tippingn.¹

Forms: Also tippen.

Etymology: < tip v.³ (or tip n.¹) + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtipping.

1. The action of furnishing or fitting with a tip.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > [noun] > slender > furnishing with

tipping1559

1559 Dunmow Churchw. MS. lf. 44 Payed to John Hootte for typpinge of a spade.

1905 Longman's Mag. Feb. 355 There is no tipping of split sticks with sulphur to make matches.

2. concrete.

a. A piece fashioned or fitted on to form a tip, esp. of a different material or colour.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > tipping, edging, or mounting

tippingc1325

purflec1400

jagging1502

mounture1575

mountinga1630

mount1739

scallopinga1800

horn-tip1808

c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 150 De la ceynture le pendaunt, gl. the girdilis ende tipping.

1483 Cath. Angl. 389/1 A Typpynge of A boltt.

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. B2 Crudled clouds with silver tippings dight.

1785 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 399 Reckoning from the extremities of the bell-metal tippings.

b. = tippet n. 4(a).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > other parts of line

warp1496

linka1609

tought1676

tippet1825

trace1839

tipping1881

1881 W. Gregor Notes Folk-lore N.-E. Scotl. 52 Lines, hair for tippens, hooks.

1924 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 710/1 Many of the books have been torn from their tippings.

3. Horticulture. A method of grafting, also called tonguing: see quot. 1763.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > other methods of grafting

emplastering?c1425

emplastration?1440

infoliation1577

semination1589

emplaster1601

packing1615

shoulder-grafting1669

side grafting1704

crown grafting1706

root grafting1707

rind grafting1722

tipping1763

saddle grafting1792

wedge-grafting1838

1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 217 The third method [of whip-grafting], which is an improvement of the last, is properly named tipping or tonguing.

4. Bookbinding. (See quot. 1931.) Usually with in. Cf. tip v.² 2d; tip-in n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > [noun] > other processes

headbanding1707

lacing1818

steamboating1826

casework1835

stringing1914

tipping1931

backing-

1931 A. Esdaile Student's Man. Bibliogr. 183 Tipping-in; pasting the edge of a single leaf to the next leaf.

1963 W. Clowes Guide to Printing i. 8 Sometimes..tipping-in might not give sufficient strength.

1966 H. Williamson Methods Bk. Design (ed. 2) xix. 322 Unless the tipping is very accurate.., the tipped plate will raise the text page to which it is attached when it is turned.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

tippingn.²

Brit.

/ˈtɪpɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈtɪpɪŋ/

Etymology: < tip v.² + -ing suffix¹.

The action of tip v.² in various senses: spec.

1. Tilting, inclination, upsetting.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination from the level or slope > tilting or tipping

tilting1658

canting1769

tilt1837

tip1849

tipping1853

1853 C. Dickens Spirit Business in Househ. Words 7 May 218/2 ‘Tippings’..denotes the spiritual movements of the tables and chairs.

1863 J. G. Holland Lett. to Joneses vii. 105 Scraping of fiddles, and the tipping of tables.

1866 London Rev. 25 Aug. 206/2 Whether this tipping of the mental balance was not a physical rather than a mental mishap.

1901 Essex Weekly News 8 Mar. 3/3 Owing to the frequent tipping of the tumbril.

2. Skittles.

ΚΠ

1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vii. §9 In playing at skittles, there is a double exertion; one by bowling, and the other by tipping: the first is performed at a given distance, and the second standing close to the frame upon which the pins are placed, and throwing the ball through the midst of them.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Skittles If in tipping the bowl is caught or stopped by one of the opposite party, who, in so doing, stops or impedes a live pin, the party who stops loses one from his own score.

a. The tilting up of a truck so as to discharge its contents; the emptying out of the contents of a truck, etc., by tilting; dumping.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > emptiness > emptying > by tipping or dumping

tipping1838

1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 354/1 A contrivance to facilitate the tipping of the earth-waggons.

1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 85/2 The price he paid for tipping was 13s. 6d. per hundred wagons.

1878 F. S. Williams Midland Railway (ed. 4) 51 The Oakenshard cutting and embankment..required the quarrying and tipping of some 600,000 yards of rock.

Thesaurus »

b. plural (concrete) Material tipped or emptied out from a quarry, etc.

c. A railway embankment. local.

ΚΠ

1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Tipping, a railway embankment formed by tipping wagons full of soil or stone.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Aug. 5/1 The quarries at Llanberis, whose tippings are gradually filling up the once beautiful Llyn Peris.

d. attributive, as tipping machine, tipping platform, tipping wagon: cf. tip- comb. form.

ΚΠ

1877 Scotsman 1 Sept. 4/7 Tipping machine.

1885 E. Du Cane Punishm. & Prevent. Crime 180 Removing the earth..by means of..tipping waggons.

1891 Daily News 6 Feb. 6/3 200 clerks have intimated their readiness to do the tipping work till other arrangements have been made.

1901 Feilden's Mag. 4 436/2 A ‘tipping platform’ for the storage of the refuse and for the feeding of the furnaces.

Draft additions August 2004

tipping point n. the point at which a series of small changes or incidents becomes significant enough to cause a larger, more important, and often irreversible change.ⓘ

ΚΠ

1957 Sci. Amer. Oct. 34 White residents who will tolerate a few Negroes as neighbors..begin to move out when the proportion of Negroes in the neighborhood or apartment building passes a certain critical point. This ‘tip point’ varies from city to city and from neighborhood to neighborhood.]

1959 N.Y. Times iv. 7/7 Exactly when the ‘tipping point’ of white acceptance will be reached will depend upon the attitude of the individual white parent and upon the general white community attitude.

1988 Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Hist. 18 605 The critical point arrived when the Spartans began to believe that time was moving against them and in favor of the Athenians. A tipping-point or fundamental change in the Spartan perception of the balance of power had taken place.

2014 G. Vince Adventures in Anthropocene Introd. 10 Glacier melt at the poles could reach a tipping point at which sudden runaway melting occurs and sea level rises by metres.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tippingn.³

Etymology: < tip v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtipping.

a. The action of tip v.¹; in quot. 1819, in sense 2 of the verb.

ΚΠ

1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 5 402/1 Leaving out compass, emphasis, shakes, holds, cadences, and tippings.

b. spec. in Music. The action of striking the tongue against the palate so as to produce a staccato effect in playing certain wind-instruments; also called tonguing n.

ΚΠ

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 435/1 Tipping. [Double tongueing.]

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 138/1 Double-tongueing, a peculiar action..to ensure a brilliant and spirited articulation of staccato notes.

c. (See quot. 1891.)

ΚΠ

1891 Cent. Dict. Tipping², n... 2. In the preparation of curled hair, the operation of tossing the carded hair about with a stick so that it will fall in tufts, to be afterwards consolidated by rapid blows.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tippingn.⁴

Etymology: < tip v.⁴ + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtipping.

The action of tip v.⁴; the bestowing of gratuities: see tip v.⁴ 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > paying (money) for labour or service > [noun] > giving tips

tipping1761

1761 R. Lloyd To G. Colman in Poet. Wks. (1774) I. 113 And walking gravely thro' the croud, Which stood obsequiously, and bow'd To keep the fashion up of tipping, Dropt in each hand a golden pippin.

1869 in Daily News 24 July A system of tipping had prevailed at Somerset-house and in the dockyards..which he would endeavour to uproot.

1893 G. E. Matheson About Holland 30 A good deal of tipping..has to be done in Holland.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

tippingn.⁵

Etymology: < tip v.⁵ + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtipping.

The giving of ‘tips’ or private information as to the chances of sporting events, etc. Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > action of informing > [noun] > giving private or special information

officing1859

tipping1883

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Oct. 4/1 The ‘glorious uncertainties’ of turf ‘tipping’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

tippingadj.

Etymology: < tip v.³ + -ing suffix², after topping: compare tip-top.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtipping.

dialect and slang.

First-rate, excellent, = topping adj. (Cf. ripping adj.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] > very excellent or first-rate

gildenc1225

prime1402

rare1483

grand1542

holy1599

pre-excelling1600

paregal1602

classic1604

of (the) first rate1650

solary1651

first rate1674

superb1720

tip-top1722

tip-top-gallant1730

swell1819

topping1822

of the first (also finest, best, etc.) water1826

No. 11829

brag1836

A11837

A No. 11838

number one1839

awful1843

bully1851

first class1852

class1867

champion1880

too1881

tipping1887

alpha plus1898

bonzer1898

grade A1911

gold star1917

world-ranking1921

five-star1936

too much1937

first line1938

vintage1939

supercolossal1947

top1953

alpha1958

fantabulous1959

beauty1963

supercool1965

world-class1967

primo1973

1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire They bin tippin' cheers; they'n do well for go i' ahr parlour.

1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VII. ii. 135/1 Tipping..(schools'), first-rate; jolly.

1903 R. N. Carey Passage Perilous (Tauchn.) 119 It is tipping, Chriss, and suits you down to the ground.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

n.¹c1325

n.²1801

n.³1819

n.⁴1761

n.⁵1883

adj.1887

单词	tipping
释义	tippingn.¹ Forms: Also tippen. Etymology: < tip v.³ (or tip n.¹) + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtipping. 1. The action of furnishing or fitting with a tip. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > [noun] > slender > furnishing with tipping1559 1559 Dunmow Churchw. MS. lf. 44 Payed to John Hootte for typpinge of a spade. 1905 Longman's Mag. Feb. 355 There is no tipping of split sticks with sulphur to make matches. 2. concrete. a. A piece fashioned or fitted on to form a tip, esp. of a different material or colour. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > tipping, edging, or mounting tippingc1325 purflec1400 jagging1502 mounture1575 mountinga1630 mount1739 scallopinga1800 horn-tip1808 c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 150 De la ceynture le pendaunt, gl. the girdilis ende tipping. 1483 Cath. Angl. 389/1 A Typpynge of A boltt. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. B2 Crudled clouds with silver tippings dight. 1785 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 399 Reckoning from the extremities of the bell-metal tippings. b. = tippet n. 4(a). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > other parts of line warp1496 linka1609 tought1676 tippet1825 trace1839 tipping1881 1881 W. Gregor Notes Folk-lore N.-E. Scotl. 52 Lines, hair for tippens, hooks. 1924 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 710/1 Many of the books have been torn from their tippings. 3. Horticulture. A method of grafting, also called tonguing: see quot. 1763. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > other methods of grafting emplastering?c1425 emplastration?1440 infoliation1577 semination1589 emplaster1601 packing1615 shoulder-grafting1669 side grafting1704 crown grafting1706 root grafting1707 rind grafting1722 tipping1763 saddle grafting1792 wedge-grafting1838 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 217 The third method [of whip-grafting], which is an improvement of the last, is properly named tipping or tonguing. 4. Bookbinding. (See quot. 1931.) Usually with in. Cf. tip v.² 2d; tip-in n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > [noun] > other processes headbanding1707 lacing1818 steamboating1826 casework1835 stringing1914 tipping1931 backing- 1931 A. Esdaile Student's Man. Bibliogr. 183 Tipping-in; pasting the edge of a single leaf to the next leaf. 1963 W. Clowes Guide to Printing i. 8 Sometimes..tipping-in might not give sufficient strength. 1966 H. Williamson Methods Bk. Design (ed. 2) xix. 322 Unless the tipping is very accurate.., the tipped plate will raise the text page to which it is attached when it is turned. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020). tippingn.² Brit. /ˈtɪpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈtɪpɪŋ/ Etymology: < tip v.² + -ing suffix¹. The action of tip v.² in various senses: spec. 1. Tilting, inclination, upsetting. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination from the level or slope > tilting or tipping tilting1658 canting1769 tilt1837 tip1849 tipping1853 1853 C. Dickens Spirit Business in Househ. Words 7 May 218/2 ‘Tippings’..denotes the spiritual movements of the tables and chairs. 1863 J. G. Holland Lett. to Joneses vii. 105 Scraping of fiddles, and the tipping of tables. 1866 London Rev. 25 Aug. 206/2 Whether this tipping of the mental balance was not a physical rather than a mental mishap. 1901 Essex Weekly News 8 Mar. 3/3 Owing to the frequent tipping of the tumbril. 2. Skittles. ΚΠ 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vii. §9 In playing at skittles, there is a double exertion; one by bowling, and the other by tipping: the first is performed at a given distance, and the second standing close to the frame upon which the pins are placed, and throwing the ball through the midst of them. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Skittles If in tipping the bowl is caught or stopped by one of the opposite party, who, in so doing, stops or impedes a live pin, the party who stops loses one from his own score. 3. a. The tilting up of a truck so as to discharge its contents; the emptying out of the contents of a truck, etc., by tilting; dumping. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > emptiness > emptying > by tipping or dumping tipping1838 1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 354/1 A contrivance to facilitate the tipping of the earth-waggons. 1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 85/2 The price he paid for tipping was 13s. 6d. per hundred wagons. 1878 F. S. Williams Midland Railway (ed. 4) 51 The Oakenshard cutting and embankment..required the quarrying and tipping of some 600,000 yards of rock. Thesaurus » b. plural (concrete) Material tipped or emptied out from a quarry, etc. c. A railway embankment. local. ΚΠ 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Tipping, a railway embankment formed by tipping wagons full of soil or stone. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Aug. 5/1 The quarries at Llanberis, whose tippings are gradually filling up the once beautiful Llyn Peris. d. attributive, as tipping machine, tipping platform, tipping wagon: cf. tip- comb. form. ΚΠ 1877 Scotsman 1 Sept. 4/7 Tipping machine. 1885 E. Du Cane Punishm. & Prevent. Crime 180 Removing the earth..by means of..tipping waggons. 1891 Daily News 6 Feb. 6/3 200 clerks have intimated their readiness to do the tipping work till other arrangements have been made. 1901 Feilden's Mag. 4 436/2 A ‘tipping platform’ for the storage of the refuse and for the feeding of the furnaces. Draft additions August 2004 tipping point n. the point at which a series of small changes or incidents becomes significant enough to cause a larger, more important, and often irreversible change.ⓘ ΚΠ 1957 Sci. Amer. Oct. 34 White residents who will tolerate a few Negroes as neighbors..begin to move out when the proportion of Negroes in the neighborhood or apartment building passes a certain critical point. This ‘tip point’ varies from city to city and from neighborhood to neighborhood.] 1959 N.Y. Times iv. 7/7 Exactly when the ‘tipping point’ of white acceptance will be reached will depend upon the attitude of the individual white parent and upon the general white community attitude. 1988 Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Hist. 18 605 The critical point arrived when the Spartans began to believe that time was moving against them and in favor of the Athenians. A tipping-point or fundamental change in the Spartan perception of the balance of power had taken place. 2014 G. Vince Adventures in Anthropocene Introd. 10 Glacier melt at the poles could reach a tipping point at which sudden runaway melting occurs and sea level rises by metres. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tippingn.³ Etymology: < tip v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtipping. a. The action of tip v.¹; in quot. 1819, in sense 2 of the verb. ΚΠ 1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 5 402/1 Leaving out compass, emphasis, shakes, holds, cadences, and tippings. b. spec. in Music. The action of striking the tongue against the palate so as to produce a staccato effect in playing certain wind-instruments; also called tonguing n. ΚΠ 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 435/1 Tipping. [Double tongueing.] 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 138/1 Double-tongueing, a peculiar action..to ensure a brilliant and spirited articulation of staccato notes. c. (See quot. 1891.) ΚΠ 1891 Cent. Dict. Tipping², n... 2. In the preparation of curled hair, the operation of tossing the carded hair about with a stick so that it will fall in tufts, to be afterwards consolidated by rapid blows. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tippingn.⁴ Etymology: < tip v.⁴ + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtipping. The action of tip v.⁴; the bestowing of gratuities: see tip v.⁴ 2. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > paying (money) for labour or service > [noun] > giving tips tipping1761 1761 R. Lloyd To G. Colman in Poet. Wks. (1774) I. 113 And walking gravely thro' the croud, Which stood obsequiously, and bow'd To keep the fashion up of tipping, Dropt in each hand a golden pippin. 1869 in Daily News 24 July A system of tipping had prevailed at Somerset-house and in the dockyards..which he would endeavour to uproot. 1893 G. E. Matheson About Holland 30 A good deal of tipping..has to be done in Holland. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019). tippingn.⁵ Etymology: < tip v.⁵ + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtipping. The giving of ‘tips’ or private information as to the chances of sporting events, etc. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > action of informing > [noun] > giving private or special information officing1859 tipping1883 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Oct. 4/1 The ‘glorious uncertainties’ of turf ‘tipping’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019). tippingadj. Etymology: < tip v.³ + -ing suffix², after topping: compare tip-top.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtipping. dialect and slang. First-rate, excellent, = topping adj. (Cf. ripping adj.) ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] > very excellent or first-rate gildenc1225 prime1402 rare1483 grand1542 holy1599 pre-excelling1600 paregal1602 classic1604 of (the) first rate1650 solary1651 first rate1674 superb1720 tip-top1722 tip-top-gallant1730 swell1819 topping1822 of the first (also finest, best, etc.) water1826 No. 11829 brag1836 A11837 A No. 11838 number one1839 awful1843 bully1851 first class1852 class1867 champion1880 too1881 tipping1887 alpha plus1898 bonzer1898 grade A1911 gold star1917 world-ranking1921 five-star1936 too much1937 first line1938 vintage1939 supercolossal1947 top1953 alpha1958 fantabulous1959 beauty1963 supercool1965 world-class1967 primo1973 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire They bin tippin' cheers; they'n do well for go i' ahr parlour. 1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VII. ii. 135/1 Tipping..(schools'), first-rate; jolly. 1903 R. N. Carey Passage Perilous (Tauchn.) 119 It is tipping, Chriss, and suits you down to the ground. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.¹c1325n.²1801n.³1819n.⁴1761n.⁵1883adj.1887
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