Tip
In the English language, tip may refer to:
- (Worldwide): a gratuity (a voluntary additional payment made for services rendered)
- (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand): a place for disposal of domestic waste; a landfill
Tip may also refer to:
In science and technology
- TIP, a Terminal Interface Processor used to provide terminal sessions on ARPANET
- Tip (Unix utility), a software program for remote terminal sessions
- Tip and ring, two wires in a telephone line
- The Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, a work containing taxonomies of invertebrate fossils
- Translation Inhibitory Protein, a protein which can be produced by the induction of interferons
- Traveling In-core Probe, used in nuclear reactors
- The tip, the most recently added changeset in the distributed revision control tool Mercurial
- TIP, name of early prototypes of the text editor program nano
- TIP (Tank Infantry Phone) a device on a tank, used by infantry to communicate with the crew of the tank.
- MasterCard's Terminal Integration Process (TIP)
In entertainment media
- The Tip, a 1918 film starring Harold Lloyd
- Tip (album), a 1997 album by the band Finger Eleven
- T.I.P. (album), a 2005 album by rapper Young Buck
- Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise, a video game
- T.I.P., also known as T.I., a rapper
- Princess Ozma, nicknamed Tip, a fictional character in the book The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Tip, a FIFA World Cup mascot in 1974
- T.I.P. Crew, a South Korean b-boy crew
- TIP, Threat Image Projection, a technology used in X-ray screening machines.
Other uses
- Tip (gratuity)
- Hat tip, an expression of recognition or gratitude
- iShares (stock symbol TIP), Barclays TIPS Bond, an exchange-traded fund
- T.I.P., stands for Thumb, Index, Pinky, which are the three fingers that are held up to show "I Love You" in sign language.
- Square dance tip, a group of dances in square dancing
- Tag (game), an informal playground game involving chasing and touching
- Talent Identification Program, a gifted education program at Duke University
- Technological Institute of the Philippines, a school in the Philippines
- Terminal indecomposable past set in the study of causal structures of spacetime
- Tip (gambling), a betting information source
- Tipping face, the active part of a landfill
- Tippu Tip, notorious 19th century slave dealer
- The IATA airport code for Tripoli International Airport
- Trafficking in persons, otherwise known as human trafficking
- Typhoon Tip, the largest and most intense tropical cyclone on record
- TIP, Titre Interbancaire de Paiement
See also