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kip

kɪp
WordNet
Half-length portrait to the left of Henricus Kipping at a table with books. Below his portrait two lines in Latin.
Half-length portrait to the left of Henricus Kipping at a table with books. Below his portrait two lines in Latin.
  1. (v) kip
    be asleep
  2. (n) kip
    a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
  3. (n) kip
    the basic unit of money in Laos
  4. (n) kip
    sleep "roused him from his kip"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Kip
    (Gymnastics) A method or feat of raising the body when hanging or swinging by the arms, as for the purpose of mounting upon the horizontal bar. The legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
  2. Kip
    A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
  3. Kip
    The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. kip
    To snatch; take up hastily.
  2. kip
    To hold or keep: with together.
  3. kip
    To conduct one's self; act.
  4. (n) kip
    The hide of a young or small beast, as a lamb or calf. The term is also applied to the skins of full-grown cattle when they are of a small breed, or, in general, undersized.
  5. (n) kip
    A sharp-pointed hill; a jutting point.
  6. (n) kip
    A hook.
  7. (n) kip
    The enlarged tip of the lower jaw of a spent salmon. See kipper, n.
  8. (n) kip
    In. coal-mining, a level or gently sloping outgoing roadway, at the extremity of an engine-plane, upon which the full tubs stand ready to be sent up the shaft.
  9. (n) kip
    A house of ill fame.
  10. (n) kip
    A lodging-house; a bed in a lodging-house; hence, a bed in general.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.i) Kip
    kip (Scot.) to play truant.
  2. (n) Kip
    kip the skin of a young animal
  3. (n) Kip
    kip a level or slight incline at the end of an underground way, on which the tubs of coal stand till hoisted up the shaft.
  4. (n) Kip
    kip a house of ill-fame
  5. Kip
    Also Kip′shop
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. G. kippe,

Usage in the news

Kip Moore is having quite the year. kicks105.com

Tim McGraw, Dierks Bentley, Kip Moore at CMAC. rochestercitynewspaper.com

Special Guests Justin Moore and Kip Moore are join the bill. 1027kord.com

Last year at this time, Kip Moore was mingling with fans at the CMA Music Festival, some familiar with him and some not. yrk.com

Is Kip Moore country music's next biggest star. cnn.com

Georgia native Kip Moore attends the Country Music Awards in April. cnn.com

Kip Moore's debut album, "Up All Night," landed in Billboard 200's Top 10. cnn.com

Number one song for the week of May 21, 2012 according to mediabase is Kip Moore Somethin' 'bout a Truck. fxd.com

Keep on truckin': For Kip Moore, a good truck means everything. usatoday.com

Country star Kip Moore is 'Up All Night'. espn.go.com

Country singer Kip Moore was scheduled to call in the morning to talk about his new CD "Up All Night," which is being released today. espn.go.com

Lee Brice, The Wanted, Eve 6, Kip Moore. usatoday.com

View past events for Kip 's Restaurant. eastbayexpress.com

Kip ' Pundt Is Honored By Snowflake Fire Department. azjournal.com

Republican state Rep Kip Smith was arrested early Friday morning in Buckhead and charged with DUI, according to an Atlanta police report obtained by Channel 2 Action News. ajc.com

Usage in scientific papers

We thank Kip Thorne and members of his relativity group for useful discussions. N.
Local and global properties of conformally flat initial data for black hole collisions

This information feeds a light curve generator based on the Mandel & Agol (2002) formalism, which itself is corrected for Kepler’s finite integration time (Kipping 2010).
An Independent Planet Search In The Kepler Dataset. I. A hundred new candidates and revised KOIs

The studies of Kipping & Bakos (2011) and Paper IV had access also to the Q2 data, although none of the three datasets were short-cadence.
Homogeneous studies of transiting extrasolar planets. V. New results for 38 planets

Even more important, they are not robust against outliers, they provide values of T 0 known to be biased (Kipping 2010) and errors on T 0 known to be underestimated (Pribulla et al. 2012).
TASTE. III. A homogeneous study of transit time variations in WASP-3b

This inequality can be achieved in two ways: (1) choose any a ≥ 0 and then use the fact that limp→∞ kip,q kHS = 0, (2) choose any p ≥ 0 such that ip,q is a HilbertSchmidt operator and then choose a sufficiently small number a ≥ 0.
Characterization of test functions in CKS-space

Usage in literature

KIP'S Christmas Holidays at Rome. "Evenings at Donaldson Manor" by Maria J. McIntosh

And mother," dropping to a whisper, "our Kip is to sing! "Joyce's Investments" by Fannie E. Newberry

It took its name from the old Kip family, who owned the adjacent estate. "The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn" by Henry P. Johnston

Nen I kip on fawever fine who ki' Jan Han Sun. "Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes" by Various

Gone were the Kips, with their waving lines. "The Dew of Their Youth" by S. R. Crockett

Browning, Benning, Dering, Dunning, Gunning, Hemming, Kipping, Manning, and many others which occur in place-names. "The Romance of Names" by Ernest Weekley

Mus' kip some fer da' Sunday. "Nights With Uncle Remus" by Joel Chandler Harris

Kip, Jacob Hendricksen, 14-17. "Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period" by Various

Dere's 'noder t'ing kip on your head, ma frien', dey mus' be tole Ma name's Bateese Trudeau no more, but John B. "Humour of the North" by Lawrence J. Burpee

Mus' kip some fer da' Sunday. "Nights With Uncle Remus" by Joel Chandler Harris

Usage in poetry
Leetle Lac Grenier, she 's all alone,
Back on de mountain dere,
But de pine tree an' spruce stan' ev'rywhere
Along by de shore, an' mak' her warm
For dey kip off de win' an' de winter storm.
"My boy be in Flanders, he's young an' he's bold,
But they will not have we, lass, for we be too old;
So step it out cheerful, an' kip up your heart,
For you an' me, Bess, we be doin' our part —"
O! all de monee dat I mak' w'en I be travel roun'
Can't kip me long away from home on dis beeg Yankee town,
I t'ink I'll settle down again on Parish Saint Michel,
An' leev an' die more satisfy so long I hear dat bell.
Pierre he was cryin', cryin' out on de barn behin',
Neighbors tryin' to kip heem goin' right off hees min',
W'en somebody say, "Las' winter, ma wife she is nearly go,
An' who do you t'ink is save her? ev'ry wan surely know.
"It treated me reel mean, that wound uv mine;
It 'ealed too quick, considerin' me state.
An' 'ere I am, back in the firin' line
Gamblin' wiv Fate.
It's like two-up: I'm 'eadin' 'em this trip;
But Iookin', day be day, to pass the kip.
Dat was de lesson ole Pierre Nadeau
Tell to me offen, so long ago--
Poor ole Pierre! an' I’m tryin' too,
Tak' hees advice, for I know it’s true,
But far as it goes we’re all de same breed,
An' it’s not so easy kip out de weed.