(a.) Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert.
(a.) Noiseless; stealthy.
(v. i.) To step or walk on tiptoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Verdict Black Hawk Down tiptoes carefully around the facts when it deals with US troops, but its interpretation of history is flimsy, one-sided, and politically questionable.
(2) A short, easy labor was sought through coconut milk and flower-based medicines as well as practices such as working hard and fast, not walking on tiptoe, and finishing eating before others.
(3) No significant changes were seen at the evaluation of the elevation and dependency test and performance using tiptoeing test.
(4) He leaves a freshly lit cigarette in an ashtray and the two men tiptoe away.
(5) Moreover, as the Commission tiptoes around saying, most electoral fraud is localised in particular wards in which south Asian voters are often concentrated.
(6) Cissé tiptoes around the fresh produce laid out on the ground in the market stalls.
(7) The average venous pressure drop during tiptoeing was increased from 31.6% to 50.9% (P less tan 0.01), and the time required for return to the resting venous pressure level increased from an average 6 seconds to 12.9 seconds (P = 0.01).
(8) Even as Carter delicately tiptoed around the Apple-FBI clash, he urged continued “partnership” with Silicon Valley and warned against China’s “intent to require backdoors to all new technologies” – a point Apple has made to underscore the unintended consequences of the FBI’s push.
(9) After tiptoeing around Russian sensibilities during the cold war, taking a neutral position on key issues, Finland was plunged into deep recession once the Soviet system collapsed.
(10) But with the MoD budget under huge stress, and the military having made a dog's breakfast of some procurement projects, the defence secretary, Philip Hammond , has been tiptoeing towards giving responsibility for running DE&S to a private company.
(11) After tiptoe exercise without stockings deep venous peak flow velocity increased in healthy patients and in patients with deep venous insufficiency by a mean of 103% in the popliteal vein and 46% in the common femoral vein (p less than 0.01).
(12) There was no pretence of tiptoeing around the controversy; rather, it was embraced with characteristic relish at the launch of an authorised biography of Tutu, amid a lighthearted mix of speeches and performances by the Soweto Gospel Choir .
(13) How is it that some people can sleep through sirens, blaring music or even an earthquake, while others will wake up if anyone so much as tiptoes into the room?
(14) I wouldn't have been tiptoeing around anybody but I felt it could have been awkward for one or two players I was maybe working with or commentating on, and I didn't want that issue."
(15) Without ever criticising their incoming commander-in-chief, the officers tiptoed around the departure from traditional foreign policy that Trump represents.
(16) That's how he was and he'd tiptoe after the fly until at last he pounced and squashed it.
(17) They stand on tiptoes to peer through vehicle windows in an attempt to charm drivers out of a dollar or two.
(18) The movie tiptoes far too politely around the stark historical facts of the era in which it unfolds, and its Nazis are little more than generic school bullies and officious creeps in uniforms.
(19) Preparatory EMG activity in the quadriceps was entirely missing (n = 9), resulting in knee bending at the unsuccessful attempt to rise on tiptoes.
(20) Five principle methods of Qigong were practiced as fellows: (1) Regulating respiration consciously to tonify Qi; (2) ameliorating the digestive function on tiptoe; (3) holding one's head for tranquilizing; (4) massaging the loins to nourish the essence; (5) at one's ease to regulate the circulation of Qi and blood.
Tiptop
Definition:
(n.) The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.
(a.) Very excellent; most excellent; perfect.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the technology is not quite tiptop yet: LG's flying saucer-shaped vacuum cleaner is more entertaining than it is functional, and there is no robot monitoring the contents of its smart fridge – a list still has to be laboriously updated by hand.