chip
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: chips
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chipped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
pos: noun
examples: The floor of the sculptor's studio was strewn with chips of marble.
The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
gloss: A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
pos: noun
examples: This cup has a chip in it.
gloss: A token used in place of cash.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A medallion.
pos: noun
examples: AA chips showing duration of abstinence (6 months)
gloss: A sovereign (the coin).
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
gloss: A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.
pos: noun
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.
gloss: A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical or biochemical devices.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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].
gloss: A deep-fried strip of potato; see also usage note at french fries.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
archaic
plural-normally
examples: 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?
Do you want ketchup, mustard, or mayonnaise on your chips?
Fish and chips is a traditional British dish.
gloss: A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, a crisp; occasionally a similar fried slice of another vegetable or dried fruit.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
New-Zealand
US
especially
in-plural
examples: They made their own potato chips from scratch... He ate a tortilla chip with guac... served with a side of apple chips...
gloss: A type of shot in various sports.
pos: noun
examples: Oxlade-Chamberlain saw his attempted chip well blocked by goalkeeper Costanzo at the start of the second half.
gloss: A type of shot in various sports.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of shot in various sports.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of shot in various sports.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of shot in various sports.
pos: noun
gloss: A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
pos: noun
gloss: A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
Northern
gloss: A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
pos: noun
examples: chocolate chip
gloss: A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
pos: noun
gloss: The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
pos: noun
gloss: Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
derogatory
gloss: The smallest amount; a whit or jot.
pos: noun
examples: One captain that I sailed with was not a chip better than the one we’re with now.
gloss: To chop or cut into small pieces.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch.
Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on).
gloss: To break small pieces from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Be careful not to chip the paint.
gloss: To become chipped.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This varnish chips easily.
gloss: To chisel (something), to chisel on (something).
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
transitive
examples: The fitter was chipping and filing a workpiece clamped in his vise.
gloss: To use a chisel.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
intransitive
examples: The fitters were chipping and filing furiously to meet their deadline.
gloss: To strike or play (the ball or other implement) as a chip shot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Koeman identified Southampton’s third as their finest goal of the game. Jack Cork, the most underrated player at a much-lauded club, swept the ball out wide to Tadic, who waited for Cork to run to the back post before chipping the ball across to him to slam in a deserved goal from close range, despite an attempted block by Vito Mannone.
gloss: To beat (an opposing player) by use of a chip shot, such as by looping the ball over the head of the opposing goalkeeper.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Typically when someone scores a stunning goal this early in the season — it’s only Week 2 — it gets forgotten, or at the very least lost in the shuffle after eight more months of worthy GOTY candidates. Not this year, though, because no one is forgetting Amarikwa chipping Adam Kwarasey from 35 yards out and burying the ball in the top corner.
gloss: To move (a ball) a relatively short distance by means of an oblique contact.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In potting the black, he also managed to chip the red off the side cushion.
gloss: To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
gloss: To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To ante (up).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
often
gloss: To contribute.
pos: verb
tags: UK
often
transitive
examples: Everyone needs to chip in £1 for George's leaving collection.
gloss: To make fun of.
pos: verb
examples: They chip me about giving that young judy the cross; but I dont care: I stand up to them proper, and tell them that if she hadnt a better right to it than they, she'd be where they are.
That sounded a trivial message, but the man began to cry. 'That's her', he sobbed. 'She was always chipping me about my collars'.
gloss: To kill.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Related words: French fries
fries
potato wedges
woodchip
Derived words: all that and a bag of chips
all that and a bag of potato chips
antichip
anti-chip
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 PIN
chip bap
chip barm
chip basket
chipboard
chip bun
chip butty
chipcard
chip card
chip chart
chip cherry
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
kodi chips
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
organ-on-a-chip
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
chip and charge
chip and gather
chip at
chip away
chip in
chip into
chippable
chipped
chipped beef
chipped potato
chipper
chipping
chipping bird
chipping sparrow
chipping squirrel
chip up
rechip
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