Meaning of 'whip' (Webster Dictionary)
- To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do
something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner.
- To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender
and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
- To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to
rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
- To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat;
as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a
perverse boy.
- To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with
sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
- To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip
wheat.
- To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a
whisk, fork, or the like.
- To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat;
to surpass.
- To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords
going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap;
-- often with about, around, or over.
- To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into
gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the
thread; as, to whip a ruffle.
- To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; --
with into, out, up, off, and the like.
- To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
- To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting
by overcasting it with small stuff.
- To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly,
the motion being that employed in using a whip.
- An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for
correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a
handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod.
- A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip.
- One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the
sails are spread.
- The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.
- A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light
bodies.
- The long pennant. See Pennant (a)
- A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.
- A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce
party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a
Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes
are needed.
- A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in
their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.
Meaning of 'whip' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
Example in sentence:- the whip raised a red welt
Meaning (2):
- defeat thoroughly
Example in sentence:- He mopped up the floor with his opponents
Meaning (3):
- beat severely with a whip or rod
Example in sentence:- The children were severely trounced;
- The teacher often flogged the students
Meaning (4):
- strike as if by whipping
Example in sentence:- The curtain whipped her face
Meaning (5):
- subject to harsh criticism
Example in sentence:- the professor scaled the students;
- The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday;
- your invectives scorched the community
Meaning (6):
- thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash
Example in sentence:- The tall grass whipped in the wind
Meaning (7):
- whip with or as if with a wire whisk
Definition
[ v. i.]