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Substantiivi

1. Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
2. (obsolete) A pippin, seed of any kind.
3. (finance, currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
4. One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
5. One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
6. (humorous, dated) Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
7. (military, public service) One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
8. (UK) A seed inside certain fleshy fruits, such as the stone (pit) of a stonefruit or the smaller seeds of an orange or apple.
9. A spot; a speck.
10. (US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
11. A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
12. (British, dated, World War I, signalese) P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
13. A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation

Verbi

1. (transitive) To remove the pips from.
2. (intransitive) To peep, to chirp.
3. (transitive) To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.
4. (ornithology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.
5. (transitive) To hit with a gunshot.