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chip
transitive verb chipped, chipping
- Rare to cut or chop with an ax or other sharp tool
- to break or cut a small piece or thin slice from
- to break or cut off (a small piece or pieces)
- to shape by cutting or chopping: to chip a hole in the ice
- Tennis to hit (a ball) in a short, soft shot with backspin
intransitive verb
- to break off in small pieces: this paint chips easily
- to lose or be inherently subject to losing a small part or parts of itself: the plate will chip easily
- Golf to make a chip shot
- Tennis to hit a short, soft shot with backspin
noun
- a small, thin piece of wood, stone, etc., cut or broken off
- a place where a small piece has been chipped off: a chip on the edge of a plate
- wood, palm leaf, or straw split and woven into bonnets, hats, etc.
- ☆ a fragment of dried animal dung, sometimes used for fuel
- ☆ a worthless thing
- one of the small, round disks or counters used in poker and other gambling games as a token for money
- a thin slice or small piece of food: a potato chip, a chocolate chip
- Chiefly Brit. French fried potatoes
- Electronics
- a semiconductor body in which an integrated circuit is formed or is to be formed
- integrated circuit
- Golf chip shot
- Tennis a shot that is chipped
See chip in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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