whip

Pronunciation: [hwip]

Average Rank: 8916

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 鞭子, 抽打, 车夫, 搅拌器 vt. 鞭打, 搅拌, 煽动, 召集, 仓促制成 vi. 拍击, 急走, 抽打

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping
  • n. a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline
  • n. a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit
  • n. (golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE
Exam Tags: cet4 cet6 ky ielts
Word Forms:
Plural: whips
Past: whipped
Present Participle: whipping
Past Participle: whipped
3rd Person: whips

Word Frequency Rankings

TV & Movie Scripts
#2477

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 75.2% (Top 75.2% most frequent)
75.2%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

Project Gutenberg
#4270

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 57.3% (Top 57.3% most frequent)
57.3%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

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