The tip of the iceberg

Definition

tip 1 / tÇp / n (က) အဖ်ား။ အစြန္း။ ထိပ္။ the tips of one's fingers/ toes ❍ the tip of one's nose ❍ the tip of an animal's tail/ a bird's wing ❍ walk to the northern tip of the island. See also FINGERTIP (ခ) ထိပ္။ အစြပ္။ the tip of an arrow/ a billiard cue ❍ a walking-stick with a rubber tip. See also FELT-TIP PEN, FILTER TIP v ( -pp- ) ~ sth (with sth) (usu passive) (အဖ်ားကို) လူးသည္၊ စြပ္သည္၊ တပ္သည္။ The table-legs were tipped with rubber. ❍ a diamond-tipped drill ❍ The tribes tip their spears with poison. ❏ on the tip of one's tongue [ IDM ] ပါးစပ္ဖ်ား ေလးတြင္ (ေမ့ေနသည္)။ His name's on the tip of my tongue, but I just can't think of it. ❏ the tip of the iceberg [ IDM ] ျပႆနာ ထုထည္ႀကီး၏ တစ္စြန္းတစ္စမွ်။ Over 100 burglaries are reported every month, and that's just the tip of the iceberg (ie many more occur but are not reported). tip 2 /tÇp/ v ( -pp- ) ၁။ (က) ~ sth (up/ over) ေစာင္းေထာင္ေစသည္။ ေမွာက္သည္။ tip up a glass ❍ She tipped over a chair in her rush to leave. ❍ Careful! You'll tip the boat over (ie turn it upside down). ❍ ( fig ) These tax increases could tip the economy into recession. (ခ) ~ (up/ over) ေမွာက္သည္။ The glass tipped over and crashed to the floor. ၂။ (က) ေမွာက္သည္။ ငိုက္ခ်သည္။ Tip the box up (ie upside down) and empty it. ❍ He tipped his hat down over his forehead. (ခ) ငိုက္သည္ (သို႔) လန္သည္။ The front seat tips forward/ back. ၃။ ( Brit ) ေမွာက္သည္။ သြန္သည္။ ဟပ္ထိုး ဟပ္ထိုးျဖစ္သည္။ No rubbish to be tipped here/ No tipping (eg as a notice). ❍ He tipped the dirty water down the drain. ❍ The train stopped abruptly, nearly tipping me out of my seat. ၄။ (က) ပြတ္သည္။ ခတ္သည္။ The ball just tipped (the edge of) his racket. (ခ) ပုတ္(ထုတ္)သည္။ The goalkeeper tipped the ball over the bar. n ( Brit ) ၁။ အမိႈက္ပစ္သည့္ေနရာ။ the municipal refuse tip ❍ take a broken old refrigerator to the tip. Compare DUMP n ၁ ၂။ ( infml ) ႂကြက္သိုက္။ Their house is an absolute tip. ❏ tip the balance/ scale [ IDM ] (ဆံုးျဖတ္ႏိုင္ရန္) မဲတင္းေပး သည္။ Her greater experience tipped the balance in her favour and she got the job. ❏ tipper lorry (also tipper truck ) ( Brit ) ( US dump truck ) n ဝန္တင္ကက္အိမ္ တစ္ဖက္စြန္းကိုျမႇင့္၍ သြန္ထုတ္ႏိုင္ ေသာ ထရပ္ကား။ tip 3 /tÇp/ n ၁။ သဒၶာေၾကး။ ေဘာက္ဆူး။ He left a tip under his plate. ၂။ (က) လက္ေတြ႕အသံုးက်ေသာ အႀကံေပးစကား။ အႀကံျပဳခ်က္။ a handy tip for removing grass stains from clothing ❍ useful tips on how to prepare for the exam. (ခ) အရိပ္အႁမြက္ နိမိတ္ျပစကား။ တစ္။ a hot (ie very good) tip for the Derby. v ( -pp- ) ၁။ ေဘာက္ဆူးေပးသည္။ ဆုခ်သည္။ tip the taxi-driver 50p. ၂။ ~ sb/sth (as sth/to do sth) အရိပ္အႁမြက္ ေျပာသည္။ တစ္ေပးသည္။ နိမိတ္ေျပးသည္။ တစ္ေျပးသည္။ tip the winner (ie name the winner of a race or contest before it takes place) ❍ He has been widely tipped as the President's successor/ to succeed the President. ❏ tip sb off [ PHRV ] ( infml ) သတင္းေပးသည္။ He tipped off the police about the robbery. ❏ tip-off n သတင္းေပးခ်က္။ Acting on a tip-off (from an informant), the police raided the gang's hide out. ❏ tip sb the wink [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) မ်က္ရိပ္ျပသည္။ I don't want him to know I'm here ___ please tip me the wink when he's gone.

Examples

1. [tip of] : The tip of your nose/finger
2. The southern tip of the island
3. There was a rubber tip on the end of her stick.
4. [leave/give a tip] : Shall we leave a tip for the waiter?
5. [get a tip] : When I first started driving a taxi I didn’t get very good tips.
6. [tip on] : The booklet gives some good tips on getting the most out of your software.
7. [tip on] : I’ve got a good tip on a horse in the Derby.
8. [give someone a tip] : The police were given a tip on where they might find the killer.
9. [a hot tip] : Occasionally my stockbroker comes up with a hot tip for me.
10. Sorry
11. the flat’s a real tip at the moment.