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Dressy shoe
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wingtip
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Word definitions for wingtip in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also wing-tip , 1867, "tip of a wing" (originally of insects; by 1870 of birds), from wing (n.) + tip (n.1). Of airplane wings from 1909. As a type of shoe with a back-curving toe cap suggestive of a bird's wingtip, from 1928. Related: Wing-tipped .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The extreme tip of the wing of an aircraft or bird 2 A part of a shoe, often with brogueing that extends backwards on both sides from the toe
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ From wingtip to wingtip it can reach 2.4m. ▪ He considered this action to have been successful, as the right wingtip struck the ground first, followed by the nose. ▪ He wore polished wingtips and an overcoat, and she a pink ski ...
Usage examples of wingtip.
In quick succession she activated wingtip fences and leading-edge slats, dropped the first increment of flaps, and armed hover blasters.
Stormwings lined up in the air wingtip to wingtip and darted at a group of crows to cut them in half.
Dowornobb sat, glued to the window, watching the jagged, snowcapped peaks drift by, some just off their wingtips.
Scientists have tethered birds in wind tunnels, photographed them with high-speed motion picture cameras, and found that on the upstroke, wings rotate back and up, with the leading edge on top and wingtip feathers open to decrease airflow resistance.
She tied the wings carefully to a tether rope, then walked out to a wingtip and began to fold them up.
Rootabaga Stories and More Rootabaga Stories are best suited as read-aloud books for very young readers, who will probably have more patience for characters with names like Dippy the Wisp, Rags Habakuk, Shush Shush, Snoo Foo, Bixie Bimber, and Wingtip the Spick than their older siblings will.
Cuffs on their trousers and great big pebble-grain wingtips with cleated Vibram soles.
He wore a pale raincoat over a dark three-piece suit, black wingtip shoes with heels that tapped sharply as he walked.
The PAVE HAMMER, formerly one of the Hammerheads' antismuggling aircraft and still sporting its distinctive Department of Border Security high-visibility orange markings, lifted off from the interstate rest-stop parking lot and leaped into the sky, rotating its wingtip engine nacelles so the two large rotors were pointing at a 45-degree angle for more forward speed.
The image he saw was a haberdasher's triumphcrisp white djellaba gleaming with optical brighteners, dark cloak discreetly bordered with kaleidotape, silver dagger with a jeweled pommel stuck in his sash, silk foulard headcloth from Harrod's of Tharsis, English leather wingtips.
They were so low that it seemed the bull might grab a wingtip with his reaching trunk, and Craig could clearly make out the wet exudation from the glands behind his eyes.
Th onlessly as the Piper made a steep turn, with down expressi one wingtip pointed likea knife directly at where Craig lay.
Gold wingtips showed above the outer wall of the Court and the wind from her backstrokes flung up dust, dirt and the skirts of the ladies nearest the Gate.
Gold wingtips showed above the outer wall of the Court and the wind from her backstrokes flung up dust, dirt and the skirts of the ladies nearest the Gate.
From his vantage point twenty feet out from the colonel's wingtip, Jake could see every move Bartow made in the cockpit, could see him pull his head aft a few inches and eye the computer readouts on the panel just to the right the radar screen, could see him glance down occasionally, referring to the notes on his kneeboard.