Meaning

9 senses
  1. (transitive)To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).

  2. (figuratively, transitive)To touch lightly.

  3. (intransitive, transitive)To wash against a surface, lap.

  4. (intransitive)To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.

  5. (transitive)To form the rim, edge or margin of something.

  6. (transitive)To utter verbally.

  7. (transitive)To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.

  8. To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.

  9. (transitive)To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.

Examples

523 sentences
  1. Tom put a finger to his lips.

    Том приклав палець до губ. — deniko

  2. Tom has big lips.

    У Тома великі губи. — deniko

    deTom hat große Lippen. — wolfgangth

  3. I have big lips.

    У мене великі губи. — deniko

    ruУ меня большие губы. — marafon

    deIch habe große Lippen. — wolfgangth

  4. I read lips.

    Я читаю по губах. — deniko

    ruЯ читаю по губам. — sharptoothed

    deIch lese Lippen. — Yorwba

  5. Your lips are red.

    У тебе червоні губи. — deniko

    ruТвои губы красные. — gleki

    deDeine Lippen sind rot. — Espi

Origin

From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic

From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepô, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”).

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Forms

lips, lipping, lipped, lipped
Base formlip · to lip
3rd person singularlips
Present participlelipping
Past simplelipped
Past participlelipped

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theylip
he, she, itlips

Past simpleLesson

all personslipped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave lipped
he, she, ithas lipped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill lip

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Collocations

4 patterns
  • on the lips
  • read lips
  • to his lips
  • your lips are

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
lip — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto