"tongue tip" can be used in written English as a part of a sentence.
It refers to the front, pointed end of the tongue. It is often used in the context of speech and articulation. Example: "The speech therapist instructed her client to place the tip of his tongue behind his upper front teeth when saying the 'th' sound."
Tongue tip trills occur in some forms of Scottish English in words such as rye and ire.
Big drops splashed on her sharp nose; she licked them from stiffening lips between crystalline teeth, with a still-flexible tongue tip, and tasted skywater, mineral and delicious.
The tongue tip and blade, the uvula, and the lips are the only articulators than can be used in this way.
But the dog tongue tip penetrates the liquid a little more deeply than the cat tongue, causing a messy spray around the tongue during withdrawal, Dr. Crompton said.
A tap is produced if one articulator is thrown against another, as when the loosely held tongue tip makes a single tap against the upper teeth or the alveolar ridge.
Thus, Ossetic has a series of ejective sounds (uttered with a simultaneous glottal stop) on the pattern of the unrelated Caucasian languages; and a number of Iranian languages have a retroflex series (produced with the tongue tip curled up toward the roof of the mouth) as a result of contact with Indo-Aryan languages.
"We think that these tongue tips could be used as models for innovations in industrial design," she said.
As the bird pulls its tongue in past the surface of the liquid, the tongue tips come together, and the lamellae roll inward, trapping the nectar.
During these motions, subjects were asked to position their tongue tips sequentially in the maxillary right second molar tooth, the maxillary left second molar tooth, the hard palate, the floor of the mouth, and near the maxillary central incisor.
"You got a secret worth killing for, Mr. Glass?" Cleaver grinned teasingly, showing a pointed pink tongue-tip.
So, why did I have to be so churlish as to enquire of our guide: "How many canal boats, exactly, have used this since it was all opened in 2002?" She had the figure at her tongue-tip: 4,000.
