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Definition of Tiptoe
1. Adverb. On tiptoe or as if on tiptoe. "Standing tiptoe"
2. Adjective. Walking on the tips of ones's toes so as to make no noise. "Moving with tiptoe steps"
3. Verb. Walk on one's toes. "The children tiptoe to the playground"
4. Noun. The tip of a toe.
Definition of Tiptoe
1. n. The end, or tip, of the toe.
2. a. Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert.
3. v. i. To step or walk on tiptoe.
Definition of Tiptoe
1. Verb. To walk quietly when only the tips of the toes touch the ground. (defdate from late 14th c.) ¹
2. Verb. Alternative spelling of tip-toe. ¹
3. Noun. The tips of one's toes collectively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tiptoe
1. to walk on the tips of one's toes [v -TOED, -TOEING, -TOES]
Medical Definition of Tiptoe
1. 1. Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert. "Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops." (Shak) "Above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory." (Byron) 2. Noiseless; stealthy. "With tiptoe step." Tiptoe mirth, the highest degree of mirth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tiptoe
Literary usage of Tiptoe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1890)
"zW, and in extreme tiptoe T = 1.37 W. Also, that the higher the foot is raised
on tiptoe, the less is the tension on the tendon. ..."
2. A Treasury of Canadian Verse: With Brief Biographical Notes by Theodore Harding Rand (1900)
"Is there a God who remembers That we have our nights as our noons ? Our dark and
our dismal Decembers As well as our garden-gay Junes ? ON tiptoe ..."
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