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Meanings of lip in English
Pouring projection formed by eversion of the rim of the mouth or spout of a vessel.
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Examples for "rim"
Examples for "rim"
1
There is no longer any need to continue toward the rim wall.
2
Heroin goes mainly to China and Pacific rim countries such as Australia.
3
Japan lies in the shadow, away on the rim of the world.
4
At last he gained the rim of the nest and looked in.
5
Why did her father lead her away outside the rim of trees?
1
The water had crept to a point just below the barrel's brim.
2
The bullet should penetrate the brim just where it covered the forehead.
3
The milk was within the twentieth of an inch of the brim.
4
He should arrive full to the brim with new facts and ideas.
5
The dark tunnel of the Long Walk filled suddenly to the brim.
Usage of lip in English
1
The resolution of the problem requires more than lip service, he added.
2
Too often in the past, lip service was paid to consumer interests.
3
Biting her lip, the young woman immediately set her mind to work.
4
It brings people a new hope, less of a stiff upper lip.
5
Oh, she really didn't want to talk about his lip right now.
6
Destiny Jones: I want to continue to stay in the lip lane.
7
Especially from the knight's point of view. Munoz bit his lower lip.
8
Paying lip service to the concept isn't enough to make it work.
9
All cases were children with cleft lip with or without cleft palate.
10
All we have, after 50 years, is lip service to human rights.
11
I did note, however, her lower lip puffed out in a pout.
12
His eye lightened; his lip became compressed; he advanced to meet them.
13
Lamar adjusted a lip full of tobacco and said, Doing all right.
14
The simple but sinister question made Finian curl his lip in disgust.
15
Hubert looked down again; his lip wrinkled up in a little sneer.
16
Dominique McMullan, journalist 1 A statement lip distracts from a thousand sins.
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Lip through the time
Lip across language varieties
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United States of America
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Australia
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