Word Finder - tip

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The tip of the external ear.

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A small earpiece or earplug.

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The part of an earbud that contours to the ear canal.

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The shape of the nozzle prevents the use of aftermarket eartips.

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• tip

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The removal of the tip of a cat's ear, done to indicate that the cat has been fixed.

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a cat with an eartip

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• eartipping

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The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.

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the tip of one's nose

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A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.

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a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.

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The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.

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(chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.

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chicken tips over rice, pork tips, marinated alligator tips

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A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.

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A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.

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To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.

After a silent prayer, I telephoned the tip line.

I remember because the tip was different from most; so detailed.

While we were sympathetic to dad, we decided after heated discussion simply tip what we learned.

Once again, a tip was involved.

The Internet has only touched the tip of the iceberg here.

You've made other tip calls, haven't you?

When you called in your tip, we came down on him like a shoe on a bug.

Is this a tip from mommy the clairvoyant?

She could have asked, but that might tip her hand.

They follow the tip and do their job.

With each tip we give there's further chance someone will start stringing them together.

Her boss said she was reasonable intelligent when we set her up as the main person answering your designated tip line.

She changed the decorating tip and wrote "Happy Birthday Dad!" on the top of the cake.

She also researched various tip lines and Internet sites that concentrated on missing children.

I know he'll bury any tip that comes near him!

It was your notes that Ben conveyed to the tip line.

After too much heated discussion, I agreed to give a less than specific tip saying I didn't believe the child was abducted.

I heard a recording of the Delaware tip and it struck me as really strange.

A special tip line was established.

How are the other people who answer the tip lines taking it?

Instead of using our usual tip line, we conveyed the information directly to Detroit where the abduction took place.

And the Dean also took the hint; for he always remembered to give the man a "tip" for his trouble.

We were tip toeing toward something impossible and it made me nervous.

She searched out other tip line numbers and the Warwick Police as well.

We would, as Betsy suggested, telephone the tip on our way back to New York.

Betsy spent hours on the computer, searching for results from our second tip but nothing was reported.

We conveyed the meager information to a national tip line, fearing it might be too little too late.

It was heart wrenching when sometimes our tip failed to bring about justice.

We researched tip lines in an effort to spread around our contacts.

Martha too was exasperated as she sought the most responsive tip line.

I was as nervous tonight as usual making the tip call.

It would be a difficult tip to convey.

He wants to run down the tip and thank the guy who's responsible.

We didn't let on to this guy, Jude Bryce, about the tip but he was a close neighbor and the parents suspected he might be involved so he was in our radar.

The announcement went on to describe what the young boy was wearing and listed a tip line phone number to call with information.

He had already returned by the time Martha called a national tip line.

The tip we offered must be the end of our involvement.

It came from Boston, a few hundred miles away; sort of like the tip you just made.

I explained my tip to the FBI and my follow up extended conversation with Agent Brennan.

We need a tip line that will guarantee what we say is taken seriously and acted upon with haste.

Our nailing Otto Rudman on your tip impressed the hell out of him.

Lady luck intervened when the director removed a twenty dollar bill from his wallet for a tip for the maid and Howie was able to record the bill number.

No one will see me and tip those who vow to stop my kind.

Betsy called in one tip from California on a business trip.

When we called in a tip, the recipient of our offering was located in a secure government-run facility in Omaha that promised total anonymity.

The actual tip sounds like someone is reading it and it's always worded in the same format.

There must be a lot of people answering a national tip line.

The long and bushy tail in the northern species has a white tip and a dark gland-patch near the root, but the backs of the ears are fawn-coloured.

There was even a thorn upon the tip of his nose and he looked so funny that Dorothy laughed when she saw him.

At the last post station before Otradnoe he gave the driver a three-ruble tip, and on arriving he ran breathlessly, like a boy, up the steps of his home.