chip

  • 71chip in — v. 1) (D; intr.) to chip in for (they all chipped in for a present) 2) (D; intr.) to chip in with (we all chipped in with our suggestions) * * * [ tʃɪp ɪn] (D;intr.) to chip infor (they all chip inped in for a present) (D; intr.) to chip in with… …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 72chip — 1. noun /tʃɪp/ a) A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material. This cup has a chip in it. b) A damaged area of a surface where a chip has been broken off. potato chips Syn: flake, IC …

    Wiktionary

  • 73chip — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. piece, splinter, fragment, flake; counter, check. See part, money. v. t. break, split. See disjunction. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A fragment] Syn. thin slice, shard, sliver, shaving; see bit 1 , flake ,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 74chip — 01. We bought some fish and [chips] for lunch and took them to the park to eat. 02. Someone threw a rock at my car and [chipped] the windshield. 03. We mixed some raisins and nuts and dried banana [chips] to have for a snack. 04. Let s get some… …

    Grammatical examples in English

  • 75chip — 1. noun 1) wood chips Syn: fragment, sliver, splinter, shaving, paring, flake 2) a chip in the glass Syn: nick, crack, scratch, notch; flaw, fault 3) …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 76chip in — phrasal verb Word forms chip in : present tense I/you/we/they chip in he/she/it chips in present participle chipping in past tense chipped in past participle chipped in informal 1) [intransitive] to add something to someone else s conversation… …

    English dictionary

  • 77chip — 1) fish chip (a delicatessen, potato chip like product made of equal parts of fish and potato) 2) potato chip fired in fat or oil and often served with fried fish (fish and chips) 3) said of salmon, to cut the surface of the water without leaping …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 78chip — (Voz inglesa.) ► sustantivo masculino 1 INFORMÁTICA Placa de silicio que contiene un gran número de microcircuitos electrónicos, que constituye un circuito integrado. IRREG. plural chips 2 DEPORTES Jugada de aproximación en el golf, en la cual se …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 79chip — v. To implant a microchip, particularly a radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder, into an animal or person. chipping pp. Example Citations: Predictions have a habit of not coming true. We don t holiday on Saturn. Jacques Cousteau… …

    New words

  • 80chip — [OE] Old English cipp meant ‘share beam of a plough’ (a sense paralleled in related forms in other Germanic languages, such as Dutch kip ‘plough beam’ and Old Norse keppr ‘stick’). This seems a far cry from the modern use of chip, for which there …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins