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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the tip of a toe;


VERB (1)

1. walk on one's toes;
[syn: tiptoe, tip, tippytoe]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. walking on the tips of ones's toes so as to make no noise;
- Example: "moving with tiptoe steps"


ADVERB (1)

1. on tiptoe or as if on tiptoe;
- Example: "standing tiptoe"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, n.; pl. Tiptoes. The end, or tip, of the toe. [1913 Webster] He must . . . stand on his typtoon [tiptoes]. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] To be a tiptoe, To stand a tiptoe, To stand on tiptoe or To be on tiptoe, to be awake or alive to anything; to be roused; to be eager or alert; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, a. 1. Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert. [1913 Webster] Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory. --Byron. [1913 Webster] 2. Noiseless; stealthy. "With tiptoe step." --Cowper. [1913 Webster] Tiptoe mirth, the highest degree of mirth. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, v. i. To step or walk on tiptoe. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tiptoe adv 1: on tiptoe or as if on tiptoe; "standing tiptoe" adj 1: walking on the tips of ones's toes so as to make no noise; "moving with tiptoe steps" n 1: the tip of a toe v 1: walk on one's toes [syn: tiptoe, tip, tippytoe]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

81 Moby Thesaurus words for "tiptoe": above, abovestairs, airward, all fours, aloft, aloof, atiptoe, be careful, be cautious, couch, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, go on tiptoe, grovel, gumshoe, gumshoeing, high, high up, in the air, in the clouds, inch, inch along, lay wait, lie in wait, lurk, make haste slowly, nightwalk, nightwalking, on all fours, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on tippytoe, on tiptoe, over, overhead, pad, padding, prowl, prowling, pussyfoot, pussyfooting, repent, reptant, reptatorial, reptile, scrabble, scramble, shadow, sidle, sidling, skulk, skyward, slink, slinking, snake, snaking, sneak, sneaking, stalk, steal, steal along, stealing, straight up, take it easy, think twice, tip, tippytoe, tiptoeing, to the zenith, toe, up, upstairs, upward, upwards, walk on eggshells, worm, worm along, worming