chip

chip

chip (third-person singular simple present chips, present participle chipping, simple past and past participle chipped)

1. (transitive) To break into small pieces.

   The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch.

2. (transitive) To break small pieces from.

   Be careful not to chip the paint.

3. (transitive, golf) To play a shot hitting the ball predominately upwards rather than forwards.
4. (transitive, automotive) to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
5. (intransitive) To become chipped.

   This varnish chips easily.

6. (intransitive, card games, often with ""in"") To ante (up).
7. (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
8. (UK, transitive, often with ""in"") to contribute.

   Anyone got £1? — I?ll chip 50p.

chip (plural chips)

1. A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
2. A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.

   This cup has a chip in it.

3. (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
   • 2002, Albert H. Moorehead, Hoyle?s Rules of Games, page 46,

     If the second player does raise three chips, and all the other players drop, the player who opened may stay in by putting three more chips in the pot, for then he will have put in precisely as many chips as the second player.

4. (electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
   • 1986 September 1, Tom Moran, Lisa L. Spiegelman, New Chip Said to Contain Seven PC AT Chip Functions, InfoWorld, page 5,

     But sources close to the company said the chip contains two direct memory access controllers, two interrupt controllers, a timer, a memory mapper from Texas Instruments, and a Motorola Inc. real-time clock.

5. (electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.
   • 2002, Koji Ikuta, Atsushi Takahashi, Kota Ikeda, Shoji Maruo, User-Assembly Fully Integrated Micro Chemical Laboratory Using Biochemical IC Chips for Wearable/Implantable Applications, Yoshinobu Baba, Shuichi Shoji, Albert van den Berg (editors), Micro Total Analysis Systems 2002: Proceedings of the ?TAS 2002 Symposium, Volume 1, page 38,

     Fig. 4(a) shows a schematic design of the micropump chip.

   • 2007, Elisabeth S. Papazoglou, Aravind Parthasarathy, Bionanotechnology, page 6,

     Fig. 0.3 is an image of the front and back views of a drug delivery microchip made of silicon and painted with gold, with a U.S. dime (10 cents). The chip in the picture consists of 34 nano-sized wells each of which is capable of housing 24 nl (nano liters) of drug. It is possible to make at least 400 wells or even 1000 or more in these chips which are very inexpensive, costing less tham $20 [22, 23].

6. (US) A thin, crisp, baked piece of vegetable, usually potato.

   potato chip, tortilla chip

7. (UK, Australian and New Zealand) A fried strip of potato of square or rectangular cross-section; a french fry.

   Do you want sauce or mayonnaise on your chips?

8. (sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
   • 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, BBC Sport:

     Oxlade-Chamberlain saw his attempted chip well blocked by goalkeeper Costanzo at the start of the second half.

9. (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
10. A dried piece of dung used as fuel.
11. (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
12. (gastronomy) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.

    chocolate chip

	chip
	token used in gambling
	circuit
	A device consisting of a number of connected circuit elements, such as transistors and resistors, fabricated on a small rectangle (a "die") cut from a silicon (or, in some special cases, a sapphire) wafer. Chips are categorized by the number of elements they contain.

	gettone
	token used in gambling

	patatina
	fried strip of potato

	frammento
	small piece broken off

	pezzetto
	Un piccolo frammento di qualcosa che si é staccato dal resto.
	A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.

microcircuito integrato

parte

patatine fritte

pulce

scaglia

scheggia

scheggiare

scheggiatura

tagliuzzare

truciolo

Altri significati:

A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.

(intransitive) To become chipped.

dried piece of dung

to become chipped

damaged area of a surface

(transitive, automotive) to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.

(curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.

A damaged area of a surface where a chip has been broken off.

(UK, Australian and New Zealand) A fried strip of potato of square or rectangular cross-section, similar to French fries.

(New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.

chip (in a cup)

(transitive) To break into small pieces.

(transitive) To break small pieces from.

A token used in place of cash in gambling.

(transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.

to break small pieces from

A piece or strip of potato that has been (usually deep-fat) fried and is commonly eaten with or as fast food.

(electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.

(transitive, golf) To play a shot where the ball goes predominately upwards rather than forwards

(US) A thin, crisp, baked piece of vegetable, usually potato.

(sports) A shot where the ball goes more upwards than a regular shot

A dried piece of dung used as fuel.

An area of an object (such as a mug or plate) where a small piece has broken off, rendering the object damaged.

(intransitive, card games) Often with "in

A thin slice of potato (baked until firm and brittle, then seasoned) that is commonly sold in packets and comes in various flavors.

to break into small pieces

block (of wood)

baked piece of vegetable

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