Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Pip \Pip\, n. [Formerly pippin, pepin. Cf. {Pippin}.] (Bot.)
A seed, as of an apple or orange.
Pip \Pip\, n. [Perh. for pick, F. pique a spade at cards, a
pike. Cf. {Pique}.]
One of the conventional figures or ``spots'' on playing
cards, dominoes, etc. --Addison.
Pip \Pip\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Pipping}.] [See {Peep}.]
To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.
To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg. --Boyle.
Pip \Pip\, n. [OE. pippe, D. pip, or F. p['e]pie; from LL.
pipita, fr. L. pituita slime, phlegm, rheum, in fowls, the
pip. Cf. {Pituite}.]
A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness,
discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of
mucus in the mouth, forming a ``scale'' on the tongue. By
some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the
disease being called roup by them.
Source : WordNet®
pip
n 1: a disease of poultry
2: a minor nonspecific ailment
3: a small hard seed found in some fruits
4: a mark on a playing card (shape depending on the suit) [syn:
{spot}]
5: a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a
reflecting surface [syn: {blip}, {radar target}]
[also: {pipping}, {pipped}]
pip
v 1: kill by firing a missile [syn: {shoot}]
2: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: {shoot}, {hit}]
3: defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his
opponents" [syn: {worst}, {mop up}, {whip}, {rack up}]
[also: {pipping}, {pipped}]
Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
PIP
Peripheral Interchange Program.
A program on {CP/M}, {RSX-11}, {RSTS/E}, {TOPS-10}, and {OS/8}
(derived from a utility on the {PDP-6}) that was used for file
copying (and in OS/8 and RT-11 for just about every other file
operation you might want to do). It is said that when the
program was written, during the development of the PDP-6 in
1963, it was called ATLATL ("Anything, Lord, to Anything,
Lord"; this played on the Nahuatl word "atlatl" for a
spear-thrower, with connotations of utility and primitivity
that were no doubt quite intentional).
See also {BLT}, {dd}, {cat}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1995-03-28)