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[ adjective ] having a tip; or having a tip as specified (used in combination)

Examples

"a rubber-tipped cane"

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

Pale yellow snapdragons that by pinching could be made to bite ; seed-pods of the balsams that snapped like fire-crackers at a touch ; red and yellow columbines whose round tipped spurs were picked_off and eaten for the honey in them ; morning-glory buds which could be so grasped and squeezed that they burst like a blown-up paper_bag ; bright flowers from the trumpet_vine that made `` gloves '' on the ends of ten waggling fingers .

2
[ adjective ] departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal

Examples

"the leaning tower of Pisa" "the headstones were tilted"

Related terms

inclined

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