chip
130
2.1
- noun
- /tʃɪp/
:
astilla
- Wood fiber products such as crates, wood chips, pallets, and sawdust are marketed to industrial customers.
- wood chips
- paint chips
- wood chips for compost
So it's not paint shipping, but little chips of styrene strip.
- So it's not paint shipping, but little chips of styrene strip.
Examples
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The chip is functioning properly.
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He would come home, he would be covered in dust and dirt, paint chips, from his day's work.
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So it's something over this side of the chip, this bit here.
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If you have a look at this chip, you see it's intact.
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A dealer picks up some chips from a rack and places them on the table.
Fiction book (1995) -
The crow pecks the top of the stone again, and a chip of granite flies off, bang!
Fiction book (1994) -
Dents are dents: a paint chip, a spot of rust, a plastic ding.
Fiction book (1994) -
Please be careful with that cup; it has a small chip on the rim.
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The artist added color to the canvas, but you can still see the chip from when it fell.
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After dropping the plate, I noticed a chip near the edge that made it unusable.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small piece or amount of something, for example food
184
3.2
A small piece broken off something larger
179
2.1
A small piece left over or thrown away
126
2.3
A small thin flat piece that breaks off from something larger like snow or paint
51
3.9
A very thin small piece cut or broken from something like wood
24
4.3
A very small spot that stands out on a surface
5
5.8
A small chip or notch in the surface of something
1
7.4
A small broken piece of an object, like coral or pottery
1
4.1
A small piece you cut off with scissors or shears
1
4.6
A small cut or mark on a surface that appears when something hits it
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
7
4.4
A person who is very like one of their parents in looks or behaviour
- Informal
Strong anger or hurt about being treated unfairly in the past
Compounds
- Specialized
4
4.1
A share of a large, well-known company that is safe and pays steady dividends
- Specialized
3
3.7
A small, flat piece of material with tiny electronic parts that makes computers and phones work
- Specialized
1
6.1
A short low golf shot that makes the ball run along the ground toward the hole
- Specialized
1
4.4
An electronic device put in the brain that records and plays back a person's past events or feelings
- Specialized
1
4.4
A small electronic part inside a device that controls its actions and calculations
- Specialized
A small device with many tiny DNA pieces that tests many genes in a sample
How Damaged
849
3.0
17
4.2
2
4.4
311
1.0
130
2.1
46
1.0
203
1.6
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chip comes from an old English word cipp meaning 'a small piece or block', so a chip is literally a small broken piece of wood, stone, or other material.