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siping

Syllables: Si·ping

siping is the present participle and gerund of sipe.

Meaning of sipe

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.

See all 5 meanings of sipe

Proper noun capitalized: Siping

Siping

  1. A prefecture-level city of Jilin, China.
    • In 2015, four teachers at a RYB Education kindergarten in Siping, northeast China, were charged with using sewing needles to jab more than 20 children on their heads, mouths and limbs, supposedly as punishment.2017 November 24, Chris Buckley, Karoline Kan, “Beijing Kindergarten Is Accused of Abuse, and Internet Erupts in Fury”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2017...

Synonyms of siping

Forms of siping

alternative formSsu-p'ing

Origin of siping

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 四平 (Sìpíng).

Questions about siping

What does siping mean?
Siping means a prefecture-level city of Jilin, China.
What is siping the present participle and gerund of?
Siping is the present participle and gerund of sipe.
What part of speech is siping?
Siping is a proper noun.

Words near siping in the dictionary

  1. siphuncules
  2. siphunculi
  3. siphunculus
  4. Sipibo
  5. sipid
  6. siping
  7. Sipka
  8. Siple
  9. Siples
  10. siplizumab
  11. Sipocot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: siping (page history and authors); Siping (page history and authors); sipe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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