chip

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to break a small piece off from

   chip the glass

2. 2
   verb

   to break off a piece from a whole

   The tooth was chipped after a nasty fall.

3. 3
   verb

   to form by chipping

   They chipped their names in the stone

4. 4
   noun

   A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.

   The floor of the sculptor's studio was strewn with chips of marble.

5. 5
   noun

   A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.

   This cup has a chip in it.

6. 6
   noun

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   A medallion.

   AA chips showing duration of abstinence (6 months)

8. 8
   noun

   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.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kippōną Proto-West Germanic *kippōn Old English *ċippiander. Old English ċipp Middle English chippe English chip Noun from Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ċipp (“chip; small piece of wood, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-West Germanic *kippōn (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Germanic *kippōną (“to chip, chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kip, keep (“notch; nick; score”), Dutch kippen (“to hatc…