chip

Meanings

Noun

• A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
• A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
• A token used in place of cash.
• A sovereign .
• A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
• A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.
• A fried strip of potato of square or rectangular cross-section; a french fry.
• A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes another vegetable; a crisp.
• A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
• A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
• A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
• A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
• A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
• A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
• The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
• Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
• Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
• A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.

Verb

• To chop or cut into small pieces.
• To break small pieces from.
• To play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards rather than forwards. In association football specifically, when the shot is a shot on goal, the opposing goalkeeper may be the direct object of the verb, rather than the ball.
• to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
• To become chipped.
• To ante (up).
• To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
• to contribute.
• (also, to chip at) To make fun of.

Related

Similar words

• flake
• IC, integrated circuit, microchip, silicon chip
• crisp
• , French fries
• punnet , pottle

Origin

• From Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ċipp, from Old English *ċippian ("to cut; hew") – attested in Old English forċippian –, from Proto-Germanic *kipp-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyb-. Related to Dutch kip, keep, Dutch kippen, German Low German kippen, German kipfen, Old Swedish kippa. Compare also chop.
• The formally similar Old English ċipp, ċypp, ċyp, from Proto-Germanic *kippaz, whence Old Saxon kip, Old High German kipfa, chipfa and Old Norse keppr, ultimately from Latin cippus, is a different, unrelated word.
• From Middle English chippen, from Old English *ċippian – attested in Old English forċippian –, from Proto-Germanic *kipp-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵey-. Related to Dutch kippen, German Low German kippen, German kipfen, Old Swedish kippa. Compare also chop.