whip

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To strike with repeated strokes, as with a strap or rod; lash.
2. v. To punish or chastise by repeated striking with a strap or rod; flog.
3. v. To afflict, castigate, or reprove severely: "For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure” ( Ralph Waldo Emerson).
4. v. To drive, force, or compel by flogging, lashing, or other means.
5. v. To strike or affect in a manner similar to whipping or lashing: Icy winds whipped my face.
6. v. To beat (cream or eggs, for example) into a froth or foam.
7. v. Informal To snatch, pull, or remove in a sudden manner: He whipped off his cap.
8. v. To sew with a loose overcast or overhand stitch.
9. v. To wrap or bind (a rope, for example) with twine to prevent unraveling or fraying.
10. v. Nautical To hoist by means of a rope passing through an overhead pulley.
11. v. Informal To defeat; outdo: Our team can whip your team.
12. v. To move in a sudden, quick manner; dart.
13. v. To move in a manner similar to a whip; thrash or snap about: Branches whipped against the windows.
14. n. An instrument, either a flexible rod or a flexible thong or lash attached to a handle, used for driving animals or administering corporal punishment.
15. n. A whipping or lashing motion or stroke; a whiplash.
16. n. A blow, wound, or cut made by or as if by whipping.
17. n. Something, such as a long radio antenna on a motor vehicle, that is similar to a whip in form or flexibility.
18. n. Sports Flexibility, as in the shaft of a golf club.
19. n. Sports A whipper-in.
20. n. A member of a legislative body, such as the U.S. Congress or the British Parliament, charged by his or her party with enforcing party discipline and ensuring attendance.
21. n. A call issued to party members in a lawmaking body to ensure attendance at a particular time.
22. n. A dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream, often with fruit or fruit flavoring: prune whip.
23. n. An arm on a windmill.
24. n. Nautical A hoist consisting of a single rope passing through an overhead pulley.
25. n. A ride in an amusement park, consisting of small cars that move in a rapid, whipping motion along an oval track.
26. whip in To keep together, as members of a political party or hounds in a pack.
27. whip up To arouse; excite: whipped up the mob; whip up enthusiasm.
28. whip up Informal To prepare quickly: whip up a light lunch.
29. idiom. whip into shape Informal To bring to a specified state or condition, vigorously and often forcefully.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. See the extract.
2. n. In pianoforte-making, the crosspiece at the top of an action-extension which bears and operates both the hammer-and the damper-action. Also called jack-whip. See the cut under pianoforte.
3. n. A light line used in marine life-saving apparatus, run as an endless circuit from the shore around a sheave on the vessel and back to the shore. The breeches-buoy is operated by such a whip.
4. n. One who operates a whip-hoisting or whip-conveying line.
5. To move suddenly and nimbly; start (in, out, away, etc.) with sudden quickness: as, to whip round the corner and disappear.
6. In angling, to cast the line or the fly by means of the rod with a motion like that of using a whip; make a cast.
7. To move, throw, put, pull, carry, or the like, with a sudden, quick motion; snatch: usually followed by some preposition or adverb, as away, from, in, into, off, on, out, up, etc.: as, to whip out a sword or a revolver.
8. To overlay, as a cord, rope, etc., with a cord, twine, or thread going round and round it; inwrap; seize; serve with twine, thread, or the like wound closely and tightly round and round: generally with about, around, over, etc.
9. To lay regularly on; serve in regular circles round and round.
10. To sew with an over and over stitch, as two pieces of cloth whose edges are laid or stitched together; overcast: as, to whip a seam.
11. To gather by a kind of combination running and overhand stitch: as, to whip a ruffle.
12. Nautical, to hoist or purchase by means of a rope passed through a single pulley.
13. To strike with a whip or lash, or with anything tough and flexible; lash; use a whip upon: as, to whip a horse.
14. To punish with a whip, scourge, birch, or the like; flog: as, to whip a vagrant; to whip a perverse boy.
15. To outdo; overcome; beat: as, to whip creation.
16. To drive with lashes.
17. To lash, in a figurative sense; treat with cutting severity, as with sarcasm or abuse.
18. To cause to spin or rotate by lashing with a whip or scourge-stick: said of a top.
19. To thrash; beat out, as grain by striking: as, to whip wheat.
20. To beat into a froth, as eggs, cream, etc., with a whisk, fork, spoon, or other implement.
21. To fish upon with a fly or other bait; draw a fly or other bait along the surface of: as, to whip a stream.
22. To bring or keep together as a party whip does: as, to whip a party into line. See whip, n., 3 .
23. To go from house to house to work, as a tailor or other workman. Compare whip-cat.
24. To get tipsy.
25. n. An instrument for flagellation, whether in driving animals or in punishing human beings; a scourge. In its typical form it is composed of a lash of some kind fastened upon a handle more or less rigid; the common form of horse-whip has little or no lash, being a long, tapering, and very pliant switch-like rod of wood, whalebone, or other material, usually wound or braided over with thread.
26. n. One who handles a whip, as in driving a coach or carriage; a driver: as, an expert whip.
27. n. A whipper-in. Specifically
28. n. In English parliamentary usage, a member who performs certain non-official but important duties in looking after the interests of his party, especially the securing of the attendance of as many members as possible at important divisions: as, the Liberal whip; the Conservative whip. See the quotation.
29. n. A call made upon the members of a party to be in their places at a certain time: as, both parties have issued a rigorous whip in. view of the expected division.
30. n. A contrivance for hoisting, consisting of a rope and pulley and usually a snatch-block, and worked by one or more horses which in hoisting walk a way from thething hoisted. In mining usually called whip-and-derry. See cut under cable-laid.
31. n. One of the radii or arms of a windmill, to which the sails are attached; also, the length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.
32. n. In angling, the leader of an angler's cast with its flies attached. The fly at the end is the drag-fly, tail-fly, or stretcher; those above are the drop-flies, droppers, or bobbers. More fully called a whip of flies.
33. n. A vibrating spring used as an electric cir cuitcloser for testing capacity. The spring is permanently connected to one plate of the condenser or cable, and vibrates between two studs, contact with one of which closes a battery circuit, and with the other a galvanometer circuit. The condenser is thus in rapid succession charged from the battery and discharged through the galvanometer. The indications of the latter are thus proportional to the rate of vibration and the capacity of the condenser.
34. n. A slender rod or flexible pole used instead of stakes to mark the bounds of oyster-beds.
35. n. The common black swift, Cypselus apus.
36. n. A preparation of cream, eggs, etc., beaten to a froth.
37. With a sudden change; at once; quick.

Wiktionary

1. n. A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals
2. n. politics A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.
3. n. Whipped cream.
4. n. nautical A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
5. n. African American Vernacular A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
6. n. A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
7. v. transitive To hit with a whip.
8. v. transitive By extension, to hit with any flexible object.
9. v. transitive To defeat.
10. v. transitive To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
11. v. transitive To urge into action.
12. v. transitive, nautical To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling
13. v. transitive To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
14. v. transitive To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
15. v. intransitive To snap back and forth like a whip.
16. v. intransitive To move very fast.
17. v. transitive (roller derby) To transfer momentum from one skater to another.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat.
2. v. To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord.
3. v. To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat.
4. v. To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
5. v. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
6. v. To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.
7. v. Slang, U. S. To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass.
8. v. To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over.
9. v. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
10. v. To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.
11. v. To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
12. v. To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.
13. v. To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.
14. v. To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk.
15. n. An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod.
16. n. A coachman; a driver of a carriage.
17. n. One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread.
18. n. The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.
19. n. A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies.
20. n. The long pennant. See Pennant (a)
21. n. A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.
22. n. A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed.
23. n. A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.
24. n. A whipping motion; a thrashing about; ; also, the quality of being whiplike or flexible; flexibility; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
25. n. (Mech.) Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion, as a spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit, or a rocking certain piano actions.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit
2. v. strike as if by whipping
3. v. beat severely with a whip or rod
4. n. an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping
5. v. subject to harsh criticism
6. v. whip with or as if with a wire whisk
7. n. (golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club
8. v. defeat thoroughly
9. n. a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline
10. n. a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
11. v. thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash