different between overturn vs flip

English

Etymology

From Middle English overturnen, equivalent to over- +? turn. Compare also Middle English overterven (“to overturn”), see terve.

Verb

overturn (third-person singular simple present overturns, present participle overturning, simple past and past participle overturned)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To turn over, capsize or upset.
2. (transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
3. (law, transitive) To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
4. (transitive) To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.

Translations

Noun

overturn (plural overturns)

1. A turning over or upside-down; inversion.
2. The overturning or overthrow of some institution or state of affairs; ruin.

Anagrams

• turn over, turnover

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

Alteration of earlier fillip, from Middle English filippen (“to make a signal or sound with thumb and right forefinger, snap the fingers”), an attenuated variation of flappen (“to flap, clap, slap, strike”). Cognate with Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”).

Noun

flip (plural flips)

1. A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.

   We'll decide this on a flip of a coin.

   The diver did a couple of flips before landing in the pool.

2. A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
3. (US, slang) A slingshot.
   • 1986, George Scarbrough, A summer ago (page 123)

     He loaded his flip and took careful aim at what he considered to be Emily's most vulnerable spot […]

4. A hairstyle popular among boys in the 1960s–70s and 2000s–10s, in which the hair goes halfway down the ears, at which point it sticks out

   Justin Bieber and Zac Efron are among the celebrities who wore a flip.

5. (informal) The purchase of an asset (usually a house) which is then improved and sold quickly for profit.
   • 2007, Rick Villani, Clay Davis, Gary Keller, Flip: How to Find, Fix, and Sell Houses for Profit (page viii)

     What they bring to the table is hard-won brass-tacks knowledge from over fifteen years of personal investing as well as riding shotgun on over 1,000 flips with their clients.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

flip (third-person singular simple present flips, present participle flipping, simple past and past participle flipped)

1. (transitive) To throw so as to turn over.

   Synonyms: turn, turn over
2. (transitive) To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.

   Synonym: toss

3. (transitive, US politics) To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections.

4. (intransitive, US) To turn state's evidence; to agree to testify against one's co-conspirators in exchange for concessions from prosecutors.

5. (transitive, US) To induce someone to turn state's evidence; to get someone to agree to testify against their co-conspirators in exchange for concessions.

6. (intransitive, slang) To go berserk or crazy.

7. (transitive, informal) To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.
8. (transitive, computing) To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Apparently a euphemism for fuck.

Interjection

flip

1. (Britain, euphemistic) Used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.

Synonyms

• damn

Related terms

• flipping

Etymology 3

Clipping of flippant

Adjective

flip (comparative flipper, superlative flippest)

1. (Britain, informal) Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.

   I hate to be flip, but perhaps we could steal a Christmas tree.

2. Sarcastic.
3. (informal) Disrespectful, flippant.

   Don't get flip with me or I'll knock you into next Tuesday!

Synonyms

• (disrespectful): see Thesaurus:cheeky

Etymology 4

Compare English dialect flip (“nimble, flippant, also, a slight blow”).

Noun

flip (uncountable)

1. A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a "flip dog").
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.9:

     [H]e had provided vast quantities of strong beer, flip, rumbo, and burnt brandy, with plenty of Barbadoes water for the ladies […] .

   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 21:

     I frequently took of large potations, though not of champagne certainly, but port, strong ales, and punch, and when our funds were low as sometimes happened, hot flip […] .

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

flip

1. first-person singular present indicative of flippen
2. imperative of flippen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flip/

Noun

flip m (plural flips)

1. a type of alcoholic punch from Normandy, composed of cider and calvados
2. (gymnastics) backflip

Further reading

• “flip” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).