(~s, ~ping, ~ped)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
The ~ of something long and narrow is the end of it.
The sleeves covered his hands to the ~s of his fingers...
She poked and shifted things with the ~ of her walking stick...
N-COUNT: oft N of n
2.
If you ~ an object or part of your body or if it ~s, it moves into a sloping position with one end or side higher than the other.
He leaned away from her, and she had to ~ her head back to see him...
A young boy is standing on a stool, reaching for a cookie jar, and the stool is about to ~...
VERB: V n adv/prep, V
3.
If you ~ something somewhere, you pour it there.
Tip the vegetables into a bowl...
Tip away the salt and wipe the pan.
VERB: V n prep, V n with adv
4.
To ~ rubbish means to get rid of it by leaving it somewhere. (BRIT; in AM, use dump )
...the costs of ~ping rubbish in landfills...
How do you stop people ~ping?...
We live in a street off Soho Road and there’s rubbish ~ped everywhere.
VERB: V n, V, V-ed
5.
A ~ is a place where rubbish is left. (BRIT; in AM, use garbage dump )
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6.
If you describe a place as a ~, you mean it is very untidy. (BRIT INFORMAL)
The flat is an absolute ~.
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7.
If you ~ someone such as a waiter in a restaurant, you give them some money in order to thank them for their services.
Do you really think it’s customary to ~ the waiters?...
She ~ped the barmen 10 dollars and bought drinks all round.
VERB: V n, V n amount
~ping
A 10 percent service charge is added in lieu of ~ping.
N-UNCOUNT
8.
If you give a ~ to someone such as a waiter in a restaurant, you give them some money to thank them for their services.
I gave the barber a ~...
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9.
A ~ is a useful piece of advice.
It shows how to prepare a CV, and gives ~s on applying for jobs.
N-COUNT: oft N on/for -ing/n
10.
If a person is ~ped to do something or is ~ped for success at something, experts or journalists believe that they will do that thing or achieve that success. (BRIT)
He is ~ped to be the country’s next foreign minister...
He was widely ~ped for success.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed to-inf, be V-ed for n
11.
Someone’s ~ for a race or competition is their advice on its likely result, especially to someone who wants to bet money on the result.
United are still my ~ for the Title.
N-COUNT: oft N for n
12.
If you say that a problem is the ~ of the iceberg, you mean that it is one small part of a much larger problem.
Unless we’re all a lot more careful, the people who have died so far will be just the ~ of the iceberg.
PHRASE: v-link PHR
13.
If something ~s the scales or ~s the balance, it gives someone a slight advantage.
Today’s slightly shorter race could well help to ~ the scales in his favour...
PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR prep
14.
If a comment or question is on the ~ of your tongue, you really want to say it or ask it, but you decide not to say it.
It was on the ~ of Mahoney’s tongue to say the boss was out...
PHRASE: v-link PHR