hip

Noun

hip (plural hips)

1. (anatomy) The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.

Synonyms:

• (all colloquial or slang): cool, groovy

3 letters in word "hip": H I P.

Anagrams of hip:

• phi

Words found within hip:

hi ph pi

• Definitions:
• either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh pelvis: the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum the fruit of a rose plant hep: informed about the latest trends
• Hip is a slang term, an adjective meaning "fashionably current", referring to someone who is conversant with or deeply involved in a particular trend or subject. "Hip", like "cool", does not refer to one particular quality. What is hip is in constant change. ...
• The roof is the top covering of a building intended to shed water off the building and to prevent it from accumulating on top. To achieve this goal, roofs may be highly pitched (sloped) or low sloped in form. Low sloped roofs are commonly found on industrial/commercial type structures. ...
• In anatomy, the hip is the bony projection of the femur which is known as the greater trochanter, and the overlying muscle and fat. ...
• HIP is an acronym for "Hypothetic computer", which was developed for the purpose of the book Arhitektura ra?unalniških sistemov by Dušan Kodek. It is a modern load/store RISC central processing unit with 32 general-purpose registers. ...
• The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides of a roof.
• The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes. Runs from the ridge to the eaves.
• The thigh joint and large, muscular first joint of the hind leg.
• The line formed where two adjacent sloping planes of a roof meet.
• The fleshy, berry-like red or orange fruit of a rose.
• A catalogue of 118 218 stars surveyed by the Hipparcos satellite launched in 1989. It collected the parallaxes of these stars providing accurate distances to tens of thousands of stars within 1000 light years.
• Like a spine, but with a distinct takeoff ramp and landing zone
• The process of using high hydrostatic pressure and high temperature to compress fine particles into coherent parts.
• This shape is used to create hip roofs and is also referred to as a Step up Hip Truss.
• Historically Informed Performance - see period.
• special term for a rose fruit (berry)
• diffusion bonding of ingredient materials with application of hydrostatic pressure by means of a gas, at temperatures high enough to effect concurrent sintering of the matrix, which for metal matrices is generally above the matrix recrystallisation temperature.
• Seed pods of a rose; considered a desirable feature for providing interest after bloom. The finest hips are set from 'Old Roses' (roses originated before the Modern Era which began with the introduction of Hybrid Teas).
• Keenly aware of or knowledgeable about life's developments, especially in the arts. "Hipness is what it is. But sometimes hipness is what it ain't..."
• The external edge at the junction between two roof surfaces.
• On a roof which has slopes on all surfaces, ie like a pyramid, the long sloping ridge is called the hip and inside, the rafter is the hip rafter. Back to the top
• Line of adjoining sections of pitched roof at external angle of building
• bright reddish orange fruit of roses, particularly species roses, as Rosa rugosa. It contains vitamin C and is used to make a tea, and for jams and syrups.
• The outside angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides of a roof that have their supports running in different directions.
• side corner of two perpendicular roofs meeting on angle
• the convex sloping intersection of two roof sections. The opposite of a "valley".
• is derived from Wolof hepi, meaning "to be aware of what is going on".
• The line of intersection of two sloping roof planes with walls that are not parallel to each other.

• hints ←
• hintingly ←
• hinting ←
• hip
• → hipbath
• → hipbaths
• → hipbone