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sipe

/saɪp/

sipe noun: slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction.

Noun

sipe (plural sipes)

  1. (US) Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction.
  2. (UK, dialectal) A drain.

Verb

sipe (third-person singular simple present sipes, present participle siping, simple past and past participle siped)

  1. (US) To cut grooves in tires.
  2. (UK, intransitive) To drain, to filter through peat or reeds; to seep.

Proper noun capitalized: Sipe

Sipe (plural Sipes)

  1. A surname.

Forms of sipe

Noun
pluralsipes
Verb
third-person singular presentsipes
present participlesiping
past participlesiped
pastsiped
Proper noun
pluralSipes

Origin of sipe

From Old English sipian, related to seep. * around 888 AD, K Aelfred, translation of Boethius, Chapter 33, para.5 , : "Seo eorþe hit helt & be sumum dæle swilgþ, & for þam sype heo biþ geleht."

Words that rhyme with sipe

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Questions about sipe

What does sipe mean?
Sipe means slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction.
What part of speech is sipe?
Sipe can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce sipe?
Sipe is pronounced /saɪp/.
What is the plural of sipe?
The plural of sipe is sipes.

Words near sipe in the dictionary

  1. sipapu
  2. sipapus
  3. Siparia
  4. sipatrigine
  5. Sipaulovi
  6. sipe
  7. siped
  8. Sipek
  9. siperone
  10. sipes
  11. Sipeses

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