Chip

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  • noun. A trick method of throwing one's opponent in wrestling.
  • intransitive verb. To cheep, as a bird.
  • noun. A small broken or cut off piece, as of wood, stone, or glass.
  • noun. A crack or flaw caused by the removal of a small piece.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A small disk or counter used in poker and other games to represent money.
  • noun. Money.
  • noun. A small, thin piece of semiconductor bearing numerous circuits integrated into its substrate. A chip smaller than a fingernail can hold millions of circuits. Most of a computer's circuitry is built from chips mounted on circuit boards.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A thin, usually fried slice of food, especially a potato chip.
  • noun. A very small piece of food or candy.
  • noun. French fries.
  • noun. Wood, palm leaves, straw, or similar material cut and dried for weaving.
  • noun. A fragment of dried animal dung used as fuel.
  • noun. Something worthless.
  • noun. A chip shot.
  • intransitive verb. To chop or cut with an ax or other implement.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To break a small piece from.
  • intransitive verb. To break or cut off (a small piece).
  • intransitive verb. To shape or carve by cutting or chopping.
  • intransitive verb. To become broken off into small pieces.
  • intransitive verb. To make a chip shot in golf.
  • phrasal verb. To reduce or make progress on something incrementally.
  • phrasal verb. To contribute money or labor.
  • phrasal verb. To interrupt with comments; interject.
  • phrasal verb. To put up chips or money as one's bet in poker and other games.
  • idiom. (chip off the old block) A child whose appearance or character closely resembles that of one or the other parent.
  • idiom. (chip on (one's) shoulder) A habitually hostile or combative attitude.
  • idiom. (when the chips are down) At a critical or difficult time.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Specifically, in gem-cutting, a cleavage which weighs less than three fourths of a carat.
  • To cut into small pieces or chips; diminish or disfigure by cutting away a little at a time or in small pieces; hack away. See chipping.
  • In poker, faro, and other games at cards, to bet; lay a wager: as, to chip five dollars (that is, to stake chips representing five dollars).
  • To break or fly off in small pieces, as the glazing in pottery.
  • In poker, to bet a chip: as, I chip.
  • To carp; gibe; sneer.
  • noun. The cry of the bat.
  • noun. In wrestling, a special mode of throwing one's opponent; a trick.
  • noun. A quarrel; a falling out; a ‘spat.’
  • In poker, to bet a counter of the smallest value, in order to keep in the pool until others declare.
  • noun. A small fragment of wood, stone, or other substance, separated from a body by a blow of an instrument, particularly a cutting instrument, as an ax, an adz, or a chisel.
  • noun. Wood, coarse straw, palm-leaves, or similar material split into thin slips and made by weaving into hats and bonnets.
  • noun. Anything dried up and deprived of strength and character.
  • noun. Specifically— The dried dung of the American bison; a buffalo-chip.
  • noun. Nautical, the quadrant-shaped piece of wood attached to the end of the log-line. See log.
  • noun. One of the small disks or counters used in poker and some other games at cards, usually of ivory or bone, marked to represent various sums of money.
  • noun. A carpenter: commonly in the plural.
  • noun. A small wedge-shaped piece of ivory used in rough-tuning a piano.
  • To utter a short, dry, crisp sound, as a bird or a bat; cheep; chirp.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To break or fly off in small pieces.
  • Word Usage
    ""_Thou art a chip -- Thou art a chip_," Angelica responded."
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    Equivalent
    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Crip  Flip  Kip  Nip  Pip  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bit  cake  card  cheese  circuit  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    French fries  IC  abrade  abrasion  air  
    variant
    chipped  chipping  
    verb-form
    chipped  chipping  chips