chipping
- noun
- /ˈʧɪpɪŋ/
- Specialized
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microchip
- Veterinarians recommend micro-chipping your pet to ensure they can be identified if they get lost.
- micro-chipping
It was the idea of putting a chip in your arm, right?
- It was the idea of putting a chip in your arm, right?
Examples
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This is a good place for chipping.
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Chipping Birds - Growth Chart
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Another guy from Yale that did some weird stuff at Yale too, implanted a chip in a bull's brain.
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(mobile phone chipping)
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Like do you have any collars or like they're going to start getting towards chips now as well to put in animals to track them or you still don't have that as well?
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The adoption fee includes vaccinations, micro-chipping, and spay or neuter surgery, as well as heartworm screening for dogs and FeLV testing for cats.
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The festival includes a vaccination clinic, micro-chipping, rescue dogs, information booths, food, fun pet-related activities, pet-related vendors, raffles, a pet talent contest, a pet costume contest, and a pet parade.
Compounds
A small North American bird with a reddish crown common in gardens and parks
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Morphology
chipping = chip (semi-transparent) = chip + ing
This is a regular gerund of the verb 'to chip', but the verb sense 'to implant a microchip' is a specialized modern usage that not all learners will know.
Etymology
Chipping here comes from chip, 'a small piece', and from the device called a microchip. So chipping means putting a tiny electronic chip into an animal or object so it can be identified later.