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TIP

(Trouble In Paradise) A freeware program from Gibson Research Corporation, Laguna Hills, CA (www.grc.com) that checks the health of Zip and Jaz drives. See click of death. See also tip and ring.


tip1
1. a payment given for services in excess of the standard charge; gratuity
2. a piece of inside information, esp in betting or investing

tip2
a glancing hit in cricket

tip [tip]
(design engineering)
A piece of material secured to and differing from a cutter tooth or blade.
(electricity)
The contacting part at the end of a phone plug.
(electronics)
A small protuberance on the envelope of an electron tube, resulting from the closing of the envelope after evacuation.

TIP
1.TIP - Texas Instruments Pascal.
2.TIP - A Unix program for interactive communication via serial lines.

Unix manual page: tip(1).


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They pack flat, tip the scales at only 26 ounces when empty, but weigh up to 16 pounds per dumbbell when filled with water.
The last component that can tip the scales in favor of change is your desire to dance.
The new rules allow the Department of Homeland Security to allocate 60 percent of anti-terror funds based on risk factors - rather than using a previous population-based formula that aided smaller states - and he predicted that could tip the scales in the Golden State's favor.
 
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