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nip::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | flavor, flavour, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang |
| Type of | gustatory perception, taste perception, taste sensation, taste, gustatory sensation |
| Has types | lemon, vanilla |
| Derivation | nippy |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | chilliness, coolness |
| Type of | low temperature, frigidness, frigidity, coldness, cold |
| Derivation | nippy |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | shot |
| Type of | small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount |
Examples of nip
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So ideal if I want to nip there after work to shop, drink or eat in east London.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
In terms of grazing, I would try to nip it in the bud by not allowing it at all.
From the ocregister.com
You can still nip this in the bud, and I think together we can get through this.
From the newsweek.com
Real twentysomething record-label employees would nip from flasks to save money.
From the latimes.com
He is a pitbull mix and showed aggressive tendencies and liked to nip at people.
From the dailyherald.com
Gul is bowling well here, and slips another nip-backer between KP's bat and pad.
From the guardian.co.uk
Didn't bowl the house down in the first innings but he can get them to nip back.
From the smh.com.au
There is a nip in the air and, if we are patient, we do get some lovely colors.
From the tennessean.com
That nip in the air is a sure sign that the growing season is drawing to a close.
From the stltoday.com
- A small drink of liquor; "he poured a shot of whiskey"
- Pinch: squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle"
- Give a small sharp bite to; "The Queen's corgis always nip at her staff's ankles"
- Jap: (offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent
- Relish: the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- Sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers"
- Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP) was a professional Counter-Strike clan based in Sweden. They were considered to be one of the top teams in the world by many, including GotFrag.
- In model theory, a branch of mathematical logic, a complete theory T is said to satisfy NIP (or "not the independence property") if none of its formulae satisfy the independence property, that is if none of its formulae can pick out any given subset of an arbitrarily large finite set.
- (NIPS) Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is a machine learning and computational neuroscience conference held every December in Vancouver, Canada. It began in 1987 as a computational cognitive science conference, and was held in Denver, Colorado until 2000.
