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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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Lutter tipped the scales at 186 1/2 pounds in his final attempt to make the required weight Friday evening.
Now known as the Jinniushan specimen, she stood roughly 5 feet, 5-1/2, inches tall and tipped the scales at 173 pounds, the three anthropologists estimate.
When she tipped the scales at 300 pounds, she decided to face her problem head on.
 
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