chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chĭp
ipa: /t͡ʃɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: chips
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-West Germanic *kippōn (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Germanic *kippōną (“to chip, 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”), Old Norse keppr (“cudgel, club”)) is a different, unrelated word either borrowed from Latin cippus (“stake; pale; post”) or borrowed from the same source language as the Latin.
Verb from Middle English chippen, from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) – see above.
Senses: examples: text: The floor of the sculptor's studio was strewn with chips of marble.
text: The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 3:
synonyms: word: flake
word: fragment
word: bit
word: chip
word: chunk
word: clip
word: crumb
word: crumbling
word: cutting
word: flake
word: fleak
word: fragment
word: hunk
word: lump
word: mammock
word: ort
word: piece
word: piecemeal
word: portion
word: scrap
word: scraplet
word: slice
word: snead
word: snippet
word: steck
glosses: A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
examples: text: This cup has a chip in it.
glosses: A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
examples: text: If the second player does raise three chips, and all the other players drop, the player who opened may stay in by putting three more chips in the pot, for then he will have put in precisely as many chips as the second player.
ref: 2002, Albert H. Moorehead, Hoyle′s Rules of Games, page 46:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A token used in place of cash.
examples: text: AA chips showing duration of abstinence (6 months)
ref: 2023, Thomas Thurnell-Read, Mark Monaghan, Intoxication: Self, State and Society, page 135:
glosses: A medallion.
glosses: A sovereign (the coin).
examples: 1986 September 1, Tom Moran, Lisa L. Spiegelman, New Chip Said to Contain Seven PC AT Chip Functions, InfoWorld, page 5,
But sources close to the company said the chip contains two direct memory access controllers, two interrupt controllers, a timer, a memory mapper from Texas Instruments, and a Motorola Inc. real-time clock.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: IC
integrated circuit
microchip
silicon chip
glosses: A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.
examples: text: 2002, Koji Ikuta, Atsushi Takahashi, Kota Ikeda, Shoji Maruo, User-Assembly Fully Integrated Micro Chemical Laboratory Using Biochemical IC Chips for Wearable/Implantable Applications, Yoshinobu Baba, Shuichi Shoji, Albert van den Berg (editors), Micro Total Analysis Systems 2002: Proceedings of the μTAS 2002 Symposium, Volume 1, page 38,
Fig. 4(a) shows a schematic design of the micropump chip.
text: Fig. 0.3 is an image of the front and back views of a drug delivery microchip made of silicon and painted with gold, with a U.S. dime (10 cents). The chip in the picture consists of 34 nano-sized wells each of which is capable of housing 24 nl (nano liters) of drug. It is possible to make at least 400 wells or even 1000 or more in these chips which are very inexpensive, costing less tham $20 [22, 23].
ref: 2007, Elisabeth S. Papazoglou, Aravind Parthasarathy, Bionanotechnology, page 6:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical or biochemical devices.
examples: text: I always say the best way to judge an establishment is by its chips because if you can’t master that, what can you do?
ref: 2023 July 21, Billie Schwab Dunn, “I Tried Wetherspoons Food for the First Time-I Feared I'd Get Scurvy...”, in Daily Star:
text: Do you want ketchup, mustard, or mayonnaise on your chips?
text: Fish and chips is a traditional British dish.
synonyms: word: fries
word: fry
word: French fry
glosses: A deep-fried strip of potato; see also usage note at french fries.
raw_tags: in Canada
examples: text: They made their own potato chips from scratch... He ate a tortilla chip with guac... served with a side of apple chips...
synonyms: word: crisp
glosses: A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, a crisp; occasionally a similar fried slice of another vegetable or dried fruit.
examples: text: Oxlade-Chamberlain saw his attempted chip well blocked by goalkeeper Costanzo at the start of the second half.
ref: 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A type of shot in various sports.
A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
qualifier: sports such as soccer
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A type of shot in various sports.
A light shot with a downward slice, usually played from close to the net.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A type of shot in various sports.
A low shot, usually played at short range around and onto a green, intended to travel a short distance through the air and roll the remainder of the way towards the hole.
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A type of shot in various sports.
A very light shot that hits the cue ball so softly that it barely moves an object ball into a pocket without the cue ball going in as well.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A type of shot in various sports.
A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
glosses: A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
synonyms: word: punnet
word: pottle
glosses: A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
examples: chocolate chip
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
glosses: A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
glosses: Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
glosses: Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
examples: text: One captain that I sailed with was not a chip better than the one we’re with now.
ref: 1858, R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island:
glosses: The smallest amount; a whit or jot.
Derived terms: all that and a bag of chips
all that and a bag of potato chips
anti-chip
antichip
bargaining chip
biochip
blue-chip
blue chip
blue chip swap
brain chip
brother chip
buffalo chip
cash in one's chips
cheap as chips
Chipaggedon
chip and charge
chip and PIN
chip bap
chip barm
chip basket
chipboard
chip bun
chip butty
chipcard
chip card
chip chart
chip fork
chip hat
chiphead
chip leader
chipless
chiplet
chiplike
chip log
chipmaker
chipmaking
chipman
chipmusic
chip off the block
chip off the old block
chip of the old block
chip on one's shoulder
chippage
chip pan
chippie
chippy
chips and cheese
chip scanner
chipseal
chipset
chip shooter
chip shop
chip-shop
chip shot
chip-shot
chips mayai
chip steak
chipsteak
chipster
chips with everything
chips-with-everything
chip time
chiptune
chip wagon
chipyard
Chipzilla
chirping chips
choc chip
chocolate chip
Clipper chip
cold chips
computer chip
corn chip
cow chip
cow-chip
curry chip
DIP chip
fairy chip
fairy chips
finger chip
finger chips
fish and chips
fish 'n' chips
flip chip
genechip
have a chip on one's shoulder
have had one's chips
hot chips
immunochip
interchip
intrachip
kettle chip
lab on a chip
let the chips fall where they may
log chip
memory chip
microchip
mint chip
mint 'n chip
mint 'n' chip
modchip
multichip
neurochip
outchip
oven chip
piss on someone's chips
poker chip
potato chip
prawn chip
red chip
RFID chip
salt and chilli chips
salt and pepper chips
Saratoga chip
sensorchip
shrimp chip
silicon chip
slap chip
spit chips
stack chips
steak chips
system on a chip
system-on-chip
tomorrow's chip paper
tortilla chip
v-chip
when the chips are down
white chip
woodchip
zebra chip
Related terms: French fries
fries
potato wedges
woodchip