Chip
[tʃɪp]
Definition
(noun.) the act of chipping something.
(noun.) (golf) a low running approach shot.
(noun.) electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit.
(noun.) a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling.
(noun.) a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line.
(noun.) a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat.
(noun.) a piece of dried bovine dung.
(verb.) break a small piece off from; 'chip the glass'; 'chip a tooth'.
(verb.) break off (a piece from a whole); 'Her tooth chipped'.
(verb.) form by chipping; 'They chipped their names in the stone'.
(verb.) play a chip shot.
Edited by Griffith--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
(v. t.) To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
(v. t.) To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.
(v. i.) To break or fly off in small pieces.
(n.) A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.
(n.) A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.
(n.) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
(n.) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.
(n.) One of the counters used in poker and other games.
(n.) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
Typist: Nora
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Hew, cut chips from.
n. Fragment, scrap, small piece.
Checked by Lilith
Definition
v.t. to chop or cut into small pieces: to hew: of chickens to break the shell of the egg in hatching: to pare away the crust of bread &c.: to bet:—pr.p. chip′ping; pa.p. chipped.—n. a small piece of wood or other substance chopped off: (slang) a sovereign.—n. Chip′-hat a cheap kind of hat made of what is popularly called Brazilian grass but really consisting of strips of the leaves of a palm (Cham鎟ops argentea) imported from Cuba.—adj. Chip′py abounding in chips: dry as a chip: seedy from an overdose of liquor.—Chip in to supply one's part.—A chip of the old block one with the characteristics of his father.
Checker: Yale
Examples
- Drive stakes in the river at various places and note the time required for a chip to float from one stake to another. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- As he looked a trout rose for some insect and made a circle on the surface close to where the chip was turning. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was a wax vesta half burned, which was so coated with mud that it looked at first like a little chip of wood. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- If you wish to be sure of this, throw the pebble near a spot where a chip lies quiet on the smooth pond. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If we know the distance between the stakes and the time required for the chip to float from one stake to another, the velocity of the water can be readily determined. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Formerly augers and similar boring tools had merely a curved sharpened end and a concavity to hold the chips, and the whole tool had to be withdrawn to empty the chips. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- One day Epstein appeared and said: 'Good-morning, Mr. Bergmann, have you any chips to-day? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the sulphite process the chips are then delivered into the digesters shown in Fig. 128, which are supplied with sulphurous acid generated in a plant shown in Fig. 129. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Pliny refers to the curled chips raised by the plane, and Ansonius refers to mills driven by the waters of the Moselle for sawing marble into slabs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Poor chips-in-porridge, you are very unmannerly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Epstein went up to several boxes piled full of chips, and so heavy that he could not lift even one end of a box. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There were only four stationers of any consequences in the town, and at each Holmes produced his pencil chips, and bid high for a duplicate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Who is not familiar with the chipped flint arrow-heads that the farmer so often turns up with his plow as a relic of the period when Americans were red-skinned instead of white? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Stones apparently chipped for use have been found in strata of Oligocene Age at Boncelles in Belgium. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Alongside the rudest and earliest chipped stone implements have been found the hollow clay dish for holding fire, or food, or water. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He never liked to see me mend pens; my knife was always dull-edged--my hand, too, was unskilful; I hacked and chipped. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Knife-edge girdle diamonds are impractical owing to the liability of chipping the thin edge in setting or by blows while being worn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Thirty years ago, the cost of labour for turning a surface of cast iron, by chipping and filing with the hand, was 12s. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I wonder you did not go out of your mind in that smoky London, chipping away at marble and cutting it out. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Pilgrims were too much given to chipping off pieces of it to carry home. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Even of that marble-chipping you call art? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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