Definitions for Chip

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Chip chip

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IPA: /tʃɪp/

Chip is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in Chip (chip).

Definitions for Chip

noun

1. a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking.
2. a very thin slice or small piece of food, candy, etc.:
3. a mark or flaw made by the breaking off or gouging out of a small piece:
4. any of the small round disks, usually of plastic or ivory, used as tokens for money in certain gambling games, as roulette or poker; counter.
5. Also called microchip. Electronics. a tiny slice of semiconducting material, generally in the shape of a square a few millimeters long, cut from a larger wafer of the material, on which a transistor or an entire integrated circuit is formed. Compare microprocessor.
6. a small cut or uncut piece of a diamond or crystal.
7. anything trivial or worthless.
8. something dried up or without flavor.
9. a piece of dried dung:
10. wood, straw, etc., in thin strips for weaving into hats, baskets, etc.
11. Golf. chip shot.
12. Tennis. a softly sliced return shot with heavy backspin.
13. the strip of material removed by a recording stylus as it cuts the grooves in a record.
14. chips, Chiefly British. French fries.
15. a short chirping or squeaking cry.
16. a tricky or special method by which an opponent can be thrown.
17. Charles Eustis [yoo-stis] /ˈyu stɪs/ (Show IPA), ("Chip") 1904–74, U.S. diplomat.

Idioms

1. chip off the old block, a person who resembles one parent in appearance or behavior:
2. chip on one's shoulder, a disposition to quarrel:
3. in the chips, Slang. wealthy; rich:
4. when the chips are down, in a discouraging or disadvantageous situation; in bad or pressing times:

Verb phrases

1. chip in, to contribute money or assistance; participate. Games. to bet a chip or chips, as in poker. to interrupt a conversation to say something; butt in:

verb (used with object)

1. to hew or cut with an ax, chisel, etc.
2. to cut, break off, or gouge out (bits or fragments):
3. to disfigure by breaking off a fragment:
4. to shape or produce by cutting or flaking away pieces:
5. Games. to bet by means of chips, as in poker.
6. Tennis. to slice (a ball) on a return shot, causing it to have heavy backspin.
7. Slang. to take (a narcotic drug) occasionally, especially only in sufficient quantity to achieve a mild euphoria.
8. Chiefly British Sports. to hit or kick (a ball) a short distance forward.
9. British Slang. to jeer or criticize severely; deride; taunt.
10. Australian. to hoe; harrow.

verb (used without object)

1. to break off in small pieces.
2. Golf. to make a chip shot.
3. to utter a short chirping or squeaking sound; cheep.

Origin of Chip

1300-50; (noun) Middle English chip (compare Old English cipp plowshare, beam, i.e., piece cut off); (v.) late Middle English chippen (compare Old English -cippian in forcippian to cut off);

Examples for Chip

Can you chip away at the distrust of the police among black people?

chip, thinking of the morrow's drive, groaned in real anguish of spirit.

So the question was, how do we design a chip hearty, while keeping it thin?

At CES this year, Intel showed off a onesie equipped with a chip that monitors vitals and movement.

When he returned to challenge James in 2006, he was a celebrity with a chip on his shoulder.

chip saw and interpreted the glance, somewhat contemptuously.

chip carefully brushed a fly off Polly's flank with the whip.

The girl caught her breath, and chip eyed her sharply from the corner of his eye.

A bunch of us were able to chip in and were able to get—I think within a day and a half—a journalist down to Ferguson.

It is but a chip here and a chip there, yet it may bring the tree down in time.