Define the word Chip"Chip" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Chip \Chip\, v. i.
To break or fly off in small pieces.
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"Chip" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Chip \Chip\, n.
1. A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by
an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.
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2. A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.
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3. Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited
in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
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4. Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used
contemptuously.
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5. One of the counters used in poker and other games.
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6. (Naut.) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log
line.
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Buffalo chips. See under Buffalo.
Chip ax, a small ax for chipping timber into shape.
Chip bonnet, Chip hat, a bonnet or a hat made of Chip.
See Chip, n., 3.
A chip off the old block, a child who resembles either of
his parents. [Colloq.] --Milton.
Potato chips, Saratoga chips, thin slices of raw potato
fried crisp.
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"Chip" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Chip \Chip\ (ch[i^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chipped (ch[i^]pt);
p. pr. & vb. n. Chipping.] [Cf. G. kippen to cut off the
edge, to clip, pare. Cf. Chop to cut.]
1. To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape,
by cutting away a little at a time; to hew. --Shak.
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2. To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an
eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
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3. To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.
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To chip in, to contribute, as to a fund; to share in the
risks or expenses of. [Slang. U. S.]
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"chip" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
chip
n 1: a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a
bit of rock caught him in the eye" [syn: bit, flake,
fleck, scrap]
2: a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
3: a piece of dried bovine dung [syn: cow chip, cow dung, buffalo chip]
4: a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat [syn: crisp,
potato chip, Saratoga chip]
5: a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken
off of something [syn: check]
6: a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when
gambling [syn: poker chip]
7: electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a
silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of
electronic functions in an integrated circuit [syn: microchip,
micro chip, silicon chip]
8: a low running approach shot [syn: chip shot]
9: the act of chipping something [syn: chipping, splintering]
v 1: break off (a piece from a whole); "Her tooth chipped" [syn:
chip off, come off, break away, break off]
2: cut a nick into [syn: nick]
3: play a chip shot
4: form by chipping; "They chipped their names in the stone"
5: break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a
tooth" [syn: knap, cut off, break off]
[also: chipping, chipped]
"chip" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
176 Moby Thesaurus words for "chip":
abrade, abrasion, air, bark, bit, blemish, bloody, breach, break,
break in, breakage, bubble, burn, burst, bust, butt, chafe, chaff,
check, cheep, chime in, chip in, chipper, chirm, chirrup, chisel,
chitter, chunk, claw, cleft, clip, clipping, cobweb, collop,
concussion, contribute, cork, counter, crack, crackle, craze,
crumb, cut, cutting, dandruff, dollop, down, dust, end, ether,
exfoliate, fairy, feather, fissure, flake, flash burn, floccule,
flocculus, flock, flue, fluff, foam, fracture, fragment, fray,
frazzle, fret, froth, fuzz, gall, gap, gash, gob, gobbet, gossamer,
hew, hunk, hurt, incise, incision, injure, injury, intercede,
interfere, interpose, interrupt, intrude, lacerate, laceration,
lesion, lump, maim, make mincemeat of, marker, maul, modicum,
moiety, morceau, morsel, mortal wound, mote, mutilate, mutilation,
nip, paring, participate, particle, patch, peep, piece, pierce,
plaque, puncture, rasher, rend, rent, rift, rip, run, rupture,
savage, scald, scale, scoop, scorch, scotch, scrap, scrape,
scratch, scuff, scurf, second-degree burn, shard, shaving, shiver,
shred, skin, slash, slice, slit, sliver, smithereen, snack, snap,
snatch, snick, snip, snippet, sore, splinter, split, sponge,
sprain, spume, stab, stab wound, stick, stitch, strain, straw,
stump, tag, tatter, tear, third-degree burn, thistledown, token,
trauma, traumatize, tweedle, tweet, twitter, whittle, wound,
wounds immedicable, wrench
"chip" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"
CHIP
1. A early system on the IBM 1103 or 1103A.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
(1994-11-15)
2. Constraint Handling In Prolog.
"chip" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"
chip
integrated circuit
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