pip
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- noun
- /pɪp/
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punto
- Steer straight for that pip at 119!
Examples
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Now, watch your scope and tell me when you see a pip on it.
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The radar screen displayed a bright red pip indicating an object nearby.
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Then we have a blue single pip panel that stands there.
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We got a pip, bearing 098, range 14 miles.
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A black line snaked across the map, with pips marking the position expected at the end of each day.
Fiction book (1999) -
The radar's intermittent but it's showing a pip... 10 or 12 miles east of Monomoy Point, moving south.
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During the game, I noticed a single black pip on the card that changed my strategy.
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The captain pointed out the pip on the monitor, which showed the location of the approaching vessel.
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Etymology
Pip The word pip for a small dot or mark comes from the same old word for a fruit 'pip' meaning a tiny 'seed', because the little spots on dice or screens look like tiny seeds, so each 'pip' is a small point.