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Definition of 'CHIP'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) chip
a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking.

2.  chip
a very thin slice or small piece of food, candy, etc.:
chocolate chips.

3.  chip
a mark or flaw made by the breaking off or gouging out of a small piece:
This glass has a chip.

4.  chip
any of the small round disks, used as tokens for money in roulette, poker, and some other gambling games; counter.

5.  chip
anything trivial or worthless.

6.  chip
a piece of dried dung:
buffalo chips.

7.  chip
Chiefly Brit.

8. (v.t.) chip
to hew or cut with an ax, chisel, etc.

9.  chip
to break off or gouge out (a bit or fragment):
to chip a piece of ice from a large block.

10.  chip
to cut or break a bit or fragment from:
to chip a tooth.

11.  chip
to shape or produce by cutting or flaking away pieces:
to chip a figure out of wood.

12.  chip
Tennis. to slice (a ball) on a return shot, producing backspin.

13. (v.i.) chip
to break off in small pieces.

14.  chip
to make a chip shot.

15.  chip
chip in,

16.  chip
to give as one's share; contribute:
We each chipped in five dollars.

17.  chip
to share a cost or burden by giving money or aid:
to chip in on a birthday cake.

18. (v.i.) chip
to chirp or squeak; cheep.

19. (n.) chip
a chirp or squeak; cheep.

Etymology: (1880–85; var. of cheep)

Definition of 'CHIP'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap
a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
"a bit of rock caught him in the eye"

2. (noun) chip
a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line

3. (noun) chip, cow chip, cow dung, buffalo chip
a piece of dried bovine dung

4. (noun) chip, crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip
a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

5. (noun) check, chip
a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something

6. (noun) chip, poker chip
a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling

7. (noun) chip, microchip, micro chip, silicon chip, microprocessor chip
electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit

8. (noun) chip, chip shot
(golf) a low running approach shot

9. (verb) chip, chipping, splintering
the act of chipping something

10. (verb) chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off
break off (a piece from a whole)
"Her tooth chipped"

11. (verb) nick, chip
cut a nick into

12. (verb) chip
play a chip shot

13. (verb) chip
form by chipping
"They chipped their names in the stone"

14. (verb) chip, knap, cut off, break off
break a small piece off from
"chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"

Definition of 'CHIP'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) chip
a thin piece of crisp food
potato/corn chips

2.  chip
a small area where a piece of sth has broken off
a tiny chip on the rim of the vase

3.  chip
a small piece from sth that has been broken, cut, etc.
wood chips

4.  chip
a round piece of plastic used as money in gambling
***He'd lost all his chips.

5.  chip
a tiny electronic part used in computers
a silicon computer chip

6.  chip
have a chip on your shoulder
to be very sensitive about a particular subject
He had a chip on his shoulder about his lack of education.

7. (verb) chip
to break a small piece from, or have a small piece broken from
I chipped my tooth.; My tooth chipped.

Definition of 'CHIP'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) CHIP
a piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument

2. (noun) CHIP
a fragment or piece broken off; a small piece

3. (noun) CHIP
wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets

4. (noun) CHIP
anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously

5. (noun) CHIP
one of the counters used in poker and other games

6. (noun) CHIP
the triangular piece of wood attached to the log line

7. (verb) CHIP
to cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew

8. (verb) CHIP
to break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery

9. (verb) CHIP
to bet, as with chips in the game of poker

10. (verb) CHIP
to break or fly off in small pieces

Translation of 'CHIP'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to knock or strike small pieces off This glass (was) chipped when I knocked it over.
Afrikaans: splinter	Arabic: يَكْسِرُ، يَقْطَعُ كَشَرا	Bulgarian: нащърбявам (се)
Brazilian: lascar	Czech: uštípnout, odštípnout	German: anschlagen
Danish: slå en flis af; slå skår	Greek: σπάω στην άκρη	Spanish: desportillar
Estonian: katki tegema, kildu külje	Farsi: خرد کردن	Finnish: lohkaista
French: ébrécher	Hebrew: לִסדוֹק	Hindi: कोने से टूटना, चू-चूकरना,
Croatian: otkrhnuti, rezuckati	Hungarian: kicsorbít	Indonesian: pecah sedikit, sumbing
Icelandic: flísa	Italian: frantumarsi; scheggiarsi	Japanese: かく
Korean: (식기, 컵 등의) 이가 빠지다	Lithuanian: nuskelti,įskilti	Latvian: atdauzīt (trauka malas);
Malay: serpih	Dutch: afsplinteren	Norwegian: lage skår i, hogge av en
Polish: wyszczerbiać (się)	Persian: خرد کردن	Pashto: كوچنۍ ټوټه (دلرګى يا بل ش
Portuguese: lascar	Romanian: a sfărâma; a ciobi	Russian: оббивать(ся)
Slovak: obiť, puknúť	Slovenian: odkrušiti	Serbian: okrnjiti
Swedish: slå en flisa ur	Thai: กระเทาะ	Turkish: çentilmek, ucundan kıvrıl
Taiwanese: 敲或打碎	Ukrainian: відколюватися, розбиватис	Urdu: چھیلنا
Vietnamese: làm sứt	Chinese: 碎裂
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