Chip

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Table of contents

1 Noun

2 Verb

2.1 Transitive
2.2 Intransitive

Noun

A small piece of solid material.
A token used in place of cash in gambling.
A damaged area of a surface where a chip has been broken off.
(Electronics) a circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
A thin, crisp item of food, usually made from fried or baked vegetables. (Potato chips, tortilla chips. These products are called crisps in Hiberno English and British usage)
(British usage) strip of potato with a square or rectangular cross-section, similar to french fries but generally thicker.
(Slang) feces. (Cow chips)

Verb

Transitive

To break into small pieces.
The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch.
To break small pieces from.
Be careful not to chip the paint.

Intransitive

To break small pieces from something.
The sculptor chips away at the marble block.

WordNet Definitions

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1. bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap -- (a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye").
2. chip -- (a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line).
3. chip, cow chip, cow dung, buffalo chip -- (a piece of dried bovine dung).
4. chip, crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip -- (a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat).
5. check, chip -- (a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something).
6. chip, poker chip -- (a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling).
7. chip, microchip, micro chip, silicon chip -- (electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit).
8. chip, chip shot -- (a low running approach shot).
9. chip, chipping, splintering -- (the act of chipping something).

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1. chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off -- (break off (a piece from a whole); "Her tooth chipped").
2. nick, chip -- (cut a nick into).
3. chip -- (play a chip shot).
4. chip -- (form by chipping; "They chipped their names in the stone").
5. chip, knap, cut off, break off -- (break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth").

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