There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
TIPS
Noun
tips
plural of tip
Verb
tips
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tip
Anagrams
• ISTP, PITs, PTIs, SPIT, pist, pits, sipt, spit, stip
Noun
TIPS (plural TIPSs)
(medicine) Initialism of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.
Anagrams
• ISTP, PITs, PTIs, SPIT, pist, pits, sipt, spit, stip
Source: Wiktionary
TIP
Tip, n. Etym: [Akin to D. & Dan. tip, LG. & Sw. tipp, G. zipfel, and probably to E. tap a plug, a pipe.]
1. The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear. To the very tip of the nose. Shak.
2. An end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.
3. (Hat Manuf.)
Definition: A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
4. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
5. Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
Tip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tipping.]
Definition: To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver. With truncheon tipped with iron head. Hudibras. Tipped with jet, Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press. Thomson.
Tip, v. t. Etym: [Cf. LG. tippen to tap, Sw. tippa, and E. tap to strike gently.]
1. To strike slightly; to tap. A third rogue tips me by the elbow. Swift.
2. To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
3. To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart. To tip off, to pour out, as liquor.
– To tip over, to overturn.
– To tip the wink, to direct a wink; to give a hint or suggestion by, or as by, a wink. [Slang] Pope.
– To tip up, to turn partly over by raising one end.
Tip, v. i.
Definition: To fall on, or incline to, one side. Bunyan. To tip off, to fall off by tipping.
Tip, n. Etym: [See Tip to strike slightly, and cf. Tap a slight blow.]
1. A light touch or blow; a tap.
2. A gift; a douceur; a fee. [Colloq.]
3. A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like. [Sporting Cant]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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