PIP (pipped, pipping)

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Irregular inflected forms: pipped    , pipping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pip mean? 

• PIP (noun)
  The noun PIP has 5 senses:

1. a disease of poultry

2. a minor nonspecific ailment

3. a small hard seed found in some fruits

4. a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)

5. a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface

  Familiarity information: PIP used as a noun is common.

• PIP (verb)
  The verb PIP has 3 senses:

1. kill by firing a missile

2. hit with a missile from a weapon

3. defeat thoroughly

  Familiarity information: PIP used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disease of poultry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("pip" is a kind of...):

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A minor nonspecific ailment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("pip" is a kind of...):

ailment; complaint; ill (an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A small hard seed found in some fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pip" is a kind of...):

seed (a small hard fruit)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

pip; spot

Hypernyms ("pip" is a kind of...):

mark; marker; marking (a distinguishing symbol)

Holonyms ("pip" is a part of...):

playing card (one of a pack of cards that are used to play card games)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

blip; pip; radar target

Hypernyms ("pip" is a kind of...):

radar echo (an electronic signal that has been reflected back to the radar antenna; contains information about the location and distance of the reflecting object)

• PIP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pip    ... he / she / it pips   
Past simple: pipped   
Past participle: pipped   
-ing form: pipping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Kill by firing a missile

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

pip; shoot

Hypernyms (to "pip" is one way to...):

kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)

Verb group:

hit; pip; shoot (hit with a missile from a weapon)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pip"):

flight (shoot a bird in flight)

pick off (shoot one by one)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hit with a missile from a weapon

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

hit; pip; shoot

Hypernyms (to "pip" is one way to...):

injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

Verb group:

blast; shoot (fire a shot)

pip; shoot (kill by firing a missile)

hit; strike (make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pip"):

gun down (strike down or shoot down)

grass (shoot down, of birds)

kneecap (shoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warning)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Defeat thoroughly

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

mop up; pip; rack up; whip; worst

Context example:

He mopped up the floor with his opponents

Hypernyms (to "pip" is one way to...):

beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to pip his opponent

 Context examples 

There was nothing else save the five dried pips.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By my hilt, yes!” muttered Aylward; “she is yellow as a kite's claw, and would carry as many men as there are pips in a pomegranate.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Or, again, there was that most grotesque affair of the five orange pips, which led straight to a murderous conspiracy.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We did; and, Tedo, you know, I helped you in prosecuting (or persecuting) your tutor, whey-faced Mr. Vining—the parson in the pip, as we used to call him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he squeezed out the pips upon the table.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I give not the pip of an apple for king or for noble,” cried the serf passionately.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Next morning I had the pleasure of encountering him; left a bullet in one of his poor etiolated arms, feeble as the wing of a chicken in the pip, and then thought I had done with the whole crew.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried orange pips.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beyond the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)