English Dictionary

sip

/sɪp/

verb

(transitive) To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time. / (intransitive) To drink a small quantity. / To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. / (Scotland, US, dated) Alternative form of seep

She likes to sip her coffee in the morning.

意味（1）

(transitive) To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.

He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To drink a small quantity.

[She] rais'd it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping, offered to the next in place.

意味（3）

To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.

They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.

意味（4）

(Scotland, US, dated) Alternative form of seep

意味（5）

(figuratively) To consume slowly.

Sales of lightbulbs which sip electricity, and whose increased cost in the shops is easily paid for over their lifetime, used to double every year; in 1990/1991, they leapt sevenfold.