CHIP (chipped, chipping)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chip mean? 

• CHIP (noun)
  The noun CHIP has 9 senses:

1. a small fragment of something broken off from the whole

2. a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line

3. a piece of dried bovine dung

4. a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

5. a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something

6. a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling

7. electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit

8. (golf) a low running approach shot

9. the act of chipping something

  Familiarity information: CHIP used as a noun is familiar.

• CHIP (verb)
  The verb CHIP has 5 senses:

1. break off (a piece from a whole)

2. cut a nick into

3. play a chip shot

4. form by chipping

5. break a small piece off from

  Familiarity information: CHIP used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small fragment of something broken off from the whole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

bit; chip; flake; fleck; scrap

Context example:

a bit of rock caught him in the eye

Hypernyms ("chip" is a kind of...):

fragment (a piece broken off or cut off of something else)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chip"):

matchwood (fragments of wood)

exfoliation; scale; scurf (a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin)

scurf ((botany) a covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant parts)

sliver; splinter (a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal)

Derivation:

chip (break a small piece off from)

chip (break off (a piece from a whole))

chip (form by chipping)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chip" is a kind of...):

float (something that floats on the surface of water)

Domain category:

navigation; sailing; seafaring (the work of a sailor)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A piece of dried bovine dung

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

buffalo chip; chip; cow chip; cow dung

Hypernyms ("chip" is a kind of...):

droppings; dung; muck (fecal matter of animals)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

chip; crisp; potato chip; Saratoga chip

Hypernyms ("chip" is a kind of...):

snack food (food for light meals or for eating between meals)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

check; chip

Hypernyms ("chip" is a kind of...):

blemish; defect; mar (a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body))

Derivation:

chip (cut a nick into)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chip; poker chip

Hypernyms ("chip" is a kind of...):

counter (game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chip"):

blue chip (a blue poker chip with the highest value)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chip; micro chip; microchip; microprocessor chip; silicon chip

Hypernyms ("chip" is a kind of...):

semiconductor; semiconductor device; semiconductor unit (a conductor made with semiconducting material)

Meronyms (parts of "chip"):

integrated circuit; microcircuit (a microelectronic computer circuit incorporated into a chip or semiconductor; a whole system rather than a single component)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chip"):

biochip (a microchip that uses tiny strands of DNA to latch onto and quickly recognize thousands of genes at a time; intended for use in a biological environment)

DNA chip; gene chip (a microchip that holds DNA probes that form half of the DNA double helix and can recognize DNA from samples being tested)

memory chip (a RAM microchip that can be plugged into a computer to provide additional memory)

microprocessor (integrated circuit semiconductor chip that performs the bulk of the processing and controls the parts of a system)

Holonyms ("chip" is a part of...):

computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)

Sense 8

Meaning:

(golf) a low running approach shot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

chip; chip shot

Hypernyms ("chip" is a kind of...):

approach; approach shot (a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green)

Domain category:

golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)

Derivation:

chip (play a chip shot)

Sense 9

Meaning:

The act of chipping something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

chip; chipping; splintering

Hypernyms ("chip" is a kind of...):

break; breakage; breaking (the act of breaking something)

Derivation:

chip (break off (a piece from a whole))

chip (break a small piece off from)

• CHIP (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Break off (a piece from a whole)

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

break away; break off; chip; chip off; come off

Context example:

Her tooth chipped

Hypernyms (to "chip" is one way to...):

divide; part; separate (come apart)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chip"):

flake; flake off; peel; peel off (come off in flakes or thin small pieces)

exfoliate (come off in a very thin piece)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sentence examples:

The glass tubes chip
These glasses chip easily

Derivation:

chip (the act of chipping something)

chip (a small fragment of something broken off from the whole)

chipping (the act of chipping something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cut a nick into

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

chip; nick

Hypernyms (to "chip" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

chip (a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Play a chip shot

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "chip" is one way to...):

shoot (throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective)

Domain category:

golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

chip ((golf) a low running approach shot)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Form by chipping

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

They chipped their names in the stone

Hypernyms (to "chip" is one way to...):

forge; form; mold; mould; shape; work (make something, usually for a specific function)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

chip (a small fragment of something broken off from the whole)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Break a small piece off from

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

break off; chip; cut off; knap

Context example:

chip a tooth

Hypernyms (to "chip" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They chip the glass tubes

Also:

chip at (engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface)

Derivation:

chip; chipping (the act of chipping something)

chip (a small fragment of something broken off from the whole)

 Context examples 

Scientists managed to instantly “teleport” data between two chips that are not connected for the very first time.

(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Of particular danger to the reefs were single-use plastic bags, chip bags, diapers and rice sacks.

(Plastic debris linked to coral disease, death, SciDev.Net)

Summarizes probe sets using the model described in Li and Wong (2001) to a probe set with I chips and J probes.

(Bioconductor caAffy Li Wong Probe Summary Method, NCI Thesaurus)

But in the past decade, the scientific community has chipped away at that notion.

(Ancient sharks likely more diverse than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

The NeuroX gene chip contains the codes of approximately 24,000 common genetic variants thought to be associated with a broad spectrum of neurodegenerative disorders.

(NIH scientists find six new genetic risk factors for Parkinson’s, NIH)

Unlike traditional petri dish systems, tissue chips help researchers grow cells in more life-like environments.

(Researchers begin recreating human spinal cords on a chip, National Institutes of Health)

Researchers have developed a “placenta-on-a-chip” to study the inner workings of the human placenta and its role in pregnancy.

(Researchers design placenta-on-a-chip to better understand pregnancy, NIH)

After hybridization occurs, the microarray chip is imaged and the captured fluorescence signals from the array are normalized and subjected to statistical analysis.

(ChIP-On-Chip, NCI Thesaurus)

The chip is used in various types of hybridization experiments.

(DNA Microarray Chip, NCI Thesaurus)

It is but a chip here and a chip there, yet it may bring the tree down in time.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)