tip
/tɪp/ nom A2En français : bout, pointe, extrémité
- The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil. · the tip of one's nose
- A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration. · a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.
- The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
- A small piece of meat. · chicken tips over rice, pork tips, marinated alligator tips
- A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
- A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
- Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”).
- The glans penis. · my tip sticky rn· What's your tip color?
Pluriel tips
Verbes à particule et expressions
- tip back To drink a beverage, especially alcoholic and in large am...
- tip off To alert or inform (someone), especially confidentially.
- tip out To provide a percentage of tips to certain co-workers who...
- tip out To extract (something) by tipping over the container that...
- tip over (to cause) to topple over and fall
- tip up To tilt something upward in order to discharge its contents.
Dans la bibliothèque
While Madame de Villefort remained rooted to the spot like a statue of terror, and Villefort, with his head hidden in the bedclothes, saw nothing around him, d’Avrigny approached the window, that he might the better examine the contents of the glass, and dipping the tip of his finger in, tasted it.
“Why, if you ever make use of the details I am about to give you, that you will never let anyone know that it was I who supplied them; for the persons of whom I am about to talk are rich and powerful, and if they only laid the tips of their fingers on me, I should break to pieces like glass.”
Holmes leaned back in his chair, placed his finger-tips together, and closed his eyes, with an air of resignation.
“Then let me have the private ones.” He leaned back, put his finger-tips together, and assumed his most impassive and judicial expression.
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