chip
Meaning
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- A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
- A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
- A token used in place of cash.
- A medallion.
- (slang) A sovereign (the coin).
- A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.
- A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical or biochemical devices.
- A deep-fried strip of potato; see also usage note at french fries.
- A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, a crisp; occasionally a similar fried slice of another vegetable or dried fruit.
- A type of shot in various sports.
- A type of shot in various sports.
- A type of shot in various sports.
- A type of shot in various sports.
- A type of shot in various sports.
- A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
- A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
- A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
- A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
- The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
- Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
- Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
Concepts
chip
splinter
flake
fragment
bit
piece
crisp
nick
notch
scrap
token
sliver
crack
microchip
counter
potato chip
break
slice off
break off
fleck
carve
crumb
damage
scratch
check
shaving
chipping
chip shot
micro chip
silicon chip
poker chip
cow chip
cut
integrated circuit
splint
slice
shard
block
fish
slip
splintering
cut off
knap
break away
chip off
come off
microprocessor chip
Saratoga chip
buffalo chip
cow dung
spall
dent
gap
part
erode
opening
chisel
section
drop
cut open
split
inscribe
jag
sherd
fry
tally
flea
lack
sharpen
be grazed
touch
shortage of weight
thin slice
lath
hit
excelsior
beard
French fried potatoes
French fries
crisps
shiver
pit
crevice
half
rift
aperture
breach
chipped
pass
window
ablactation
coupon
cut out
skive
slash
chop
hew
filling
cutting scrap
cuttings
shavings
swarf
trimming
substrate
chad
micro module
micromodule
timbering residue
wood dust
wood flour
wood meal
spill
wood chip
film
lamella
layered
leaf
segment
sheet
slide
tablet
wafer
numeral
fragmentary grain
rasura
shive
smithereens
cutting
sweepings
filing
integrated circuit block
die
peel away
scrape
wood
strand
board
timber
chunk
cavern
character
chase
engrave
gouge
groove
incise
rout
trench
burrow
cavity
cranny
dimple
hole
hollow
nest
turning
indent
mill
recess
slug
spark
cracking
shattering
broken
material
broken piece
break up
strip
microprocessor
french fry
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/t͡ʃɪp/
Etymology
Noun from Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ċipp (“chip; small piece of wood, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-Germanic *kipp- (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kip, keep (“notch; nick; score”), Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop. The formally similar Old English ċipp, ċypp, ċyp (“a beam; log; stock; post”), from Proto-Germanic *kippaz (“log; beam”), whence Old Saxon kip (“post”), Old High German kipfa, chipfa (“axle, stave”) and Old Norse keppr (“cudgel, club”), ultimately from Latin cippus (“stake; pale; post”), is a different, unrelated word. Verb from Middle English chippen, from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-Germanic *kipp- (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵey- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop.
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