| n. | 1. | 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. |
| 1. | (Bot.) A seed, as of an apple or orange. | |
| 1. | One of the conventional figures or "spots" on playing cards, dominoes, etc. | |
| v. i. | 1. | To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep. |
| Noun | 1. | pip - a disease of poultry |
| 2. | pip - a minor nonspecific ailment | |
| 3. | pip - a small hard seed found in some fruits | |
| 4. | pip - a mark on a playing card (shape depending on the suit) Synonyms: spot | |
| 5. | pip - a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface Synonyms: radar target, blip | |
| Verb | 1. | pip - kill by firing a missile Synonyms: shoot |
| 2. | pip - hit with a missile from a weapon | |
| 3. | pip - defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents" |
| (tool) | 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. |
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