What does SIP mean?

Definitions for SIP
sɪpsip

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word SIP.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. sipverb

    a small drink

  2. sipverb

    drink in sips

    "She was sipping her tea"

Wiktionary

  1. sipnoun

    A small mouthful of drink

  2. sipverb

    To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time

  3. Etymology: From sippen, probably cognate with sipen, from sipian.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sipnoun

    A small draught; as much as the mouth will hold.

    Etymology: from the verb.

    Her face o’ fire
    With labour, and the thing she took to quench it
    She would to each one sip. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

    One sip of this
    Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight,
    Beyond the bliss of dreams. John Milton.

  2. To SIPverb

    Etymology: sipan , Saxon; sippen, Dutch.

    Soft yielding minds to water glide away,
    And sip with nymphs their elemental tea. Alexander Pope.

    Find out the peaceful hermitage;
    The hairy gown and mossy cell,
    Where I may sit and rightly spell
    Of ev’ry star that heav’n doth shew,
    And every herb that sips the dew. John Milton.

    The winged nation o’er the forest flies:
    Then stooping on the meads and leafy bow’rs,
    They skim the floods and sip the purple flow’rs. Dryden.

  3. To Sipverb

    To drink a small quantity.

    She rais’d it to her mouth with sober grace;
    Then sipping, offer’d to the next. John Dryden, Æn.

ChatGPT

  1. sip

    A sip is a small amount of liquid that is consumed by gently sucking it into the mouth, often used to refer to the act of drinking something in small quantities. It is also often associated with tasting or enjoying a drink slowly.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sipverb

    to drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea

  2. Sipverb

    to draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers

  3. Sipverb

    to taste the liquor of; to drink out of

  4. Sipverb

    to drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something

  5. Sipnoun

    the act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips

  6. Sipnoun

    a small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste

  7. Sipverb

    see Seep

  8. Etymology: [OE. sippen; akin to OD. sippen, and AS. span to sip, suck up, drink. See Sup, v. t.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sip

    sip, v.t. to sup or drink in small quantities: to draw into the mouth: to taste: to drink out of.—v.i. to drink in small quantities: to drink by the lips:—pr.p. sip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. sipped.—n. the taking of a liquor with the lips: a small draught.—n. Sip′per. [A.S. syppan (assumed), sipian, to soak. Related to súpan, to sup, taste.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SIP

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sip is ranked #78821 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Sip surname appeared 242 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Sip.

    57% or 138 total occurrences were White.
    25.2% or 61 total occurrences were Asian.
    13.6% or 33 total occurrences were Black.

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Anagrams for SIP »

  1. IPS

  2. IPs

  3. ISP

  4. pis

  5. PSI

  6. psi

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SIP in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SIP in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of SIP in a Sentence

  1. Lakshheish M Patel:

    Nowadays you might be getting a lot of emails requesting you to invest in Mutual Funds or SIP, ask them via email to not try to fool and disturb you else you will block them. These fraud cos also try to impress you by giving examples of few successful persons but they are all its agents

  2. Knute Rockne:

    Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

  3. Lakshheish M Patel:

    Whenever #Stockmarket or related hashtag news trending on twitter to show very optimistic picture of up going, it becomes clear that stock market will fall on that day. Shares and MFs SIP have burnt holes in investors pocket and came out worse than ever for investment purpose

  4. Lakshheish M Patel:

    Days are not far when we will see LOCK on brokerage firms offices as we are seeing dwindling business or almost closure at Mutual Fund Or SIP companies for ruthlessly cheating their clients only

  5. Jenn Greene:

    I don't think a stimulus is going to help me much, my rent is $ 2,200. A $ 1,200 check is just a tiny little drop that we have to sip slowly.

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