pip
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
- Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
- A pippin, seed of any kind.
- A pippin, seed of any kind: A seed inside certain fleshy fruits, such as the stone (pit) of a stonefruit or the smaller seeds of an orange or apple.
- Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
- P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
- One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
- One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
- A spot; a speck.
- A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
- A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
- One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
- The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
- Acronym of picture-in-picture.
- Acronym of predicted impact point.
- Acronym of performance improvement plan.
- Acronym of product improvement program.
- Acronym of peak inspiratory pressure.
- Acronym of personal independence payment.
- Initialism of picture-in-picture.
Verb
- To remove the pips from.
- To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.
- To hit with a gunshot.
- To peep, to chirp.
- To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.
Proper noun
- Acronym of Peripheral Interchange Program.
- A diminutive form of the given names Philip, Phillip, Pippi and Philippa.
- The 1914 Star or 1914–15 Star medal.
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