Definitions for chiptʃɪp

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

chiptʃɪp(n.; v.)chipped, chip•ping.

(n.)a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking.
a very thin slice or small piece of food, candy, etc.:
chocolate chips.
Category: Cooking
a mark or flaw made by the breaking off or gouging out of a small piece:
This glass has a chip.
any of the small round disks, used as tokens for money in roulette, poker, and some other gambling games; counter.
Category: Games
Category: Electronics, Electricity and Magnetism
Ref: Also called microchip.
anything trivial or worthless.
a piece of dried dung:
buffalo chips.
Category: Sport
Ref: chip shot.
Tennis.a softly sliced return shot with heavy backspin.
Category: Sport
chips, Chiefly Brit.
Category: Cooking
Ref: French fries .
(v.t.)to hew or cut with an ax, chisel, etc.
to break off or gouge out (a bit or fragment):
to chip a piece of ice from a large block.
to cut or break a bit or fragment from:
to chip a tooth.
to shape or produce by cutting or flaking away pieces:
to chip a figure out of wood.
Tennis. to slice (a ball) on a return shot, producing backspin.
Category: Sport
(v.i.)to break off in small pieces.
to make a chip shot.
Category: Sport
chip in, to give as one's share; contribute: to share a cost or burden by giving money or aid:
We each chipped in five dollars.
to chip in on a birthday cake.
Category: Verb Phrase

Idioms for chip:

chip off the old block,a person who strongly resembles one parent in appearance or behavior.
Category: Idiom
chip on one's shoulder,an antagonistic or quarrelsome disposition.
Category: Idiom

Origin of chip:

1300–50; (n.) ME; cf. OE cipp plowshare, beam (v.) late ME chippen; cf. OE -cippian in forcippian to cut off; akin to MLG, MD kippen to chip, hatch

chip′pa•ble(adj.)

chiptʃɪp(v.; n.)chipped, chip•ping

(v.i.)to chirp or squeak; cheep.
(n.)a chirp or squeak; cheep.

Origin of chip:

1880–85; var. of cheep

Princeton's WordNet

bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap(noun)
a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
"a bit of rock caught him in the eye"
chip(noun)
a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
chip, cow chip, cow dung, buffalo chip(noun)
a piece of dried bovine dung
chip, crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip(noun)
a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
check, chip(noun)
a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
chip, poker chip(noun)
a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling
chip, microchip, micro chip, silicon chip, microprocessor chip(noun)
electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
chip, chip shot(noun)
(golf) a low running approach shot
chip, chipping, splintering(verb)
the act of chipping something
chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off(verb)
break off (a piece from a whole)
"Her tooth chipped"
nick, chip(verb)
cut a nick into
chip(verb)
play a chip shot
chip(verb)
form by chipping
"They chipped their names in the stone"
chip, knap, cut off, break off(verb)
break a small piece off from
"chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

chip(noun)ʃɪp
a thin piece of crisp food
potato/corn chips
chipʃɪp
a small area where a piece of sth has broken off
a tiny chip on the rim of the vase
chipʃɪp
a small piece from sth that has been broken, cut, etc.
wood chips
chipʃɪp
a round piece of plastic used as money in gambling
***He'd lost all his chips.
chipʃɪp
a tiny electronic part used in computers
a silicon computer chip
chipʃɪp
to be very sensitive about a particular subject
He had a chip on his shoulder about his lack of education.
chip(verb)ʃɪp
to break a small piece from, or have a small piece broken from
I chipped my tooth.; My tooth chipped.

Wiktionary

chip(Noun)
A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
chip(Noun)
A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
This cup has a chip in it.
chip(Noun)
A token used in place of cash.
chip(Noun)
A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
chip(Noun)
A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.
chip(Noun)
A fried strip of potato of square or rectangular cross-section; a french fry.
Do you want sauce or mayonnaise on your chips?
chip(Noun)
A thin, crisp, baked piece of vegetable, usually potato.
potato chip, tortilla chip
chip(Noun)
A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
chip(Noun)
A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
chip(Verb)
To break into small pieces.
The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch.
chip(Verb)
To break small pieces from.
Be careful not to chip the paint.
chip(Verb)
To play a shot hitting the ball predominately upwards rather than forwards.
chip(Verb)
to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
chip(Verb)
To become chipped.
This varnish chips easily.
chip(Verb)
To ante (up).
chip(Verb)
To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
chip(Verb)
to contribute.
Anyone got u00A31? u2014 Iu2032ll chip 50p.
chip(Noun)
A dried piece of dung used as fuel.
chip(Noun)
A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
chip(Noun)
A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
chocolate chip
Chip(ProperNoun)
A diminutive of the male given names Christopher and Charles.
ChIP(Noun)
chromatin immunoprecipitation

Origin: chip from ċipp "log, beam, small piece of wood" from kip(p)az. Akin to kip "post", kipfa, chipfa "axle, stave", keppr "cudgel, club". Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian cifël.

Webster Dictionary

Chip(verb)
to cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew
Chip(verb)
to break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery
Chip(verb)
to bet, as with chips in the game of poker
Chip(verb)
to break or fly off in small pieces
Chip(noun)
a piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument
Chip(noun)
a fragment or piece broken off; a small piece
Chip(noun)
wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets
Chip(noun)
anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously
Chip(noun)
one of the counters used in poker and other games
Chip(noun)
the triangular piece of wood attached to the log line