Word: chip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kippōną Proto-West Germanic *kippōn Old English *ċippiander. Old English ċipp Middle English chippe English chip 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. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪp/, [t͡ʃʰɪp] 1. A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material. Example: The floor of the sculptor's studio was strewn with chips of marble. Example: The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago. 2. A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off. Example: This cup has a chip in it. 3. A token used in place of cash. Example: 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. 4. A medallion. Example: AA chips showing duration of abstinence (6 months) 5. A sovereign (the coin). Labels: dated, slang 6. A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip. Example: 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. 7. A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical or biochemical devices. Example: 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. Example: 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]. 8. A deep-fried strip of potato; see also usage note at french fries. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, archaic, plural-normally Example: 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? Example: Do you want ketchup, mustard, or mayonnaise on your chips? 9. A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, a crisp; occasionally a similar fried slice of another vegetable or dried fruit. Labels: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, especially, in-plural Example: They made their own potato chips from scratch... He ate a tortilla chip with guac... served with a side of apple chips... 10. A type of shot in various sports. Example: Oxlade-Chamberlain saw his attempted chip well blocked by goalkeeper Costanzo at the start of the second half. 11. A type of shot in various sports. 12. A type of shot in various sports. 13. A type of shot in various sports. 14. A type of shot in various sports. 15. A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel. 16. A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit. Labels: New-Zealand, Northern 17. A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking. Example: chocolate chip 18. A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications. 19. The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line. 20. Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets. Labels: historical 21. Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour. Labels: archaic, derogatory 22. The smallest amount; a whit or jot. Example: One captain that I sailed with was not a chip better than the one we’re with now.