different between tip vs compensation
tip
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /t?p/
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English tip, typ, tippe, probably from an unrecorded Old English *typpa, *typpe, from Proto-Germanic *tuppijô, *tuppij? (“tip”), diminutive of *tuppaz (“top”).
Noun
tip (plural tips)
- The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil. [From 15th c.]
- 1848, Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:
- When he woke up, about half an hour after, he called it to him again, but Dash only looked sheepish and wagged the tip of his tail.
- 1848, Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:
- A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration. [From 15th c.]
- (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
- chicken tips over rice, pork tips, marinated alligator tips
- 1998, Alan Morris, Between Earth and Sky (Guardians of the North book 4; ?ISBN:
- He dutifully speared a beef tip and chewed it with false gusto.
- A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
- A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
- Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”)
Synonyms
- (extreme end of something): extremity
Hyponyms
- (extreme end of something): tooltip
Translations
Verb
tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)
- (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of. [From 15th c.]
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act V:
- I thinke he thinkes vpon the sauage bull: / Tush, feare not man, wee'll tip thy hornes with gold, / And all Europa shall reioyce at thee [...].
- truncheon tipped with iron head
- The furry nations harbour-tipt with jet, / Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act V:
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Late Middle English tippen, possibly from North Germanic/Scandinavian (compare Swedish tippa (“to topple over”)), or a special use of Etymology 1.
Verb
tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)
- (ergative) (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn. [(transitive) From early 14th c.] [(intransitive) From earlier 16th c.]
- (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced. [From 17th c.]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two […]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- (transitive, slang, dated) To drink. [From 18th c.]
- (transitive) To dump (refuse). [From 19th c.]
- (US, transitive) To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor. [From 20th c.]
- 1993, DRS, “Gangsta Lean (This Is For My Homies)”:
- I tip my 40 to your memory.
- 1993, DRS, “Gangsta Lean (This Is For My Homies)”:
- (transitive) To deflect with one?s fingers, especially one?s fingertips.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
tip (plural tips)
- (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle. [From 17th c.]
- An act of tipping up or tilting. [From 19th c.]
- (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump. [From 19th c.]
- 1972 May 18, Jon Tinker, Must we waste rubbish?, New Scientist, page 389,
- As the tip slowly squashes under its own weight, bacteria rot away the organic matter, mainly anaerobically with the generation of methane.
- 2009, Donna Kelly, 'Don't dump on Hepburn's top tip', The Hepburn Advocate, Fairfax Digital
- When I was a kid I used to love going to the tip.
- 2009, Rother District Council, Rother District Council Website
- There are two rubbish tips in Rother.
- 2009, Beck Vass, 'Computer collectibles saved from the tip' The New Zealand Herald, Technology section, APN Holdings NZ Ltd
- Computer collectibles saved from the tip
- 1972 May 18, Jon Tinker, Must we waste rubbish?, New Scientist, page 389,
- (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
- (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
- (colloquial) A very untidy place. [From 20th c.]
- The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
- A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
Translations
Etymology 3
Of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Etymology 1 and cognate with Dutch tippen, German tippen, Swedish tippa.
Verb
tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)
- (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap. [From later 15th c.]
- 1708, John Partridge, Squire Bickerstaff Detected
- A third rogue tips me by the elbow.
- 1708, John Partridge, Squire Bickerstaff Detected
Noun
tip (plural tips)
- (now rare) A light blow or tap. [From later 16th c.]
Etymology 4
Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain origin; according to the OED, probably related to sense 1.
Verb
tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)
- To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service. [From early 18th c.]
- (thieves? slang) To give, pass. [From early 17th c.]
Derived terms
- tipper
- tipping
Translations
Noun
tip (plural tips)
- A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation. [From mid-18th c.]
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:
- A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam [...] had left for his work at five o'clock that morning.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:
Descendants
- ? Korean: ? (tip)
Translations
Synonyms
- See gratuity
Etymology 5
Probably from to tip (“give, pass”) or to tip (“tap”), or a combination of the two.
Noun
tip (plural tips)
- A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc. [From mid-19th c.]
- A piece of advice.
Synonyms
- hint
Derived terms
Descendants
- German: Tipp
Translations
Verb
tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)
- To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc. [From later 19th c.]
Derived terms
- tip off
Translations
Translations
Etymology 6
Noun
tip (plural tips)
- (African-American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
- (African-American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
References
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:tip.
Anagrams
- ITP, PIT, PTI, TPI, pit, tpi
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?tip/
- Rhymes: -ip
Adjective
tip (feminine tipa, masculine plural tips, feminine plural tipes)
- full, as in sated or satisfied (including to excess)
Noun
tip m (plural tips)
- excess (of food or drink)
Cebuano
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English tip.
Noun
tip
- tip (gratuity)
- tip; tip-off
Verb
tip
- to tip (give a small gratuity)
- to tip off (inform someone confidentially)
Etymology 2
Ellipsis for English tip sheet.
Noun
tip
- lottery tip sheet
Czech
Etymology
From English tip.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?t?p]
- Hyphenation: tip
- Rhymes: -?p
- Homophone: typ
Noun
tip m inan
- tip, guess
Declension
Derived terms
- tipnout
- tipovat
Further reading
- tip in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- tip in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?p/
- Hyphenation: tip
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch tip, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tuppijô, *tuppij? (“tip”), a diminutive of *tuppaz.
Noun
tip m (plural tippen, diminutive tipje n)
- tip, extreme end of something
- Synonyms: eind, einde, end, punt, uiteinde
Hyponyms
- piek
- top
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English tip.
Noun
tip m (plural tips, diminutive tipje n)
- tip, small amount of money left for a waiter, taxi driver, etc. as a token of appreciation
- Synonym: fooi
- tip, piece of good advice
- hint, tip
See also
- hint
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
tip
- first-person singular present indicative of tippen
- imperative of tippen
Anagrams
- pit
Romanian
Etymology
French type, Latin typus
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tip/
Noun
tip m (plural tipi, feminine equivalent tip?)
- guy
Declension
Noun
tip n (plural tipuri)
- prototype, model
- type, style
Declension
Synonyms
- prototip (1)
- fel (2)
Sakizaya
Noun
tip
- east
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (túpos, “mark, impression, type”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tî?p/
Noun
t?p m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- type
- (colloquial) person (usually male), guy, bloke, dude
Declension
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tí?p/
Noun
t?p m inan
- type
Inflection
Spanish
Etymology
From English tip
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tip/, [?t?ip]
Noun
tip m (plural tips)
- tip (advice)
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tip]
Noun
tip (definite accusative tipi, plural tipler)
- type
- (colloquial) strange or peculiar person
Declension
tip From the web:
- what type
- what tip to use for rosettes
- what tip to use for cupcakes
- what tip for rosettes
- what tipsy means
- what tippet to use for trout
- what tip for hairdresser
- what tip to use for roses
compensation
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French compensacion, from Latin compens?ti?nem, accusative singular of compens?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?mp?n?se???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
compensation (countable and uncountable, plural compensations)
- The act or principle of compensating.
- Synonym: restitution
- Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
- Synonyms: amends, remuneration, recompense
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
- The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations […] vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
- No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.
- (finance) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.
- Synonym: set-off
- A recompense or reward for service.
- Synonym: restitution
- (real estate) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
- The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems, the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.
- (neuroscience) The ability of one part of the brain to overfunction in order to take over the function of a damaged part (e.g. following a stroke).
- Coordinate term: degeneracy
Derived terms
Related terms
- compensate
Translations
Anagrams
- camponotines, companion set
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin comp?ns?ti?, comp?ns?ti?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.p??.sa.sj??/
Noun
compensation f (plural compensations)
- compensation
Related terms
- compenser
compensation From the web:
- what compensation mean
- what compensation are you seeking
- what compensation was given to surviving prisoners
- what compensation are you looking for
- what compensation is used for adp testing
- what compensation does the president receive
- what compensation range are you looking for
- what compensation are you seeking meaning
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