English Dictionary

pip

IPA（発音記号）

/pɪp/

名詞

廃用 イギリス英語 アメリカ英語 口語 イギリス英語 古風

(obsolete) A pippin, seed of any kind. / (UK) A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as a peach, orange, or apple.

日本語の意味

(古語）種子全般。 / （英国英語）果物（ペーチ、オレンジ、リンゴなど）の中にある、石（核）の対比としての種子。

He pressed the pip into the soil, hoping it would grow into a memory of the orchard.

彼は種を土に押し込み、それが果樹園の思い出に育つことを願った。

意味（1）

(obsolete) A pippin, seed of any kind.

意味（2）

(UK) A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as a peach, orange, or apple.

On most of the shores of the ancient Mediterranean, before any historical record, the cultivated grape vine, Vitis vinifera Linn., was grown. Its relationship to the wild vine of Eurasia, Vitis silvestris Gmel., is uncertain. Its pips can mostly be distinguished from those of the wild vine, and have been found in Egypt and Syrian Hama from the fourth millennium BC, at Lachish and Jericho in the early Bronze, at Troy II during the Bronze, in the Peloponnesus from Early Helladic, in Crete from the Early Minoan.

意味（3）

(US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.

She sure is a pip, that one. You need company?

意味（4）

(Britain, dated, WW I, signalese) P in RAF phonetic alphabet.

pips （ plural ）