flipper vs toe

flipper

verb
  • To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water. 

noun
  • Television remote control, clicker. 

  • A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce. 

  • A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play. 

  • A kind of false tooth, usually temporary. 

  • A small flat used to support a larger one. 

  • Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit. 

  • Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin. 

  • In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming. 

  • A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming. 

  • A kitchen spatula. 

toe

verb
  • To touch, tap or kick with the toes. 

  • To furnish (a stocking, etc.) with a toe. 

  • To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to. 

  • To mishit a golf ball with the toe of the club. 

  • To fasten (a piece) by driving a fastener at a near-45-degree angle through the side (of the piece) into the piece to which it is to be fastened. 

noun
  • An advanced form of ballet primarily for the females, dancing ballet primarily using a Pointe shoe. 

  • An equivalent part in an animal. 

  • The upper end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead; as opposed to the heel (lower end). 

  • Each of the five digits on the end of the foot. 

  • Something resembling a toe, especially at the bottom or extreme end of something. 

  • An alignment of the wheels of a road vehicle, either positive (toe in), meaning the wheels are closer together at the front than at the back, or negative (toe out), the other way round. 

  • The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step. 

  • The long side of an angled cut. 

  • That part of a shoe or sock covering the toe. 

  • A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, such as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved. 

  • A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece. 

  • cameltoe 

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