Sap vs. Sip: What's the Difference?
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Sap
Sap is a fluid transported in xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant. These cells transport water and nutrients throughout the plant.
Sap is distinct from latex, resin, or cell sap; it is a separate substance, separately produced, and with different components and functions.Insect honeydew is called sap, particularly when it falls from trees, but is only the remains of eaten sap and other plant parts.
Sap (noun)
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
Sap (noun)
The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
Sap (noun)
Any juice.
Sap (noun)
Vitality.
Sap (noun)
a naive person; a simpleton
“milksop|saphead”
Sap (noun)
A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
Sap (noun)
A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
Sap (verb)
To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
Sap (verb)
To exhaust the vitality of.
Sap (verb)
To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
Sap (verb)
To wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
Sap (verb)
To pierce with saps.
Sap (verb)
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
Sap (verb)
To gradually weaken.
“to sap one’s conscience”
Sap (verb)
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
Sip (noun)
A small mouthful of drink
Sip (verb)
To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
Sip (verb)
To drink a small quantity.
Sip (verb)
To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
Sip (verb)
alternative form of seep
Sip (verb)
to consume slowly — in contrast to faster consumption, in contrast to zero consumption
Sap Illustrations
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