lip
- noun
- /lɪp/
Examples
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The front of this space is demarcated by a prominent lip connecting the structures.
Academic text (2012) -
Tom jumped for the unseen lip of the tunnel mouth; pushed off hard with his feet.
Fiction book (1992) -
Wolf Blitzer has a blister on his upper lip.
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The lip of the cup was chipped, making it hard to drink from.
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The flower had a bright red lip that attracted many pollinators.
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The shelf has a metal lip that helps keep the items from sliding off.
Synonyms
Outer part of an object that forms a border, often sharp
The outer edge of a round object like a cup or wheel
The top edge of a cup or glass
Idioms
- Informal
Pressing your lips together to keep from laughing or saying something
Compounds
A small fern with narrow leaves that grows in dry, shaded places in the southeastern United States
- Specialized
A program or device that looks at lip movements in video and turns them into text
- Specialized
A small evergreen plant with woolly hairs on the leaf stems and underside of its leaves
- Specialized
A small green plant with smooth edges on its leaves that grows in shady rocky places
- Specialized
A fern with tall upright leaves that grows in dry rocky places in the US southwest
- Specialized
A small North American evergreen fern with soft wool-like hairs on stems and the underside of leaves
How Prominent
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word lip also came to mean the 'edge' or rim of things like a cup, shell, or leaf from the same old German word lippa, so a shell's 'lip' is simply its rim.