chip

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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noun, verb
+ noun
1 the place from which a small piece of wood, glass, etc. has broken from an object: This mug has a chip in it.
2 a small piece of wood, glass, etc. that has broken off an object: chips of wood + chocolate chip cookies (= biscuits containing small pieces of chocolate)
3 (BrE) (also French fry, fry AmE, BrE) [usually pl.] a long thin piece of potato fried in oil or fat: All main courses are served with chips or baked potato.
See also - FISH AND CHIPS
4 (AmE) = CRISP: potato chips
5 = MICROCHIP: chip technology
See also - V-CHIP
6 a small flat piece of plastic used to represent a particular amount of money in some types of gambling: (figurative) The release of prisoners was used as a bargaining chip.
7 (also chip shot) (in golf, football, etc.) an act of hitting or kicking a ball high in the air so that it lands within a short distance: She left herself with a short chip to the green.
See also - BLUE-CHIP
Idioms: a chip off the old block (informal) a person who is very similar to their mother or father in the way that they look or behave
have a chip on your shoulder (about sth) (informal) to be sensitive about sth that happened in the past and become easily offended if it is mentioned because you think that you were treated unfairly: He has a real chip on his shoulder about being adopted.
have had your chips (BrE, informal) to be in a situation in which you are certain to be defeated or killed
when the chips are down (informal) used to refer to a difficult situation in which you are forced to decide what is important to you: I'm not sure what I'll do when the chips are down. + When the chips are down he always finds the courage to carry on.
+ verb (-pp-)
1 to damage sth by breaking a small piece off it; to become damaged in this way: [VN] a badly chipped saucer + She chipped one of her front teeth. + [V] These plates chip easily.
2 [VN +adv./prep.] to cut or break small pieces off sth with a tool: Chip away the damaged area. + The fossils had been chipped out of the rock. + It took a long time to chip a hole in the wall. + It needs skill to chip a block of stone into a recognizable shape.
3 [VN, V] (especially in golf and football) to hit or kick the ball so that it goes high in the air and then lands within a short distance
4 [VN] ~ potatoes (BrE) to cut potatoes into long thin pieces and fry them in deep oil
Phrasal Verbs: chip away at sth to keep breaking small pieces off sth: He was chipping away at the stone. + (figurative) They chipped away at the power of the government (= gradually made it weaker).
chip in (with sth) (informal)
1 to join in or interrupt a conversation; to add sth to a conversation or discussion: Pete and Anne chipped in with suggestions. + [+ speech] 'That's different,' she chipped in.
2 (also chip in sth) to give some money so that a group of people can buy sth together: If everyone chips in we'll be able to buy her a really nice present. + We each chipped in (with) £4.
chip off
chip sth<->off to damage sth by breaking a small piece off it; to be damaged in this way: He chipped off a piece of his tooth. + Use a good varnish that will not chip off.(also chip)
+ noun
a very small piece of a material that is a SEMICONDUCTOR, used to carry a complicated electronic CIRCUIT

Thesaurus dictionary

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n.

1 fragment, piece, shard or sherd, splinter, flake, sliver, scrap, morsel, bit:

A chip of slate rattled down off the roof.

2 counter, marker, token; plaque, US check:

He put his chip on number 14.

v.

3 chisel, whittle, hew:

He chipped away at the stone till it fitted perfectly into the hole.

4 chip in.

(a) contribute; participate:

All the neighbours chipped in to pay for the street decorations.

(b) interrupt, break in, intrude, interfere, intercede, interpose, Colloq chime in:

Clive chipped in with his usual silly comment.

Collocation dictionary

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¹ (usually chips) long thin piece of fried potato

ADJ.

greasy | frozen, oven-ready

QUANT.

bag, plate

VERB + CHIP

eat, have

All he'll eat is chips.

| live on

I never cook anything grand?we live on chips and baked beans.

| cook, fry

CHIP + NOUN

pan | shop

PHRASES

and/with chips

fish and chips > Special page at FOOD

² microchip

ADJ.

computer, silicon | graphics, memory, microprocessor

VERB + CHIP

make, manufacture, produce | design, develop | use

This computer uses the DX chip.

CHIP + VERB

contain sth

a chip containing the coding devices

CHIP + NOUN

design, technology | set

a Pentium-compatible chip set

PREP.

on a/the ~

Advances in chip technology have made it possible to pack even more circuits on a chip. > Special page at COMPUTER

Concise English dictionary

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chipped|chipping|chipstʃɪp
noun
+a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
+a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
+a piece of dried bovine dung
+a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
+a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
+a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling
+electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
+a low running approach shot
+the act of chipping something
verb
+break off (a piece from a whole)
+cut a nick into
+play a chip shot
+form by chipping
+break a small piece off from

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