wing tip

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noun

Also wingtip . the extreme outer edge of an airplane wing.

a toecap, often with a perforated pattern, having a point at the center and a piece at each side extending back along the top and sides.

a style of shoe with such a toe.

the portion of a bird's folded wing formed by the part of the primary feathers extending beyond the secondary feathers.

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Origin of wing tip

First recorded in 1870–75

Words nearby wing tip

wing shot, wing skid, wingspan, wingspread, wingsuit, wing tip, wing-weary, wingy, win hands down, Winifred, Winiwarter-Buerger disease

How to use wing tip in a sentence

It has added aerodynamic fins on wing tips, used only one engine when taxiing on runways and bought planes that weigh less.
United Airlines aims to suck carbon dioxide from the friendly skies|Steven Mufson|January 12, 2021|Washington Post
To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
Harry Shearer on The Dangerous Business of Satire|Lloyd Grove|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
There is, however, a separate wing of AQAP designed to inspire their followers to conduct attacks against the West.
U.S. Spies See Al Qaeda Fingerprints on Paris Massacre|Shane Harris, Nancy A. Youssef|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He sometimes surmised that it was because he was too outspokenly identified with the diminished liberal wing of the party.
Ed Brooke: The Senate's Civil Rights Pioneer and Prophet of a Post-Racial America|John Avlon|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Limbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.
Rush Limbaugh’s Fear of a Black James Bond|Dean Obeidallah|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In other words, this is a very small vast-right-wing-conspiracy.
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Done, says he, why let fifty of our men advance, and flank them on each wing.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)|Daniel Defoe
His idea was that there would be ample time later to order a concentration on either wing or on the centre.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
The best pipet is a small glass tube which has been drawn out at one end to a tip with rather small opening.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Tip wore leaky boots all last winter, but when spring came he bought Mrs. Pulsifer a sewing machine.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
Mrs. Kaye's expressive eyes, which had dwelt on Isabel with flattering attention, fell to the tip of her cigarette.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton

British Dictionary definitions for wing tip

wing tip

noun

the outermost edge of a wing

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