Sap vs. Sip

Sapnoun

(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

Sapnoun

(uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

Sapnoun

Any juice.

Sapnoun

(figurative) Vitality.

Sapnoun

a naive person; a simpleton

Sapnoun

A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

Sapnoun

(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Sapverb

(transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).

Sapverb

To exhaust the vitality of.

Sapverb

To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

Sapverb

(transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

Sapverb

To pierce with saps.

Sapverb

(transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

Sapverb

(transitive) To gradually weaken.

Sapverb

(intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

Sapnoun

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

Sapnoun

The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

Sapnoun

A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.

Sapnoun

A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Sapverb

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

Sapverb

To pierce with saps.

Sapverb

To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

Sapverb

To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

Sapnoun

a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant

Sapnoun

a person who lacks good judgment

Sapnoun

a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

Sapverb

deplete;

Sapverb

excavate the earth beneath

Sap

Sap is a fluid transported in xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant. These cells transport water and nutrients throughout the plant.

Sipnoun

A small mouthful of drink

Sipverb

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

Sipverb

(intransitive) To drink a small quantity.

Sipverb

To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.

Sipverb

alternative form of seep

Sipverb

(figurative) to consume slowly — (usually) in contrast to faster consumption, (sometimes) in contrast to zero consumption

Sipverb

To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea.

Sipverb

To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.

Sipverb

To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.

Sipverb

To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.

Sipnoun

The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.

Sipnoun

A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.

Sipnoun

a small drink

Sipverb

drink in sips;