chip

noun

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. A medallion.

   “AA chips showing duration of abstinence (6 months)”

5. (dated, slang)A sovereign (the coin).
6. A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.

   “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.”

7. A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical 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 μTAS 2002 Symposium, Volume 1, page 38, Fig. 4(a) shows a schematic design of the micropump chip.”

   “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].”

8. (Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, archaic, plural-normally)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.”

9. (Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, especially, in-plural)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...”

10. 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.”

11. A type of shot in various sports.
12. A type of shot in various sports.
13. A type of shot in various sports.
14. A type of shot in various sports.
15. A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
16. (New-Zealand, Northern)A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
17. A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.

    “chocolate chip”

18. A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
19. The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
20. (historical)Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
21. (archaic, derogatory)Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
22. 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.”

23. (abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable)Abbreviation of chromatin immunoprecipitation.
24. An officer of the California Highway Patrol.

verb

1. (transitive)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).”

2. (transitive)To break small pieces from.

   “Be careful not to chip the paint.”

3. (intransitive)To become chipped.

   “This varnish chips easily.”

4. (dialectal, transitive)To chisel (something), to chisel on (something).

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

5. (dialectal, intransitive)To use a chisel.

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

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

   “Koeman identified Southampton’s third as their finest goal of the game. Jack Cork, the most underrated player at a much-lauded club, swept the ball out wide to Tadic, who waited for Cork to run to the back post before chipping the ball across to him to slam in a deserved goal from close range, despite an attempted block by Vito Mannone.”

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

   “Typically when someone scores a stunning goal this early in the season — it’s only Week 2 — it gets forgotten, or at the very least lost in the shuffle after eight more months of worthy GOTY candidates. Not this year, though, because no one is forgetting Amarikwa chipping Adam Kwarasey from 35 yards out and burying the ball in the top corner.”

8. (transitive)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.”

9. (informal, transitive)To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
10. (transitive)To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
11. (intransitive, often)To ante (up).
12. (UK, often, transitive)To contribute.

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

13. 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'.”

14. (slang)To kill.
15. (UK, intransitive, slang)To leave.

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

name

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

   “"What else? Anyway, here's the genealogy: Charles Junior's only son is Charles the Third - like royalty. He goes by Chip - Cassie's daddy. The mom is Cindy. The dead son was Chad - Charles the Fourth." "All Cs," I said. "Sounds like they like order."”

2. A nickname used for males who are second-generation namesakes.
3. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of children's health insurance program.
4. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential.
5. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of California Highway Patrol.