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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun from Middle English chip , chippe , from Old English ċipp ( “ chip; small piece of wood, shaving ” ) , from Old English *ċippian ( “ to cut; hew ” ) – attested in Old English forċippian ( “ to cut off ” ) –, from Proto-West Germanic *kippōn ( “ to cut; carve; hack; chop ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *kippōną ( “ to chip, chop ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyb- ( “ to split; divide; germinate; sprout ” ) . Related to Dutch kip , keep ( “ notch; nick; score ” ) , Dutch kippen ( “ to hatch ” ) , German Low German kippen ( “ to cut; clip; trim; shorten ” ) , German kipfen ( “ to chop off the tip; snip ” ) , Old Swedish kippa ( “ to chop ” ) . Compare also chop .
The formally similar Old English ċipp , ċypp , ċyp ( “ a beam; log; stock; post ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *kippaz ( “ log; beam ” ) (whence Old Saxon kip ( “ post ” ) , Old High German kipfa , chipfa ( “ axle, stave ” ) , Old Norse keppr ( “ cudgel, club ” ) ) is a different, unrelated word either borrowed from Latin cippus ( “ stake; pale; post ” ) or borrowed from the same source language as the Latin.
Verb from Middle English chippen , from Old English *ċippian ( “ to cut; hew ” ) – attested in Old English forċippian ( “ to cut off ” ) – see above.
Noun
chip (plural chips )
A computer chip .
A plate of potato chips (UK).
A pile of potato chips (US).
A bowl of chocolate chips .
Jack 'n Jill Nova Chip.
A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
Synonyms: flake , fragment ; see also Thesaurus:piece
The floor of the sculptor's studio was strewn with chips of marble.
1851 , Herman Melville , Moby Dick , Chapter 3:The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
This cup has a chip in it.
( games , gambling ) A token used in place of cash.
2002 , Albert H. Moorehead, Hoyle′s Rules of Games , page 46 :If the second player does raise three chips , and all the other players drop, the player who opened may stay in by putting three more chips in the pot, for then he will have put in precisely as many chips as the second player.
A medallion .
2023 , Thomas Thurnell-Read, Mark Monaghan, Intoxication: Self, State and Society , page 135 :AA chips showing duration of abstinence (6 months)
( slang , dated ) A sovereign ( the coin ) .
( electronics ) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate ; a microchip .
Synonyms: IC , integrated circuit , microchip , silicon chip
1986 September 1, Tom Moran, Lisa L. Spiegelman, New Chip Said to Contain Seven PC AT Chip Functions , InfoWorld , page 5 ,
But sources close to the company said the chip contains two direct memory access controllers, two interrupt controllers, a timer, a memory mapper from Texas Instruments, and a Motorola Inc. real-time clock.
( electronics ) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical or biochemical devices.
2002 , Koji Ikuta, Atsushi Takahashi, Kota Ikeda, Shoji Maruo, User-Assembly Fully Integrated Micro Chemical Laboratory Using Biochemical IC Chips for Wearable/Implantable Applications , Yoshinobu Baba, Shuichi Shoji, Albert van den Berg (editors), Micro Total Analysis Systems 2002: Proceedings of the μTAS 2002 Symposium , Volume 1, page 38 ,
Fig. 4(a) shows a schematic design of the micropump chip .
2007 , Elisabeth S. Papazoglou, Aravind Parthasarathy, Bionanotechnology , page 6 :Fig. 0.3 is an image of the front and back views of a drug delivery microchip made of silicon and painted with gold, with a U.S. dime (10 cents). The chip in the picture consists of 34 nano-sized wells each of which is capable of housing 24 nl (nano liters) of drug. It is possible to make at least 400 wells or even 1000 or more in these chips which are very inexpensive, costing less tham $20 .
( UK , Ireland , Australia , New Zealand , archaic in Canada , usually in the plural ) A deep-fried strip of potato ; see also usage note at french fries .
Synonyms: fries , ( mainly North America ) fry , ( mainly North America ) French fry
Do you want ketchup, mustard, or mayonnaise on your chips ?
Fish and chips is a traditional British dish.
( US , Canada , Australia and New Zealand , especially in the plural ) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato , a crisp ; occasionally a similar fried slice of another vegetable or dried fruit.
Synonym: ( UK, Ireland ) crisp
A type of shot in various sports.
( sports such as soccer) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport :Oxlade-Chamberlain saw his attempted chip well blocked by goalkeeper Costanzo at the start of the second half.
( tennis ) A light shot with a downward slice , usually played from close to the net .
( golf ) A low shot, usually played at short range around and onto a green, intended to travel a short distance through the air and roll the remainder of the way towards the hole.
( cue sports ) A very light shot that hits the cue ball so softly that it barely moves an object ball into a pocket without the cue ball going in as well.
( curling ) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
A dried piece of dung , often used as fuel.
( New Zealand , northern) A receptacle , usually for strawberries or other fruit.
Synonyms: ( British, New Zealand, Australia ) punnet , ( New Zealand, southern ) pottle
( cooking ) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
chocolate chip
A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
( nautical ) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
( historical ) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
( archaic , derogatory ) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
The smallest amount; a whit or jot .
1858 , R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island :One captain that I sailed with was not a chip better than the one we’re with now.
Usage notes
In New Zealand and Australia, where the term chip(s) can refer to either french fried potatoes or deep-fried potato slices, the dishes are distinguished as "hot chips" (french fried potatoes) or, in New Zealand, "cold chips" (deep-fried potato slices) when clarity is needed.
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Basque: txip
→ Bulgarian: чипс ( čips )
→ Catalan: xip
→ Czech: čip
→ Danish: chip , chips
→ Dutch: chip , chips
→ Ewe: tšipsid
→ Finnish: sipsi , chipsi , chips
→ French: chips
→ Galician: chip
→ Georgian: ჩიპსი ( čiṗsi )
→ German: Chip
→ Greek: τσιπ ( tsip ) , τσιπάκι ( tsipáki )
→ Hebrew: צִ׳יפְּס , צִ׳יפּ (chips, chip)
→ Hijazi Arabic: تشبس ( tšips, tšibs ) , شبس ( šips, šibs )
→ Hungarian: csip , csipsz , chip , chips
→ Indonesian: cip
→ Italian: chip
→ Japanese: チップ ( chippu ) , チップス ( chippusu )
→ Khmer: ឈីប ( chiip )
→ Korean: 칩 ( chip ) , 칩스 ( chipseu )
→ Latvian: čipsis
→ Macedonian: чипс ( čips ) , чип ( čip )
→ Norwegian: chips
→ Persian: چیپس ( čips )
→ Polish: czip , czips , chip , chips
→ Portuguese: chipe , chip , chips
→ Romanian: chips , cip
→ Russian: чипс ( čips ) , чип ( čip )
^ → Armenian: չիպ ( čʻip )
→ Serbo-Croatian:
→ Slovene: čips
→ Spanish: chip , chips
→ Swahili: chipsi , chips
→ Swedish: chips , chipp
→ Turkish: cips , çip
→ Ukrainian: чипс ( čyps ) , чип ( čyp )
→ Welsh: tsip
→ Yiddish: טשיפּל ( tshipl )
Translations
small piece broken off
Azerbaijani: çöp (az)
Basque: puxka
Bulgarian: треска (bg) f ( treska ) , отломка (bg) f ( otlomka ) , счупено парче n ( sčupeno parče )
Estonian: kild (et) , laast , pilbas
Faroese: spónur m , splintur n , flís f
Finnish: siru (fi) , lastu (fi)
French: brisure (fr) f , fragment (fr)
Galician: racha f , lasca f
German: Splitter (de) m , Span (de) m , Bruchstück (de) n
Greek: πελεκούδι (el) ( pelekoúdi ) , ροκανίδι (el) n ( rokanídi ) , θραύσμα (el) n ( thráfsma )
Ancient: λατύπη f ( latúpē ) , τραύξανα n pl ( traúxana )
Hebrew: שְׁבָב (he) m ( shvav )
Hungarian: darabka (hu) , szilánk (hu) , forgács (hu)
Ingrian: kisko , päre
Irish: scealpóg f
Italian: frammento (it) , scheggia (it) f
Latin: assula f
Maori: rutunga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: flis m or f , skår (no) n
Nynorsk: flis f , skar (nn) n
Polish: odłamek (pl) m
Portuguese: lasca (pt) , fragmento (pt)
Romanian: surcea (ro) f , așchie (ro) f , fragment (ro) n
Russian: ще́пка (ru) f ( ščépka ) , лучи́на (ru) f ( lučína ) , стру́жка (ru) f ( strúžka ) of wood ; оско́лок (ru) m ( oskólok ) , обло́мок (ru) m ( oblómok )
Sanskrit: खण्ड (sa) n ( khaṇḍa )
Scottish Gaelic: sliseag f
Slovene: košček m , odkrušek m
Spanish: astilla (es) f , cepa (es) f , fragmento (es) m
Swedish: flisa (sv) c
Tagalog: bingas
damaged area of a surface
integrated circuit
Armenian: չիպ (hy) ( čʻip )
Basque: txip
Catalan: xip (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 芯片 (zh) ( xīnpiàn ) , 晶片 (zh) ( jīngpiàn ) ( Taiwan )
Czech: chip m , čip m
Dutch: chip (nl) m
Esperanto: kristalo , splito
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: siru (fi) , piisiru (fi)
French: puce électronique (fr) f
Galician: chip m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Chip (de) m
Greek: πλακίδιο ολοκληρωμένου κυκλώματος n ( plakídio olokliroménou kyklómatos ) , ( informal ) τσιπάκι (el) n ( tsipáki )
Hebrew: צ׳יפ m ( čip ) , שְׁבָב (he) m ( shvav )
Hungarian: chip (hu) , csip (hu) , lapka (hu)
Indonesian: cip (id)
Italian: chip (it)
Japanese: チップ (ja) ( chippu )
Khmer: ឈីប (km) ( chiip )
Korean: 칩 ( chip )
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: интегра́лно коло n ( integrálno kolo ) , чип m ( čip )
Maori: mōtete
Polish: chip (pl) m , kostka (pl) f , kość (pl) f , scalak (pl) m , układ scalony (pl) m
Portuguese: chipe (pt) m , circuito integrado (pt)
Romanian: cip (ro) n
Russian: микросхе́ма (ru) f ( mikrosxéma ) , чип (ru) m ( čip )
Scottish Gaelic: sgealb f
Slovene: čip m
Spanish: chip (es) m , microchip m
Swahili: chipu
Swedish: chips (sv) n , krets (sv) c
Thai: ชิป ( chíp )
Turkish: çip (tr)
Ukrainian: чип m ( čyp )
Vietnamese: vi mạch (vi) , mạch tích hợp (vi) , vi mạch tích hợp
Yiddish: טשיפּל n ( tshipl ) , קאָמפּיוטער־טשיפּל n ( kompyuter-tshipl )
Afrikaans: skyfie
Arabic:
Hijazi Arabic: تشبس ( tšips, tšibs ) , شبس ( šips, šibs )
Bulgarian: чипс pl ( čips )
Catalan: xip (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 片 (yue) ( pin3-2 )
Mandarin: 片 (zh) ( piàn )
Cornish: ( collective ) asklos , asklosen f
Danish: chips , fransk kartoffel
Dutch: chips (nl) pl
Esperanto: ĉipso
Estonian: kartulikrõpsud pl , krõpsud (et) pl , tšipsid pl ( colloquial )
Faroese: kips n
Finnish: sipsi (fi) , lastu (fi)
French: chips (fr) f , croustille (fr) f ( Canada )
Georgian: ჩიპსი ( čiṗsi )
German: Chip (de) m , Kartoffelchip (de) m
Greek: πατατάκι (el) n ( patatáki )
Hebrew: צִ׳יפְּס m ( chips ) , חטיף תפוחי אדמה m ( khatíf tapukhéi adamá ) ( formal ) , תפוצ׳יפס m ( tápuchips ) ( colloquial, genericized brand name )
Hungarian: burgonyaszirom (hu) , hasábburgonya (hu) , rósejbni (hu)
Icelandic: flaga (is) f , kartöfluflaga f
Indonesian: keripik (id)
Italian: patatine (it) f pl , patatine fritte f pl
Japanese: チップス ( chippusu )
Khmer: បន្ទះស្រួយ ( bɑɑntĕəhhruəy )
Korean: 칩스 ( chipseu ) , 감자칩 ( gamjachip ) , 칩 ( chip )
Latvian: čipsis
Lithuanian: traškutis m
Macedonian: чипс m ( čips )
Malay: kerepek
Maltese: krips pl
Maori: tītipi , kotakota
Norwegian: potetgull n , chips m
Persian: چیپس (fa) ( čips )
Polish: chips (pl) m , czips (pl) m
Portuguese: batata frita (pt) f
Romanian: chips (ro) n
Russian: чипс (ru) m ( čips )
Scottish Gaelic: criosp m , sliseag f
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: čips (sh) m
Slovene: čips m
Spanish: chip (es) f , chip (es) m ( rare )
Swedish: chips (sv) n
Thai: มันฝรั่ง ทอด ( man-fà-ràng-tɔ̂ɔt )
Turkish: cips (tr)
Ukrainian: чи́пси m pl ( čýpsy )
Vietnamese: bim bim (vi)
Welsh: creisionen f , crispen f
White Hmong: siv
shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot
curling: takeout that hits a rock at an angle
Translations to be checked
See also
Verb
chip (third-person singular simple present chips , present participle chipping , simple past and past participle chipped )
( transitive ) To chop or cut into small pieces.
The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch .
2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London) , page G8:Once it became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on).
( transitive ) To break small pieces from.
Be careful not to chip the paint.
( intransitive ) To become chipped.
This varnish chips easily.
( transitive , dialectal ) To chisel (something), to chisel on (something).
The fitter was chipping and filing a workpiece clamped in his vise.
( intransitive , dialectal ) To use a chisel .
The fitters were chipping and filing furiously to meet their deadline.
( transitive , sports ) To strike or play (the ball or other implement) as a chip shot.
2014 October 18, Paul Doyle , “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter ”, in The Guardian :Koeman identified Southampton’s third as their finest goal of the game. Jack Cork, the most underrated player at a much-lauded club, swept the ball out wide to Tadic, who waited for Cork to run to the back post before chipping the ball across to him to slam in a deserved goal from close range, despite an attempted block by Vito Mannone.
( transitive , sports such as soccer) To beat (an opposing player) by use of a chip shot, such as by looping the ball over the head of the opposing goalkeeper.
2016 March 13, Andy Edwards, “VIDEO: San Jose’s Quincy Amarikwa chips, goes upper-90 from 35 yards out ”, in NBCSports.com :Typically when someone scores a stunning goal this early in the season — it’s only Week 2 — it gets forgotten, or at the very least lost in the shuffle after eight more months of worthy GOTY candidates. Not this year, though, because no one is forgetting Amarikwa chipping Adam Kwarasey from 35 yards out and burying the ball in the top corner.
( transitive , cue sports) To move (a ball) a relatively short distance by means of an oblique contact.
In potting the black, he also managed to chip the red off the side cushion.
( transitive , informal ) To fit (an animal) with a microchip .
( transitive , automotive ) To upgrade an engine management system , usually to increase power.
( intransitive , card games , often with "in") To ante (up ).
( UK , transitive , often with "in") To contribute .
Everyone needs to chip in £1 for George's leaving collection.
( also to chip at ) To make fun of .
1923 , George Bernard Shaw , Saint Joan :They chip me about giving that young judy the cross; but I dont care: I stand up to them proper, and tell them that if she hadnt a better right to it than they, she'd be where they are.
1925 July – 1926 May , A Conan Doyle , “(please specify the chapter number) ”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia , published April 2019:That sounded a trivial message, but the man began to cry. 'That's her', he sobbed. 'She was always chipping me about my collars'.
Derived terms
Translations
to chop or cut into small pieces
to break small pieces from
to play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards
Translations to be checked
Etymology 2
Verb
chip (third-person singular simple present chips , present participle chipping , simple past and past participle chipped )
( UK , slang , intransitive ) To leave .
2012 , Zadie Smith , NW , London: Penguin Books, published 2013 , →ISBN , page 109 :‘Lloyd, I’m gonna chip .’ ‘You just got here!’ ‘I know–but I gotta chip . Got shit to do.’
See also
Further reading
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English chip .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /tɕip/ ,
Hyphenation: chip
Noun
chip c (singular definite chippen , plural indefinite chips or chip )
( electronics , computing ) a chip ( one-piece circuit or hybrid device containing a circuit and another device )
Declension
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English chip .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /tʃɪp/
Hyphenation: chip
Rhymes: -ɪp
Noun
chip m (plural chips , diminutive chipje n )
( electronics , computing ) a chip ( one-piece circuit or hybrid device containing a circuit and another device )
Derived terms
Galician
Etymology
Borrowed from English chip .
Noun
chip m (plural chips )
chip ( circuit )
Derived terms
Further reading
Hokkien
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English chip .
Pronunciation
Noun
chip
superseded spelling of csip
Declension
References
Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
chip m
lenited form of cip
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English chip .
Pronunciation
Noun
chip m (invariable )
chip ( small electronic component )
References
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
chip
alternative form of chippe
Etymology 2
Noun
chip
alternative form of schip
Polish
chip
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English chip .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈt͡ʂip/
Rhymes: -ip
Syllabification: chip
Noun
chip m animal or m inan (related adjective chipowy )
( computing , electronics ) chip , microchip , computer chip , integrated circuit ( small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors )
Synonyms: ( colloquial ) kostka , ( colloquial ) kość , ( colloquial ) scalak , układ scalony
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
chip in Wielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
chip in Polish dictionaries at PWN
chip in PWN's encyclopedia
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English chip .
Pronunciation
Noun
chip m (plural chips ) ( proscribed , unadapted spelling)
alternative form of chipe
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Hungarian kép ( “ image ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
chip n (plural chipuri )
face , likeness
Synonym: față f
2003 , “Dragostea din tei ”, performed by O-Zone :Chipul tău și dragostea din tei Mi-amintesc de ochii tăi.Your face and the love from the linden Remind me of your eyes.
picture , image
Synonym: imagine f
Declension
Derived terms
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English chip .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈt͡ʃip/
Rhymes: -ip
Syllabification: chip
Noun
chip m (plural chips )
chip ( circuit )
Derived terms
Further reading
Vietnamese
Etymology
Borrowed from English chip .
Pronunciation
Noun
(classifier con ) chip
( electronics ) chip ; microchip
Synonym: vi mạch