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Chips   /tʃɪps/   Listen
Chips

noun
1.
Strips of potato fried in deep fat.  Synonyms: french-fried potatoes, french fries, fries.


Chip

noun
1.
A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.  Synonyms: bit, flake, fleck, scrap.
2.
A triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line.
3.
A piece of dried bovine dung.  Synonyms: buffalo chip, cow chip, cow dung.
4.
A thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat.  Synonyms: crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip.
5.
A mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something.  Synonym: check.
6.
A small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling.  Synonym: poker chip.
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.  Synonyms: micro chip, microchip, microprocessor chip, silicon chip.
8.
(golf) a low running approach shot.  Synonym: chip shot.
9.
The act of chipping something.  Synonyms: chipping, splintering.
verb
(past & past part. chipped; pres. part. chipping)
1.
Break off (a piece from a whole).  Synonyms: break away, break off, chip off, come off.
2.
Cut a nick into.  Synonym: nick.
3.
Play a chip shot.
4.
Form by chipping.
5.
Break a small piece off from.  Synonyms: break off, cut off, knap.  "Chip a tooth"



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"Chips" Quotes from Famous Books



... these fully dealt with in the bookbinding manuals. White and black we are warned against especially. The bookbinding authorities tell us that vellum, if exposed to a strong light, perishes and chips off like egg-shell; and we are warned to place vellum bound volumes with their backs to the wall, lettering the fore-edge with pen and ink, as was often done of old. But if kept away from the windows this precaution seems to be unnecessary. The beautiful brown vellum used for binding and repairing ...
— The Book-Hunter at Home • P. B. M. Allan
... Rixonite parishioners—that they should sit there Sunday after Sunday, year in and year out, and listen to his beautiful sermons, which ought to melt their hearts and bring tears into their eyes, and not seem influenced by them any more than if they were so many dry chips. ...
— A Pair of Patient Lovers • William Dean Howells
... weather developed sudden. One evening me and Cap'n Jonadab and Peter T. was having a confab by the steps of the billiard-room, when Milo beats up from around the corner. He was smiling as a basket of chips. ...
— Cape Cod Stories - The Old Home House • Joseph C. Lincoln
... a single gun how different it would be! We could parade it boldly under the enemy's nose; sweep his barricades and his advanced lines away in a cloud of dust and brick-chips; bombard his camps which we have located; make him sorry and ashamed ... as it is we can do nothing; we have not a single piece which can be called serious artillery; and we must suffer the segment which ...
— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale
... on his tongue, No whistle on his lips; But with a quiet thoughtfulness His trusty tool he grips, And, stroke on stroke, keeps hacking out The bright and flying chips. ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood


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