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# pip

noun (a pip, pips); verb (pip, pips, pipped, pipping)

«pip» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A small seed in fruit such as an apple, orange, lemon or grape. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pip/#m1)
2. A short high sound, like the time signal on the radio (the pips). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pip/#m2)
3. A small spot or symbol, such as a dot on a dice or a star on an officer's uniform. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pip/#m3)
4. (verb, UK, informal) To beat someone by a very small amount: pipped at the post. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pip/#m4)
5. (UK, informal) Give someone the pip: annoy them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pip/#m5)

### In the lessons

In science lessons on plants a pip is a seed that can grow into a new plant. In maths dice problems, the pips are the dots. In sport and everyday British talk, someone was pipped to first place by a tiny margin. Phrases: pipped at the post, squeeze someone until the pips squeak.

### Examples

- Be careful, this orange has lots of pips. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pip/#x1)
- We planted an apple pip in a pot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pip/#x2)
- The dice showed four pips. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pip/#x3)
- Our team was pipped to the cup by one point. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pip/#x4)
- Listen for the pips before the news. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pip/#x5)
- Spit the grape pips into the bowl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pip/#x6)
- That noise really gives me the pip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pip/#x7)

### Note

Pip is used for small seeds; big ones are stones (peach) or pits (US). Past form pipped (double p). Also a name, as in Pip from Great Expectations.

## In Jewish tradition

Not used in this sense: the sentence has "piped with pipes", meaning played flutes.

**Interpretation.** The people played flutes and rejoiced when Solomon was anointed king, and the tradition sees this as the joy at a king's rightful crowning.

### Examples

- And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them. (Prophets 1KI.1.40, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pip/#x1)

### Note

Pip is used for small seeds; big ones are stones (peach) or pits (US). Past form pipped (double p). Also a name, as in Pip from Great Expectations.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «pip» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pip/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pip» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pip.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «pip» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pip/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pip» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/pip.html) on Mova free.