SIP (sipped, sipping)

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Irregular inflected forms: sipped    , sipping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does sip mean? 

• SIP (noun)
  The noun SIP has 1 sense:

1. a small drink

  Familiarity information: SIP used as a noun is very rare.

• SIP (verb)
  The verb SIP has 1 sense:

1. drink in sips

  Familiarity information: SIP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small drink

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

deglutition; drink; swallow (the act of swallowing)

Derivation:

sip (drink in sips)

• SIP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they sip    ... he / she / it sips   
Past simple: sipped   
Past participle: sipped   
-ing form: sipping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Drink in sips

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Context example:

She was sipping her tea

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

drink; imbibe (take in liquids)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

sip (a small drink)

sipper (a drinker who sips)

 Context examples 

Out on the broad verandas of the hotel, men and women, in cool white, sipped iced drinks and kept their circulation down.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mr. Chillip shook his head, stirred his negus, and sipped it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The breakfast was a success, and we sat about the fire much longer than enterprising explorers should have done, sipping the hot black coffee and talking over our situation.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And indeed to watch him dallying with a little gobbet of bread, or sipping his cup of thrice-watered wine, is enough to make a man feel shame at his own hunger.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You can try: • Breathing into a paper bag • Drinking or sipping a glass of cold water • Holding your breath

(Hiccups, NIH)

But it is a "gentle giant," say researchers, because it looks like it has been sitting quietly over billions of years, possibly sipping hydrogen from the filamentary structure of intergalactic space.

(Hubble Surveys Gigantic Galaxy, NASA)

“I could see them sipping on the droplets oozing from the mycelium,” he said.

(Mushroom Extract Could Help Save Bees from Virus, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A stealthy glance now and then refreshed her like sips of fresh water after a dusty walk, for the sidelong peeps showed her several propitious omens.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then Sherlock Holmes cocked his eye at me, leaning back on the cushions with a pleased and yet critical face, like a connoisseur who has just taken his first sip of a comet vintage.

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

And then he would have changed the subject, and sipped his coffee in peace over domestic matters of a calmer hue; but Mr. Yates, without discernment to catch Sir Thomas's meaning, or diffidence, or delicacy, or discretion enough to allow him to lead the discourse while he mingled among the others with the least obtrusiveness himself, would keep him on the topic of the theatre, would torment him with questions and remarks relative to it, and finally would make him hear the whole history of his disappointment at Ecclesford.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)