Word · Frequency #10934
pip
禽鸟舌喉炎
a disease of poultry
- 1.
Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
- 2.
One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
- 3.
One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
短促的电子音(如倒计时或投币提示音)
- 4.
The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
外汇交易中的最小价格变动单位
- 5.
One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
- 6.
A spot; a speck.
- 7.
A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
- 8.
A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
小毛病；果仁；短促的电子音(如倒计时或投币提示音)；外汇交易中的最小价格变动单位；痂
In use
She carefully removed the pips from the apple before making the pie.
He jokingly spat the watermelon pips into the garden.
The children counted the pips in their slices of orange.
pips in [fruit]
（名词）pip 指苹果、橙子等水果里的硬小籽，常用复数 pips。
There are a lot of pips in these oranges.
这些橙子里有很多籽。
pip [sb] at the post
（动词，英国英语）表示在最后关头以微弱优势击败对手，常用于比赛或名次争夺。
She pipped her rival at the post for the gold medal.
她在最后一刻险胜对手，夺得金牌。
pip [fruit]
（动词）表示去掉水果的籽，多见于烹饪说明。
Connections
Collocations
- apple pips
- 苹果籽
- She always removes the apple pips before giving the fruit to her toddler.她总是在把苹果给幼儿之前去掉苹果籽。
- orange pips
- 橙子籽
- The orange pips are small but very bitter.橙子籽虽小，但很苦。
- remove the pips
- 去掉籽
- Remove the pips from the apples before making the pie.做苹果派之前要先去籽。
- spit out the pips
- 吐出籽
- He ate the grapes and spat out the pips.他吃葡萄时把籽吐了出来。
- have the pip
- 感到不适；有点小毛病
- I think I have the pip – I feel a bit off today.我想我有点不舒服——今天感觉不太对劲。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
p-i-p 三个字母像三粒小籽：果仁是小 pip，禽鸟小病也叫 pip；被 pipped 就是被击败。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：everyday talk about fruit seeds、informal conversation about a minor illness、veterinary or poultry farming 作名词时语域随义项变化：表示‘果仁/籽’最常用且偏中性；表示‘小毛病’多用于非正式口语；表示‘禽鸟舌喉炎’则比较常见于兽医或养殖等专业语境。建议先掌握‘果仁/籽’这一日常义。
Pronunciation & Spelling
这些词都以 /ɪp/ 结尾，和 pip 押韵。注意：pipe 虽然拼写相近，但读作 /paɪp/，不押韵。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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