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Chip   /tʃɪp/   Listen
Chip

noun
1.
A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.  Synonyms: bit, flake, fleck, scrap.
2.
A triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line.
3.
A piece of dried bovine dung.  Synonyms: buffalo chip, cow chip, cow dung.
4.
A thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat.  Synonyms: crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip.
5.
A mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something.  Synonym: check.
6.
A small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling.  Synonym: poker chip.
7.
Electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit.  Synonyms: micro chip, microchip, microprocessor chip, silicon chip.
8.
(golf) a low running approach shot.  Synonym: chip shot.
9.
The act of chipping something.  Synonyms: chipping, splintering.
verb
(past & past part. chipped; pres. part. chipping)
1.
Break off (a piece from a whole).  Synonyms: break away, break off, chip off, come off.
2.
Cut a nick into.  Synonym: nick.
3.
Play a chip shot.
4.
Form by chipping.
5.
Break a small piece off from.  Synonyms: break off, cut off, knap.  "Chip a tooth"



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"Chip" Quotes from Famous Books



... your suggestions as to typography or paragraphing whatsoever. He wears slippers and smokes a primitive clay pipe; he has everything in its place, and you cannot offend him more than by looking over any proof except when he is holding it. A chip of himself is the copyholder at his side,—a meagre, freckled, matter of fact youth, who reads your tenderest sentences in a rapid monotone, and is never known to venture any opinion or suggestion whatever. This boy, I ...
— Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, - and His Romaunt Abroad During the War • George Alfred Townsend
... for Goethe; if so, it went all agley. Yet, in the course of that pageant, his career, there did happen just one humiliation—one thing that needed to be hushed up. There Tischbein's defalcation was; a chip in the marble, a flaw in the crystal, just one thread loose in the ...
— And Even Now - Essays • Max Beerbohm
... plaintive may-be of the goldfinch tells me he is stealing my lettuce-seeds. I know not what the experience of others may have been, but the only bird I have ever hard sing in the night has been the chip-bird. I should say he sang about as often during the darkness as cocks crow. One can hardly help fancying that he ...
— My Garden Acquaintance • James Russell Lowell
... patch of late sunshine flitted a small butterfly—one of the Grapta species. It settled on a chip of wood, uncoiled its delicate proboscis, and spread its fulvous and ...
— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers
... be done, and I'd as soon Believe this knife will chip the moon, Accept my present, undeterred, And leave their ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan


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