Chipping

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of cutting or knocking off in small pieces.
  • noun. The flying or breaking off in small pieces of the edges of pottery and porcelain.
  • noun. A chip; a piece cut off or separated by a cutting or engraving instrument or by a blow; a fragment.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.
  • noun. The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.
  • noun. The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of chip.
  • noun. A fragment broken off of a larger material
  • noun. The act of breaking something into small fragments, or of removing fragments from pottery etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of chipping something
  • Word Usage
    "It is whether the five Republican appointees on the Court are interested in chipping away at it, or whether they'd prefer to avoid that confrontation with the administration and the Democrats."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    break  breakage  breaking  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    chip  fragment  
    verb-stem
    chip