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chip

noun
/t͡ʃɪp/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kippōną Proto-West Germanic *kippōn Old English *ċippiander. Old English ċipp Middle English chippe English chip Noun from Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ċipp (“chip; small piece of wood, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-West Germanic *kippōn (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Germanic *kippōną (“to chip, chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kip, keep (“notch; nick; score”), Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop. The formally similar Old English ċipp, ċypp, ċyp (“a beam; log; stock; post”), from Proto-Germanic *kippaz (“log; beam”) (whence Old Saxon kip (“post”), Old High German kipfa, chipfa (“axle, stave”), Old Norse keppr (“cudgel, club”)) is a different, unrelated word either borrowed from Latin cippus (“stake; pale; post”) or borrowed from the same source language as the Latin. Verb from Middle English chippen, from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) – see above.

  1. inherited from *ċippian✻ — “to cut; hew”
  2. inherited from chippen
  3. derived from *ǵeyb-✻ — “to split; divide; germinate; sprout”
  4. inherited from *kippōną✻ — “to chip, chop”
  5. inherited from *kippōn✻ — “to cut; carve; hack; chop”
  6. derived from *ċippian✻
  7. inherited from ċipp — “chip; small piece of wood, shaving”
  8. inherited from chip

Definitions

  1. 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.

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

    • This cup has a chip in it.

  3. 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.
  4. ›+ 37 more definitions

    1. A medallion.

      • AA chips showing duration of abstinence (6 months)

    2. A sovereign (the coin).

    3. A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate

      A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.

    4. A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised…

      A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical or biochemical devices.

    5. A deep-fried strip of potato

      A deep-fried strip of potato; see also usage note at french fries.

      • I always say the best way to judge an establishment is by its chips because if you can’t master that, what can you do?
      • Do you want ketchup, mustard, or mayonnaise on your chips?
      • Fish and chips is a traditional British dish.

    6. A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, a crisp

      A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, a crisp; occasionally a similar fried slice of another vegetable or dried fruit.

      • They made their own potato chips from scratch... He ate a tortilla chip with guac... served with a side of apple chips...

    7. A type of shot in various sports.

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

    8. A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.

    9. A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.

    10. A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.

      • chocolate chip

    11. A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A…

      A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.

    12. The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.

    13. Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for…

      Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.

    14. Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.

    15. The smallest amount

      The smallest amount; a whit or jot.

      • One captain that I sailed with was not a chip better than the one we’re with now.

    16. 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).

    17. To break small pieces from.

      • Be careful not to chip the paint.

    18. To become chipped.

      • This varnish chips easily.

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

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

    20. To use a chisel.

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

    21. To strike or play (the ball or other implement) as a chip shot.

    22. To beat (an opposing player) by use of a chip shot, such as by looping the ball over the…

      To beat (an opposing player) by use of a chip shot, such as by looping the ball over the head of the opposing goalkeeper.

    23. To move (a ball) a relatively short distance by means of an oblique contact.

      • In potting the black, he also managed to chip the red off the side cushion.

    24. To fit (an animal) with a microchip.

    25. To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.

    26. To ante (up).

    27. To contribute.

      • Everyone needs to chip in £1 for George's leaving collection.

    28. To make fun of.

      • They chip me about giving that young judy the cross; but I dont care: I stand up to them proper, and tell them that if she hadnt a better right to it than they, she'd be where they are.
      • That sounded a trivial message, but the man began to cry. 'That's her', he sobbed. 'She was always chipping me about my collars'.

    29. To kill.

    30. To leave.

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

    31. A diminutive of the male given names Christopher and Charles.

    32. A nickname used for males who are second-generation namesakes.

    33. Acronym of children's health insurance program.

    34. Acronym of clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential.

    35. Abbreviation of chromatin immunoprecipitation.

    36. Acronym of California Highway Patrol.

    37. An officer of the California Highway Patrol.

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Derived

all that and a bag of chips, all that and a bag of potato chips, antichip, anti-chip, bargaining chip, biochip, blue-chip, blue chip, blue chip swap, brain chip, brother chip, buffalo chip, cash in one's chips, cheap as chips, Chipaggedon, chip and PIN, chip bap, chip barm, chip basket, chipboard, chip bun, chip butty, chipcard, chip card, chip chart, chip cherry, chip fork, chip hat, chiphead, chip leader, chipless, chiplet, chiplike, chip log, chipmaker, chipmaking, chipman, chipmusic, chip off the block, chip off the old block · +109 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chip. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA