ON TIPTOE

Definition: ON TIPTOE

ON TIPTOE

1. To be awake or alive to anything; to be roused; to be eager or alert; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Expectation

Adjective: expectant; expecting; Verb: in expectation; Noun: on the watch; (vigilant); open-eyed, open-mouthed, in wide-eyed anticipation; agape, gaping, all agog; on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation; aux aguets; ready; curious; looking forward to.

Height

Verb: be high; Adjective: tower, soar, command; hover, hover over, fly over;orbit, be in orbit; cap, culminate; overhang, hang over, impend, beetle, bestride, ride, mount; perch, surmount; cover; overtop; (be superior); stand on tiptoe.

Adverb: on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind; upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high.

Crosswords: ON TIPTOE

Terror on Tiptoe (1936)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Hearing no sound, he supposed that Fantine was asleep, went in softly, and approached the bed on tiptoe.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "ON TIPTOE": stand on tiptoe ♦ to be on tiptoe ♦ to stand on tiptoe ♦ walk on tiptoe. Additional references.

Danish

tåspidsgang (walking on tiptoe). (various references)

Finnish

varpaisillaan. (various references)

French

sur la pointe de pieds. (various references)

German

auf Zehenspitzen (tiptoe, tiptoeing). (various references)

Greek 

στις μύτες των ποδιών, ακροποδητί (tiptoe). (various references)

Hungarian

lábujjhegyen (tippytoe, tiptoe), izgatottan (agitatedly, astir, heatedly, hectically, jumpily, tippytoe, tiptoe, tumultuously), idegesen (edgily, jumpily, restlessly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

背伸び (overreach oneself, standing on tiptoe, stretch oneself), 爪立つ (to stand on tiptoe), 伸し上がる (to become arrogant, to rise in the world, to stand on tiptoe), 伸び上がる (to reach to, to stand on tiptoe, to stretch). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

のしあがる (to become arrogant, to rise in the world, to stand on tiptoe), のびあがる (to reach to, to stand on tiptoe, to stretch), つま� つ (to stand on tiptoe), せのび (overreach oneself, standing on tiptoe, stretch oneself). (various references)

Pig Latin

onay iptoetay

Russian 

на цыпочках. (various references)

Swedish

på tå. (various references)

Turkish

sessizce (in quiet, in silence, mutely, noiselessly, quietly, silently, tiptoe), parmak uçlarına basarak (tiptoe), heyecanla (agog, emotionally, excitedly, heatedly, tiptoe), hevesle (eagerly, keenly). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: option, pointe, potent, potion, tiptoe.

-3 letters: inept, netop, opine, petit, petti, petto, pinot, pinto, piton, point, potto, topoi.

-4 letters: into, nett, nite, nope, note, onto, open, otto, pein, pent, peon, pine, pint, pion, poet, pone, poon, tent, tine, tint, toit, tone, toon, toot, tope, topi, tote.

-5 letters: eon, ion, net, nip, nit, noo, not.

+2 letters: intertroop, omnipotent, outpointed, protection, stenotopic, totipotent.

+3 letters: competition, deportation, exportation, fetoprotein, luteotropin, omnipotents, optokinetic, ornithopter, posttension, potentiator, protections, topocentric, totipotency.

+4 letters: competitions, counterpoint, deportations, exploitation, exportations, fetoproteins, interoceptor, interpolator, luteotrophin, luteotropins, metropolitan, omnipotently, operationist, ornithopters, outcompeting, overplotting, periodontist, photokinetic, photosetting, postelection, posttensions, potentiation, potentiators, protestation, stereopticon, toploftiness.

+5 letters: anticorporate, apportionment, containerport, contemplation, contraception, counterpoints, expectoration, exploitations, expostulation, extrapolation, hypothecation, interoceptors, interpolation, interpolators, interposition, introspection, iontophoretic, luteotrophins, metropolitans, noncompetitor, omnicompetent, onomatopoetic, operationists, opportunities, optionalities, paleobotanist, periodontists, photonegative, photoreaction, planetologist, postinfection, postinjection, postmodernist, posttensioned, potentiations, potentiometer, prognosticate, projectionist, proportionate, protectionism, protectionist, protestations, protonotaries, recomputation, reexportation, reimportation, retrospection, sexploitation, stereopticons, teleportation, temporization, totipotencies.