Definition of "lip" in Anglais

noun

1. (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.

2. (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.

3. (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.

4. (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.

   • Don’t give me any lip!

5. The edge of a high spot of land.

6. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.

7. (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.

8. (botany) A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.

9. (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.

10. (music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.

11. (colloquial) Clipping of lipstick.

    • I put on some red lip and a casual print dress.

verb

1. (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).

2. (transitive, figuratively, of an object) To touch lightly.

3. (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.

4. (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.

5. (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.

   • 1920, W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, Chapter 9, p. 242, It was a tiny stone house whose front window lipped the passing sidewalk where ever tramped the feet of black soldiers marching home.

6. (transitive) To utter verbally.

7. (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.

8. (sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.

9. (transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.