transcription, транскрипция: [ lɪp ]
( lips)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Your lips are the two outer parts of the edge of your mouth.
Wade stuck the cigarette between his lips.
N-COUNT : usu pl , oft poss N
2.
The lip of something such as a container or a high area of land is its edge.
...the lip of the jug.
...the lip of Mount Etna’s smouldering crater.
= rim
N-COUNT : usu with supp , oft N of n
3.
If you lick your lips , you move your tongue across your lips as you think about or taste something pleasant.
They licked their lips in anticipation...
We swallowed the chocolates in one gulp, licking our lips.
PHRASE : V inflects