Tip (disambiguation)
Encyclopedia
In the English language, tip may refer to:
Tip may also refer to:
- (Worldwide): a gratuity (a voluntary additional payment made for services rendered)
- (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand): a place for disposal of domestic waste; a landfillLandfillA landfill site , is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment...
Tip may also refer to:
In science and technology
- TIP, a Terminal Interface Processor used to provide terminal sessions on ARPANET
- Tip (Unix utility)Tip (unix utility)tip is a unix utility for establishing a terminal connection to a remote system via a modem. It is commonly associated with Sun's Solaris as it comes with that operating system.-Basics:...
, a software program for remote terminal sessions - Tip and ringTip and ring"Tip" and "Ring" are common terms in the telephone service industry referring to the two wires or sides of an ordinary telephone line. Tip is the ground side and Ring is the battery side of a phone circuit. In the UK these are referred to as the 'A' and 'B' wires...
, two wires in a telephone line - The Treatise on Invertebrate PaleontologyTreatise on Invertebrate PaleontologyThe Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology published by the Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas Press, is a definitive multi-authored work of some 50 volumes, written by more than 300 paleontologists, and covering every phylum, class, order, family, and genus of fossil and...
, a work containing taxonomies of invertebrate fossils - Translation Inhibitory Protein, a protein which can be produced by the induction of interferons
- Traveling In-core Probe, used in nuclear reactors
- The tip, the most recently added changeset in the distributed revision control tool MercurialMercurial (software)Mercurial is a cross-platform, distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is mainly implemented using the Python programming language, but includes a binary diff implementation written in C. It is supported on Windows and Unix-like systems, such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Linux...
- TIP, name of early prototypes of the text editor program nanoNano (text editor)nano is a text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface. It emulates the Pico text editor, part of the Pine email client, and also provides additional functionality....
- TIP (Tank Infantry Phone) a device on a tank, used by infantry to communicate with the crew of the tank.
- MasterCardMasterCardMastercard Incorporated or MasterCard Worldwide is an American multinational financial services corporation with its headquarters in the MasterCard International Global Headquarters, Purchase, Harrison, New York, United States...
's Terminal Integration Process (TIP)
In entertainment media
- The TipThe Tip-Cast:* Harold Lloyd* Snub Pollard* Bebe Daniels* W.L. Adams* William Blaisdell* Sammy Brooks* Harry Frick* Marie Gilbert* William Gillespie* Max Hamburger* Oscar Larson* Gus Leonard* Chris Lynton* M.J. McCarthy* Belle Mitchell* Marie Mosquini* Fred C...
, a 1918 film starring Harold Lloyd - Tip (album)Tip (album)Tip is the second album by Finger Eleven, following their name change. The band was dropped from their record label in 1997, six weeks after the album was released in Canada. They were picked up by Wind-up and the album was re-released on September 15, 1998, to the U.S. and Canada.Following the...
, a 1997 album by the band Finger Eleven - T.I.P. (album), a 2005 album by rapper Young Buck
- Viva Piñata: Trouble in ParadiseViva Piñata: Trouble in ParadiseViva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise is the Xbox 360 sequel to the critically acclaimed life simulation game entitled Viva Piñata. The title was officially announced on May 13, 2008 with a September 2, 2008 release date in North America and a September 5, 2008 date in Europe.-Plot:The second Viva...
, a video game - T.I.P., also known as T.I.T.I.Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. , better known by his stage name T.I., is an American rap artist, film and music producer, actor and author. He is also the founder and co-chief executive officer of Grand Hustle Records....
, a rapper - Princess OzmaPrincess OzmaPrincess Ozma is a fictional character in the Land of Oz, created by L. Frank Baum. She appears in every book of the series except the first, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz .She is the rightful ruler of Oz, and L...
, nicknamed Tip, a fictional character in the book The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum - Tip, a FIFA World Cup mascotFIFA World Cup mascotEach FIFA World Cup since 1966 has its own mascot. World Cup Willie, the mascot for the 1966 competition, was the first World Cup mascot, and one of the first mascots to be associated with a major sporting competition...
in 1974 - T.I.P. Crew, a South Korean b-boy crew
- TIP, Threat Image Projection, a technology used in X-rayX-rayX-radiation is a form of electromagnetic radiation. X-rays have a wavelength in the range of 0.01 to 10 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz and energies in the range 120 eV to 120 keV. They are shorter in wavelength than UV rays and longer than gamma...
screening machines.
Other uses
- Tip (gratuity)
- Hat tipHat tipA hat tip is an act of tipping or doffing one's hat as a cultural expression of recognition, respect, gratitude, greeting, or simple salutation and acknowledgement between two persons....
, an expression of recognition or gratitude - iSharesISharesiShares are a family of exchange-traded funds managed by BlackRock. The first iShares were known as WEBS but were since rebranded.Each iShares fund tracks a bond or stock market index...
(stock symbol TIP), Barclays TIPS Bond, an exchange-traded fund - T.I.P.T.I.P.-Credits:Mastering*Eric Conn*Don CobbMixing*Eric SchillingDesign*Blake FranklinPerformer*Rizin' Sun-*Smoov Jizzell-Chart performance:...
, stands for Thumb, Index, Pinky, which are the three fingers that are held up to show "I Love You" in sign language. - Square dance tip, a group of dances in square dancing
- Tag (game)Tag (game)Tag is a playground game played worldwide that involves one or more players chasing other players in an attempt to tag or touch them, usually with their fingers. There are many variations...
, an informal playground game involving chasing and touching - Talent Identification ProgramTalent Identification ProgramThe Duke Talent Identification Program is a gifted education program based at Duke University. Its purpose is to identify gifted children and provide them and their parents the resources for them to reach their full educational potential....
, a gifted education program at Duke University - Technological Institute of the PhilippinesTechnological Institute of the PhilippinesThe Technological Institute of the Philippines or "TIP" is a private, non-sectarian, tertiary level institution in the Philippines which heavily specializes in the fields of engineering....
, a school in the Philippines - Terminal indecomposable past set in the study of causal structureCausal structureIn mathematical physics, the causal structure of a Lorentzian manifold describes the causal relationships between points in the manifold.- Introduction :In modern physics spacetime is represented by a Lorentzian manifold...
s of spacetimeSpacetimeIn physics, spacetime is any mathematical model that combines space and time into a single continuum. Spacetime is usually interpreted with space as being three-dimensional and time playing the role of a fourth dimension that is of a different sort from the spatial dimensions... - Tip (gambling), a betting information source
- Tipping face, the active part of a landfillLandfillA landfill site , is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment...
- Tippu TipTippu TipTippu Tip or Tib , real name Hamad bin Muḥammad bin Jumah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Sa‘īd al-Murghabī, , was a Swahili-Zanzibari trader. He was famously known as Tippu Tib after an eye disease which made him blind...
, notorious 19th century slave dealer - The IATAInternational Air Transport AssociationThe International Air Transport Association is an international industry trade group of airlines headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where the International Civil Aviation Organization is also headquartered. The executive offices are at the Geneva Airport in SwitzerlandIATA's mission is to...
airport code for Tripoli International AirportTripoli International AirportThe Tripoli International Airport is an international airport that serves Tripoli, Libya. It is operated by the Civil Aviation and Meteorology Bureau of Libya and is the nation's largest airport... - Trafficking in persons, otherwise known as human traffickingHuman traffickingHuman trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, or a modern-day form of slavery...
- Typhoon TipTyphoon TipTyphoon Tip was the largest and most intense tropical cyclone on record. The nineteenth tropical storm and twelfth typhoon of the 1979 Pacific typhoon season, Tip developed out of a disturbance in the monsoon trough on October 4 near Pohnpei...
, the largest and most intense tropical cyclone on record - TIP, Titre Interbancaire de Paiement