plural chips
1
a
: a small usually thin and flat piece (as of wood or stone) cut, struck, or flaked off
b
: a small piece of food: such as
(1)
: a small, thin, crisp, usually salty piece of food typically prepared by frying, baking, or drying
banana chips
especially
: potato chip see also corn chip
(2)
(3)
: a small often cone-shaped bit of food often used for baking
chocolate chips
c
: a small card displaying a paint color or a range of paint colors available for purchase
fabric swatches and paint chips
2
: something small, worthless, or trivial
3
a
: one of the counters used as a token for money in poker and other games
b
chips plural
: money
—used especially in the phrase in the chips
The beginning was always characterized by careless haste in the expectation of landing in the chips, …—
William Kittredge
William Kittredge
c
: something valuable that can be used for advantage in negotiation or trade
a bargaining chip
4
: a piece of dried dung
—usually used in combination
cow chip
5
: a flaw left after a chip has been broken off
6
b
: a small wafer of semiconductor material that forms the base for an integrated circuit
8
: microarray
DNA chips
chipped; chipping
1
a
: to cut or hew with an edged tool
b(1)
: to cut or break (a small piece) from something
(2)
: to cut or break a fragment from
chip a tooth
(3)
: to cut into chips
chip a tree stump
3
: to hit (a return in tennis) with backspin
Examples of chip in a Sentence
Noun
The cup has a chip in it.
wood chips were spread over the ground between the plants
Verb
I bit into something hard and chipped my tooth.
He fell and chipped a bone in his knee.
The paint had chipped off.
He chipped away the ice from the car's windshield.
The sculptor chipped away bits of stone.
The golfer chipped the ball onto the green.
She chipped the soccer ball over the goalie's head.
He chipped a pass to his teammate.
The golfer chipped onto the green.
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Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
Ahead of dinner, guests arrived and camped out at the black marble bar for a dirty Yola-tini mezcal martini over moreish chips and dip.
—Freya Drohan, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2024
Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2024
Method 3: Using A Honing Rod Honing rods are intended to keep your knives sharp rather than restoring a dull or chipped knife to its former razor-sharp glory.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2024
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Noun
One piece with inlaid turquoise chips showed how the ancestors of the O’odham adorned themselves.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
Ahead of dinner, guests arrived and camped out at the black marble bar for a dirty Yola-tini mezcal martini over moreish chips and dip.
—Freya Drohan, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2024
Verb
Before the night was out, Germans began chipping away at the barrier, carrying off chunks of one of the symbols of the diminishing Iron Curtain.
—Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2024
Method 3: Using A Honing Rod Honing rods are intended to keep your knives sharp rather than restoring a dull or chipped knife to its former razor-sharp glory.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Chip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chip. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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chip
1 of 2 noun1
: a small thin flat piece (as of wood, stone, or glass) broken off : flake
2
3
a
: a counter used in poker
b
plural
: money sense 1c
in the chips
4
: a flaw left after a small piece has been broken off
a cup with a chip in it
5
: a very small slice of silicon containing electronic circuits (as for a computer)
chip
2 of 2 verb
chipped; chipping
1
: to cut or break a chip from something
chip a cup
2
: to break off in small pieces
Medical Definition
chip
noun
: microarray
When exposed to a sample of unknown DNA, the probes on the chip bind to their complementary strands, thereby reading the sequences in the sample.—Jeff Wheelwright, Discover
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