sipe

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/saɪp/

noun

Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction.

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Meanings

sipe1

nounsipe (plural sipes)

plural sipes

  1. USSlit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction.
  2. UKdialectalA drain.
verbsipe (third-person singular simple present sipes, present participle siping, simple past and past participle siped)

present singular third person sipes · participle present siping · participle past siped · past siped

  1. USTo cut grooves in tires.
  2. UKintransitiveTo drain, to filter through peat or reeds; to seep.

Sipe2

proper nounSipe (plural Sipes)

plural Sipes

  1. A surname.

Origin

From Old English sipian, related to seep. * around 888 AD, K Aelfred, translation of Boethius, Chapter 33, para.5 , : "Seo eorþe hit helt & be sumum dæle swilgþ, & for þam sype heo biþ geleht."

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Translations

Czech lamela
  • lamelaTranslations
Spanish entalladura, microsurco
  • entalladuraTranslations
  • microsurcoTranslations

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with sipe

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Anagrams

piesSeip
Cite this entry
APA

sipe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sipe

MLA

“sipe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sipe. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sipe,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sipe.

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