how to pronounce sip

/ˈsɪp/

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sip is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of sip in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… if I take this sip a sip of this right …”

meanings of sip

verb:

To drink a small quantity.
To consume slowly — in contrast to faster consumption, in contrast to zero consumption.
To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
Alternative form of seep.
To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.

noun:

A small mouthful of drink.

name:

Initialism of Supplementary Ideographic Plane, the third plane (Plane 2) in Unicode, with 65,536 codepoints (from U+20000 through U+2FFFF) mainly used for less-common CJK characters.

sip frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word sip occurs in english on average 10 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics sip can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that sip can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;