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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To drink in small quantities.
  2. v. To drink from in sips.
  3. v. To drink something in sips.
  4. n. The act of sipping.
  5. n. A small quantity of liquid sipped.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To drink little by little; take (a liquid) into the mouth in small quantities; imbibe a mouthful at a time.
  2. To take in gradually by some process analogous to drinking; receive or obtain by sucking, inhaling, absorbing, or the like.
  3. To drink from by sips.
  4. To take a sip or sips.
  5. n. The act of sipping, or drinking by small quantities, as a liquid.
  6. n. A very small draught; a taste (of a liquid).
  7. n. Drink; sup.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A small mouthful of drink
  2. v. transitive To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time
  3. v. Scotland, US, dated Alternative form of seep.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid.
  2. v. To draw into the mouth; to suck up.
  3. v. Poetic To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
  4. v. To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.
  5. n. The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
  6. n. A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. drink in sips
  2. n. a small drink

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English sippen, probably cognate with Middle English sipen ("to seep"), from Old English sipian ("to seep"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English sippen; see seuə-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. sup
  1. nurse
  1. drink

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. drink
  1. imbibe
  1. deglutition
  1. swallow

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. swig
  2. swallow
  3. gulp
  4. mouthful
  1. draught
  2. flask
  3. pint
  4. mug
  1. tumbler
  2. goblet
  3. beaker
  4. decanter
  1. spoonful
  2. keg
  3. pull
  4. drink
  1. nip
  2. cup
  3. dollop
  4. slug
  1. splash
  2. flagon

rhymes (40)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Chip
  2. Crip
  3. Flip
  4. Kip
  5. Nip
  6. Pip
  7. blip
  8. chip
  1. clip
  2. crip
  3. dip
  4. drip
  5. equip
  6. flip
  7. grip
  8. gyp
  1. hip
  2. kip
  3. lip
  4. microchip
  5. nip
  6. outstrip
  7. pip
  8. quip
  1. rip
  2. roundtrip
  3. scrip
  4. ship
  5. sipp
  6. skip
  7. slip
  8. snip
  1. strip
  2. tip
  3. trip
  4. trippe
  5. unzip
  6. whip
  7. yip
  8. zip

reverse dictionary (12)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. delibate
  2. tiff
  1. bib
  2. nip
  1. sipple
  2. sup
  1. chaser
  2. bibble
  1. drill
  2. sip
  1. sippet
  2. taste

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  1. monosyllable

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