11 | sip vera | 3 |
sip code | 9 | institute sip web | 3 |
7 sip teen | 9 | h323 sip | 3 |
sip win | 8 | sip stack | 3 |
sip t | 8 | conferencing sip software video | 3 |
sip session initiation protocol | 7 | proxy server sip | 3 |
home panel sip | 7 | simulator sip | 3 |
sip testing | 6 | n sip surf | 3 |
sip softphone | 6 | construction panel sip | 3 |
sip proxy | 6 | car gas sip that | 3 |
sip voip | 6 | h.323 sip | 3 |
sip gateway | 5 | nylim.com sip | 3 |
client sip | 5 | sip puff | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "sip"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | hurbë, gllabërim (drink, drop, gulp, mouthful, swallow, swallowing up, take over), gllënjkë (craving, drachm, draft, drain, dram, draught, drink, drop, gulp, longing, mouthful, nip, peg, pull, smack, sup, swallow, swig, thirst, traction). (various references) | |
Arabic | أرشف (sup), رشفة (nip, sup), رشف (squelch, sucking, suction). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сърбам (slurp, sup), сръбвам (dram, pull at), глътка (drachm, drag, drain, dram, draught, drink, drop, gulp, lap, mouthful, peg, pharynx, potion, pull, shot, sup, swallow, taste), отпивам (take a sip), пийвам (dram, partake, refresh, take a drink). (various references) | |
Chinese | (suck), 啜飲 , 啜 (drink, suck, taste), 啐 (spit). (various references) | |
Czech | srkat (lapp), malý doušek. (various references) | |
Dutch | slurpen (absorb), resorberen (absorb), opslorpen (absorb). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sorbi (absorb). (various references) | |
Faeroese | súgva upp (absorb), drekka í seg (absorb). (various references) | |
Farsi | مزمزه کردن , مزمزه (Assay, Gust), چشیدن (Assay, Gust, Palate, Taste), چشش , خرده خرده نوشی , خردخرداشامیدن , جرعه (Godown, Gulp, Potion, Quaff, Shot, Swig). (various references) | |
Finnish | ryyppäistä (toss off), imeä (absorb, suck). (various references) | |
French | absorber (siphon). (various references) | |
German | schlürfen (absorb, quaff, savor, savour, slurp, sup, to sip, to slurp). (various references) | |
Greek | σιγοπίνω. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לל'ום (gulp, nip, quaff), ל'מוע (gulp, quaff, swallow), ל'מוא (gulp, swallow up), ל'מא (swallow up), ל'ימ" (dram, draught, nip, nourishment, sipping, swallow, taste, tasting). (various references) | |
Hungarian | korty (draught, godown, gulp, lap, nip, potion, pull, sup, swig, swill, tiff), hörpintés. (various references) | |
Indonesian | meneguk (sup), isapan. (various references) | |
Italian | sorso (draught, gulp, swallow). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 一飲み (bite, easy prey, mouthful, swallow). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひとのみ (bite, drinking in one gulp, easy prey, mouthful, swallow). (various references) | |
Korean | 모금. (various references) | |
Manx | goaill bolgum jeh, bolgum (dram, draught, mouthful, sup, swallow). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sorvo, sorver (absorb, aspirate, engulf, swallow up), pequeno trago (sup), pequeno gole, absorver (absorb, absorbing, adsorb, assimilate, drink, engorge, engross, imbibe, impregnate, occlude, occupy, soak, soak up, swallow). (various references) | |
Romanian | sorbiturã (draught, gulp, nip, rouse, snack, sup), sorbi (absorb, devour, drain, drink, drink in, imbibe, quaff, sup, swallow), gusta (enjoy, experience, feel, relish, taste, try, undergo), gurã (aperture, armful, Buss, chops, entrance, gab, gossip, influx, issue, jaw, kisser, lip, lips, mouth, mouthful, muzzle, orifice, pestering, plug, row, scolding, speech, spout, squabble, vent), gât (gorge, journal, neck, pull, ravine, scrag, spout, swallow, throat), duşcã (drain, draught, drink, drop, gulp, plug, snack, swallow, thimbleful), cioc (bang, beak, bill, Buss, click-clack, click-click, goatee, knock, mouth, nib, nose, nozzle, pecker, rostrum, snout, spout, tuft), bea (bib, booze, carouse, consume, drink, drink to excess, finish, have a drink, imbibe, swig, take, take up), înghiţiturã (drain, dram, draught, drink, go, gulp, pull, sup, swallow, swig). (various references) | |
Russian | глоток (drain, draught, drink, drop, gulp, mouthful, nip, potation, suck, sup, swallow, swig). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | srkati (lap, lap up, sup), srkanje, pijuckati, pijuckanje, gutljajčić, gutljaj (dram, drink, gulp, nip, swallow, swig, toothful). (various references) | |
Spanish | sorbo (gulp, sniffle, suck, taste), sorber (slurp, suck, suck in, sup, sup up). (various references) | |
Swedish | suga (suck), läppja på, läppja. (various references) | |
Thai | จิบ. (various references) | |
Turkish | yudumlamak (nip, sup), yudumlama, yudum yudum içmek (sup, sup off, sup out), yudum (drachm, dram, draught, gulp, nip, suck, sup, swallow), bir yudum (dash, snifter, swig, tot), azar azar içmek, çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gerinmek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ковток (draught, drink, gulp, mouthful, potation, pull, swallow, tasting), пробувати (assay, attempt, nibble, offer, prove, sample, try), попивати (swig). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhắp, hớp (draught, sup, thimbleful), ít (dash, little, scant, scanty, shoestring). (various references) | |
Welsh | sipian (suck, sup), llymeitian (bib, tipple), llymaid (drin). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | gusta, gustabit, gustabunt, gustans, gustare, gustaret, gustassent, gustasset, gustastis, gustata, gustate, gustatum, gustaturos, gustaverim, gustaveris, gustavero, gustaverunt, gustavi, gustavit, liba, libabant, libabitis, libabunt, libamus, libandum, libane, libans, libant, libantes, libare, libatis, libatoria, libaverint, libaverunt, libavit, libemus, libent, liber, libere, liberis, libet. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sip": sipe, siped, sipes, siphon, siphonal, siphoned, siphonic, siphoning, siphonophore, siphonophores, siphonostele, siphonosteles, siphons, siping, sipped, sipper, sippers, sippet, sippets, sipping, sips. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sip": gossip. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sip": basipetal, basipetally, desipramine, desipramines, dissipate, dissipated, dissipatedly, dissipatedness, dissipatednesses, dissipater, dissipaters, dissipates, dissipating, dissipation, dissipations, dissipative, erysipelas, erysipelases, fissiparous, fissiparousness, fissiparousnesses, fissiped, fissipeds, gossiped, gossiper, gossipers, gossiping, gossipmonger, gossipmongers, gossipped, gossipping, gossipries, gossipry, gossips, gossipy, insipid, insipidities, insipidity, insipidly, quasiparticle, quasiparticles, quasiperiodic, quasiperiodicities, quasiperiodicity. (additional references) | |
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"Sip" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cswip, eip, esap, esi, fspi, Ismp, Isop, isp, ispbx, ispe, ispo, ispy, oip, Osep, qip, saip, saph, sapo, sapp, saqp, scip, Scipo, sdio, seap, sepr, serp, shp, s'i, siep, Siepi, sij, simp, sinp, s'io, sipa, sipd, sipi, sipt, siq, siu, siv, siz, slp, sopp, spf, sph, spi, spia, spig, spip, spiq, spix, spiz, spp, sqi, stip, supu, svi, svp, swip, syep, syi, symp, syp, tsip. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sip" (pronounced si"p) |
| 2 | -i" p | blip, chip, clip, dip, drip, equip, flip, grip, gyp, hip, kip, lip, microchip, nip, outstrip, Pip, quip, rip, scrip, ship, skip, slip, snip, strip, tip, trip, unzip, whip, Yip, zip. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pis, psi. | |
| Words within the letters "i-p-s" | |
-1 letter: is, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-p-s" | |
+1 letter: dips, gips, hips, imps, kips, lips, lisp, nips, phis, pias, pics, pies, pigs, pins, pips, pish, piso, piss, pits, pois, psis, rips, ship, simp, sipe, sips, skip, slip, snip, spic, spik, spin, spit, spiv, tips, wisp, yips, zips. | |
+2 letters: aphis, apish, apsis, aspic, aspis, blips, chips, clips, crisp, dipso, drips, epics, flips, gimps, gipsy, grips, impis, kepis, lapis, limps, lisps, nipas, opsin, padis, paiks, pails, pains, pairs, paisa, paise, paris, pavis, peins, peise, penis, peris, pians, picas, picks, piers, pikas, pikes, pikis, piles, pilis, pills, pilus, pimas, pimps, pinas, pines, pings, pinks, pints, pions, pious, pipes, pirns, pisco, pisos, piste, pitas, piths, pixes, plies, poise, polis, posit, pries, prigs, prims, prise, prism, priss, psoai, pubis, pulis, puris, pyins, pyxis, quips, ripes, sapid, scrip, sepia, sepic, ships, simps, siped, sipes, sirup, situp, skimp, skips, slipe, slips, slipt, snipe, snips, spahi, spail, spait, speil, speir, spica, spice, spick, spics, spicy, spied, spiel, spier, spies, spiff, spike, spiks, spiky, spile, spill, spilt, spine, spins, spiny, spire, spirt, spiry, spite, spits, spitz, spivs, split, spoil, sprig, sprit, stipe, stirp, strip, swipe, tapis, tipis, tipsy, topis, trips, whips, wimps, wipes, wisps, wispy, yipes. | |
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