chip

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/t͡ʃʰɪp/

noun 7verb 6name 5

Collocations

(noun.) microchip

ADJ

computer, silicon | graphics, memory, microprocessor

VERB + CHIP

make, manufacture, produce | design, develop

use

Modern smartphones use advanced chips that process millions of calculations every second.

CHIP + VERB

contain sth

The microchip contained advanced security features that protected our personal data.

CHIP + NOUN

design, technology

set

The computer engineer explained how the new chip set improved the laptop's processing speed significantly.

PREP

on a/the ~

Modern smartphones have billions of transistors on a single chip.

(verb.)

ADV

badly

His old coffee mug was badly chipped around the rim from years of use.

away

The team slowly chipped away at their debt by saving money each month.

PREP

off

The old plaster was chipping off the wall near the kitchen sink.

Definitions

noun

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

The floor of the sculptor's studio was strewn with chips of marble.

The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.

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

This cup has a chip in it.

A token used in place of cash.

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.

A medallion.

AA chips showing duration of abstinence (6 months)

A sovereign (the coin).

verb

To chop or cut into small pieces.

The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch.

Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on).

To break small pieces from.

Be careful not to chip the paint.

To become chipped.

This varnish chips easily.

To chisel (something), to chisel on (something).

The fitter was chipping and filing a workpiece clamped in his vise.

To use a chisel.

The fitters were chipping and filing furiously to meet their deadline.

verb

To leave.

‘Lloyd, I’m gonna chip.’ ‘You just got here!’ ‘I know–but I gotta chip. Got shit to do.’

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the act of chipping something

chipping
splintering

noun — electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a sili

microchip

noun — a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken o

check

noun — a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

crisp

noun — a small fragment of something broken off from the whole

verb — cut a nick into

nick

verb — break a small piece off from

knap

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

chip off the old block

Someone who takes after one of their parents; (generally) a person similar to another.

He's a chip off the old block—quick to anger just like his father.

chip in

To make a contribution; help in a small way; especially, to pay for a part of something.

If we all chip in, we can afford to buy a pizza for lunch.

chip on one's shoulder

A form of challenge, in the same spirit as a medieval knight throwing down his gauntlet.

‘Oh! if I only could get him to knock a chip off my shoulder, and so get round the law, I would give him one of the soundest thrashings he ever had.’

chip away

To reduce or weaken bit by bit; often used with at.

Iraneus contrasts the unity and integrity of these writings with the distorted, contextless citations of the Gnostics. He describes the code of textual harassment that allows these

chip up

To cause something to have chips, cracks or dents.

It were when my father were employed as mason under 'brick and mortar Benson,' as they called him, for repairs of a wall, and they were short of stones, and they chipped up the fig

Example Bank

The floor of the sculptor's studio was strewn with chips of marble.

Wiktionary

The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.

Wiktionary

This cup has a chip in it.

Wiktionary

The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch.

Wiktionary

Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on).

Wiktionary

Be careful not to chip the paint.

Wiktionary

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, chip is marked as dated, slang, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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