tip-up

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Inner city high rise construction is entirely different from tip-up and bolt together single-story box stores in the suburbs.

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A device used in ice fishing, having a flag that is raised to alert the angler when the bait below the ice is taken.

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noun

A device used in ice fishing, having a flag that is raised to alert the angler when the bait below the ice is taken.

adjective

(of a seat) Designed to tilt to a vertical position when not in use, either manually or of its own accord.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for tip-up.

noun

A device used in ice fishing, having a flag that is raised to alert the angler when the bait below the ice is taken.

adjective

(of a seat) Designed to tilt to a vertical position when not in use, either manually or of its own accord.

Example sentences

Inner city high rise construction is entirely different from tip-up and bolt together single-story box stores in the suburbs.

The other one had a fairly unimpressive and old tip-up tower outside with no antenna.

Air cooled chillers are fine for a commercial office building or tip-up warehouse, but data centers need to remove an enormous amount of heat.

Block, steel stud, brick, wood stud, precast tip-up; both drop ceiling and hardlid.

Building concrete forms and cutting/tying rebar together takes way less labor than building a boat hull out of wood or steel, there’s a reason every warehouse built these days is a tip-up constructed from prefabricated wall sections.

If it collapses, lenders will own (in general) giant tip-up buildings with two separate substations tied to two different utility circuits, a shitload of generators and UPSes, a shitload of chillers and cooling towers, and miles of cable tray.