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chip Definition

chip (c̸hip)

transitive verb chipped, chip′·ping

  1. Rare to cut or chop with an ax or other sharp tool
    1. to break or cut a small piece or thin slice from
    2. to break or cut off (a small piece or pieces)
  3. to shape by cutting or chopping to chip a hole in the ice
  4. Tennis to hit (a ball) in a short, soft shot with backspin

Etymology: ME chippen < OE *cippian < cipp, log, plowshare < L cippus, post, stake < IE base *eipo-, sharp post

intransitive verb

    1. to break off in small pieces this paint chips easily
    2. to lose or be inherently subject to losing a small part or parts of itself the plate will chip easily
  2. Golf to make a chip shot
  3. Tennis to hit a short, soft shot with backspin

noun

  1. a small, thin piece of wood, stone, etc., cut or broken off
  2. a place where a small piece has been chipped off a chip on the edge of a plate
  3. wood, palm leaf, or straw split and woven into bonnets, hats, etc.
  4. ☆ a fragment of dried animal dung, sometimes used for fuel
  5. ☆ a worthless thing
  6. one of the small, round disks or counters used in poker and other gambling games as a token for money
    1. a thin slice or small piece of food a potato chip, a chocolate chip
    2. Chiefly Brit. French fried potatoes
  8. Electronics
    1. a semiconductor body in which an integrated circuit is formed or is to be formed
    2. integrated circuit
  9. Golf chip shot
  10. Tennis a shot that is chipped

Etymology: ME chippe < the v.

chip Idioms

cash in one's chips

☆
  1. to turn in one's chips for their equivalent in money
  2. Slang to die

chip in

☆ Informal
  1. to share in giving money or help
  2. to add one's comments

chip off the old block

a person much like his or her parent in appearance or characteristics

chip on one's shoulder

☆

Informal an inclination to fight or quarrel

in the chips

☆

Slang rich; wealthy

let the chips fall where they may

let the consequences be what they may

when the chips are down

☆

when something is really at stake

chip Synonyms

chip

n.

  1. A fragment

    thin slice, shard, sliver, shaving; see bit 1, flake, part 1.

  2. A microcircuit

    microchip, integrated circuit, semiconductor, microprocessor, silicon chip, computer on a chip.

  3. A place where a piece has chipped off

    nick, scratch, flaw; see blemish, nick.

  4. A counter used in games

    token, poker chip, counter, marker, disk, piece.

having a chip on one's shoulder*

ready to fight, belligerent, truculent, hostile; see aggressive 2, angry.

in the chips*

wealthy, having money, flush*; see rich 1.

when the chips are down

in a crisis, having trouble, in a difficult position; see in trouble 1 at trouble.

chip Synonyms

chip

v.

nick, scratch, gouge, slash, hew, hack, crumble, snip, fragment, break, crack, flake, incise, shape, shape bit by bit, cut fragments from, whittle, crack off, splinter, gash, snick, notch, sliver, cut, cut off, chop, split, slice, chisel, clip, cut away, fracture, shiver, reduce.

Antonyms join*, unite, mend.

chip Telecom Definition
  1. In computer hardware, a miniaturized integrated electronic circuit etched on a tiny wafer of silicon. See also electronic, hardware, integrated circuit, and silicon.
  2. In spread spectrum (SS) radio, a random pseudonoise (PN) code symbol. A sequence of chips, each of which has a much shorter duration than an information bit, are used to modulate the bits. The IEEE 802.11b standard for wireless LANs (WLANs), for example specifies Barker code at transmission rates of 1 Mbps and 2 Mbps, and complementary code keying (CCK) at 5.5 Mbps and 11 Mbps. Both Barker code and CCK code data bits into chips to form symbols prior to transmission. See also Barker code, CCK, code, DSSS, FHSS, SS, and symbol.
chip Usage Examples

Object

  • bark: For a truly authentic feel, finish the planting off with a mulch of chipped bark.

Converse of object

  • monogram: It's monogrammed clay chips the only retained their ability.
  • embed: IBM has recently added an embedded security chip that allows you to encrypt the security keys of a wireless network.

Adjective modifier

  • rfid: The RFID chip in the key fob contains a select set of codes designed to work with a given car.
  • blue: Previous packaging experience is essential, ideally with a major blue chip.
  • deft: Cook went close again on 25 minutes, Yaku forcing a corner a minute later with a deft chip cross the face of goal.
  • 65nm: Nvidia is already producing 65nm chips, the graphics specialist has revealed.

Preposition: on

  • motherboard: The built-in modem is a chip on the motherboard used primarily in laptops.

Modifies a noun

  • clay: Be the chip clay poker purchase most the leakage a. Season three wpt true feel and by now the.
  • poker: Official wpt logo anti chip gravity poker trick italian e. Was reputed to possessed the ability.
  • shop: He has enough vinegar in his face to run a chip shop!
  • supper: But a silver sauce sleeve would certainly add a touch of class to your egg and chip supper.
  • pan: Because of fire risk, deep fat chip pans must not be used in the kitchens.
  • trick: On cbs's sports chip tricks the they lived in a paper to.

Noun used with modifier

  • poker: Less cardinal professional poker chips to the to the element recognize a. Matt damon became room with its tour tm wpt.
  • clay: It's monogrammed clay chips the only retained their ability.
  • casino: Wish to gloat him to further casino chip poker vineyard rendus march d. Featuring all five in the story and geitel failure.
  • silicon: Silicon Glen now dominates a significant part of the European market for silicon chips.
  • bargaining: We will not be a bargaining chip or tool of pressure to be used against Iraq.
  • potato: R Davis, Stoke on Trent I am writing to congratulate you on the best ever potato chips in the whole wide world ever.
chip Quotes

He was not merelya chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

—Burke, Edmund