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C0306000 (chĭp) n. 1. A small broken or cut off piece, as of wood, stone, or glass. 2. A crack or flaw caused by the removal of a small piece. 3. a. A small disk or counter used in poker and other games to represent money. b. chips Slang Money. 4. See microchip.5. a. A thin, usually fried slice of food, especially a potato chip: ate chips with her sandwich. b. A very small piece of food or candy: made cookies with chocolate chips. c. chips Chiefly British French fries. 6. Wood, palm leaves, straw, or similar material cut and dried for weaving. 7. A fragment of dried animal dung used as fuel. 8. Something worthless. 9. Sports A chip shot. v. chipped, chip·ping, chips v. tr. 1. To chop or cut with an axe or other implement. 2. a. To break a small piece from: chip a tooth. b. To break or cut off (a small piece): chip ice from the window. 3. To shape or carve by cutting or chopping: chipped her name in the stone. 4. To implant a microchip in (an organism). v. intr. 1. To become broken off into small pieces. 2. Sports To make a chip shot in golf. Phrasal Verbs: chip away To reduce or make progress on something incrementally: We chipped away until the problem was solved. chip in 1. To contribute money or labor: We all chipped in for beer. 2. To interrupt with comments; interject. 3. To put up chips or money as one's bet in poker and other games. Idioms: chip off the old block A child whose appearance or character closely resembles that of one or the other parent. chip on (one's) shoulder A habitually hostile or combative attitude, especially in response to perceived slights. when the chips are down At a critical or difficult time.

[Middle English, from Old English cyp, beam, from Latin cippus.]

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C0306000 (chĭp)intr.v. chipped, chip·ping, chips To cheep, as a bird.

[Imitative.]

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C0306000 (chĭp)n. Sports A trick method of throwing one's opponent in wrestling.

[Origin unknown.]

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(tʃɪp) n1. a small piece removed by chopping, cutting, or breaking2. a mark left after a small piece has been chopped, cut, or broken off something3. (Games, other than specified) (in some games) a counter used to represent money4. (Cookery) Brit a thin strip of potato fried in deep fat5. (Cookery) US and Canadian a very thin slice of potato fried and eaten cold as a snack. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): crisp 6. (Cookery) a small piece or thin slice of food7. (General Sporting Terms) sport a shot, kick, etc, lofted into the air, esp over an obstacle or an opposing player's head, and travelling only a short distance8. (Electronics) electronics a tiny wafer of semiconductor material, such as silicon, processed to form a type of integrated circuit or component such as a transistor9. (Crafts) a thin strip of wood or straw used for making woven hats, baskets, etc10. (Agriculture) NZ a container for soft fruit, made of thin sheets of wood; punnet11. cheap as chips informal Brit inexpensive; good value12. chip off the old block informal a person who resembles one of his or her parents in behaviour13. have a chip on one's shoulder informal to be aggressively sensitive about a particular thing or bear a grudge14. have had one's chips informal Brit to be defeated, condemned to die, killed, etc15. when the chips are down informal at a time of crisis or testingvb, chips, chipping or chipped16. to break small pieces from or become broken off in small pieces: will the paint chip?. 17. (tr) to break or cut into small pieces: to chip ice. 18. (tr) to shape by chipping19. (General Sporting Terms) sport to strike or kick (a ball) in a high arc[Old English cipp (n), cippian (vb), of obscure origin] ˈchipper n

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n., v. chipped, chip•ping. n. 1. a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking. 2. a very thin slice or small piece of food, candy, etc.: chocolate chips. 3. a mark or flaw made by the breaking off or gouging out of a small piece: This glass has a chip. 4. any of the small round disks, used as tokens for money in roulette, poker, and some other gambling games; counter. 5. Also called microchip. a tiny slice of semiconducting material on which a transistor or an integrated circuit is formed. 6. anything trivial or worthless. 7. a piece of dried dung: buffalo chips. 8. chip shot. 9. Tennis. a softly sliced return shot with heavy backspin. 10. chips, Chiefly Brit. French fries. v.t. 11. to hew or cut with an ax, chisel, etc. 12. to break off or gouge out (a bit or fragment): to chip a piece of ice from a large block. 13. to cut or break a bit or fragment from: to chip a tooth. 14. to shape or produce by cutting or flaking away pieces: to chip a figure out of wood. 15. Tennis. to slice (a ball) on a return shot, producing backspin. v.i. 16. to break off in small pieces. 17. to make a chip shot. 18. chip in, a. to give as one's share; contribute: We each chipped in five dollars. b. to share a cost or burden by giving money or aid: to chip in on a birthday cake. Idioms: 1. chip off the old block, a person who strongly resembles one parent in appearance or behavior. 2. chip on one's shoulder, an antagonistic or quarrelsome disposition. [1300–50; (n.) Middle English; compare Old English cipp plowshare, beam (v.) late Middle English chippen; compare Old English -cippian in forcippian to cut off; akin to Middle Low German, Middle Dutch kippen to chip, hatch] chip′pa•ble, adj.

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v. chipped, chip•ping,
n. v.i. 1. to chirp or squeak; cheep. n. 2. a chirp or squeak; cheep. [1880–85; variant of cheep]

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(chĭp) See integrated circuit.

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Past participle: chipped
Gerund: chipping

Imperative
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Present
I chip
you chip
he/she/it chips
we chip
you chip
they chip

Preterite
I chipped
you chipped
he/she/it chipped
we chipped
you chipped
they chipped

Present Continuous
I am chipping
you are chipping
he/she/it is chipping
we are chipping
you are chipping
they are chipping

Present Perfect
I have chipped
you have chipped
he/she/it has chipped
we have chipped
you have chipped
they have chipped

Past Continuous
I was chipping
you were chipping
he/she/it was chipping
we were chipping
you were chipping
they were chipping

Past Perfect
I had chipped
you had chipped
he/she/it had chipped
we had chipped
you had chipped
they had chipped

Future
I will chip
you will chip
he/she/it will chip
we will chip
you will chip
they will chip

Future Perfect
I will have chipped
you will have chipped
he/she/it will have chipped
we will have chipped
you will have chipped
they will have chipped

Future Continuous
I will be chipping
you will be chipping
he/she/it will be chipping
we will be chipping
you will be chipping
they will be chipping

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been chipping
you have been chipping
he/she/it has been chipping
we have been chipping
you have been chipping
they have been chipping

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been chipping
you will have been chipping
he/she/it will have been chipping
we will have been chipping
you will have been chipping
they will have been chipping

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been chipping
you had been chipping
he/she/it had been chipping
we had been chipping
you had been chipping
they had been chipping

Conditional
I would chip
you would chip
he/she/it would chip
we would chip
you would chip
they would chip

Past Conditional
I would have chipped
you would have chipped
he/she/it would have chipped
we would have chipped
you would have chipped
they would have chipped

chip

1. A tiny bit of silicon on which electronic circuits are printed.2. Short, lofted approach shot.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	chip - a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"fleck, scrap, bit, flakefragment - a piece broken off or cut off of something else; "a fragment of rock"matchwood - fragments of wood; "it was smashed into matchwood"exfoliation, scurf, scale - a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skinscurf - (botany) a covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant partssliver, splinter - a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it broke into slivers"
	2.	chip - a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log linesailing, seafaring, navigation - the work of a sailorfloat - something that floats on the surface of water
	3.	chip - a piece of dried bovine dungbuffalo chip, cow chip, cow dungdroppings, dung, muck - fecal matter of animals
	4.	chip - a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fatcrisp, potato chip, Saratoga chipsnack food - food for light meals or for eating between meals
	5.	chip - a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of somethingcheckblemish, mar, defect - a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish"
	6.	chip - a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gamblingpoker chipblue chip - a blue poker chip with the highest valuecounter - game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games
	7.	chip - electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuitmicro chip, microchip, microprocessor chip, silicon chipbiochip - a microchip that uses tiny strands of DNA to latch onto and quickly recognize thousands of genes at a time; intended for use in a biological environmentcomputer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system - a machine for performing calculations automaticallyDNA chip, gene chip - a microchip that holds DNA probes that form half of the DNA double helix and can recognize DNA from samples being testedintegrated circuit, microcircuit - a microelectronic computer circuit incorporated into a chip or semiconductor; a whole system rather than a single componentmemory chip - a RAM microchip that can be plugged into a computer to provide additional memorymicroprocessor - integrated circuit semiconductor chip that performs the bulk of the processing and controls the parts of a system; "a microprocessor functions as the central processing unit of a microcomputer"; "a disk drive contains a microprocessor to handle the internal functions of the drive"semiconductor device, semiconductor unit, semiconductor - a conductor made with semiconducting material
	8.	chip - (golf) a low running approach shot chip shotgolf, golf game - a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holesapproach shot, approach - a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green; "he lost the hole when his approach rolled over the green"
	9.	chip - the act of chipping something chipping, splinteringbreaking, breakage, break - the act of breaking something; "the breakage was unavoidable"
Verb	1.	chip - break off (a piece from a whole); "Her tooth chipped"chip off, break away, break off, come offflake off, peel, flake, peel off - come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"exfoliate - come off in a very thin piecedivide, part, separate - come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
	2.	chip - cut a nick intonickcut - separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope"
	3.	chip - play a chip shotgolf, golf game - a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holesshoot - throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
	4.	chip - form by chipping; "They chipped their names in the stone"shape, mould, mold, form, forge, work - make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
	5.	chip - break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"knap, break off, cut offcut - separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope"chip at, carve - engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one's name into the bark"

chip

noun1. fragment, scrap, shaving, flake, paring, wafer, sliver, shard His eyes gleamed like chips of blue glass.2. scratch, nick, flaw, notch, dent The washbasin had a small chip in it.3. counter, disc, token He gambled all his chips on one number.4. nick, damage, gash The blow chipped the woman's tooth. Steel baths are light, but they chip easily.5. chisel, whittle a sculptor chipping at a block of marblechip in (Informal)1. contribute, pay, donate, subscribe, go Dutch (informal) We'll all chip in for the petrol and food.2. interpose, put in, interrupt, interject, butt in, put your oar in He chipped in, 'That's right,' before she could answer.

Translations

芯片作赌注用的筹码油煎土豆片碎片碎裂

chip

(tʃip) – past tense past participle chipped – verb to knock or strike small pieces off. This glass (was) chipped when I knocked it over.碎裂 noun1. a place from which a small piece is broken. There's a chip in the edge of this saucer.缺口2. (American french fries) (usually in plural) a cut piece of potato (fried). steak and chips.油煎土豆片3. a counter representing a certain value, used in gambling. （作赌注用的）筹码 4. a very small printed circuit, as used in computers, TV sets etc. 芯片chip in1. to interrupt. He chipped in with a remark.插嘴2. to give (money). He chipped in with a dollar for the gift.捐助

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chip

1. (in some games) a counter used to represent money 2. Electronics a tiny wafer of semiconductor material, such as silicon, processed to form a type of integrated circuit or component such as a transistor 3. a thin strip of wood or straw used for making woven hats, baskets, etc.

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[chip] (computer science) chad (electronics) The shaped and processed semiconductor die that is mounted on a substrate to form a transistor, diode, or other semiconductor device. An integrated microcircuit performing a significant number of functions and constituting a subsystem. Also known as microchip. (graphic arts) A section of microfilm smaller in size than a microfiche. (metallurgy) A section of metal that is removed as a workpiece is being machined.

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A broken fragment of marble or other mineral aggregate, screened to a specified size.

CHIP

(language)

1. An early system on the IBM 1130.

[Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959].

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(2)integrated circuit

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(1) A bit in a spreading signal. See chip rate.

(2) (C.H.I.P.) World's first $9 computer. See C.H.I.P..

(3) (CHIP) (Children's Health Insurance Program) See healthcare IT.

(4) A set of microminiaturized, electronic circuits fabricated on a single piece of semiconducting material. The driving force in this industry and officially an "integrated circuit" (IC), unpackaged ICs look like tiny "chips of aluminum." While most chips contain only digital circuits, some are analog only, and some are mixed (see mixed mode). Digital chips are designed for use as processors, RAM and controllers in countless consumer and industrial products. Billions are made every year.

Raw chips are approximately 1/30" thick and from 1/16" square to the footprint of a postage stamp. Small chips hold thousands of transistors; large ones can contain billions. It is actually only the top one thousandth of an inch of a chip's surface that holds the active circuits. The rest is substrate. Although chips may be formed from other materials, silicon is the primary element (see silicon). To learn how the chip is made, see chip manufacturing.

Drs. Bardeen, Shockley and Brattain

This photo of the three inventors was taken in 1947. (Image courtesy of The Computer History Museum, www.computerhistory.org)

Types of Chips by Function

General-Purpose Logic (CPU)
A logic chip processes data, and the central processing unit (CPU) is the primary logic chip in every computer or computer-based device. The CPU follows instructions in software, and because software is easily changed, the CPU is the most flexible logic chip. The CPU is also called a "microprocessor" because it is a miniaturized component. See CPU and microprocessor.

Special-Purpose Logic
A special-purpose "application specific IC" (ASIC), performs a fixed set of steps that cannot be changed. ASICs are smaller and faster than microprocessors and less expensive but only when manufactured in large volume. See ASIC.

Partially Fabricated Logic
All logic chips start out in a semiconductor fabrication facility. However, there are logic chips that are only partially finished at the plant and programmed to completion by the customer, who is the circuit designer. See PLD.

Flash Memory and RAM
Flash memory chips store data permanently and are used for storage and firmware. RAM chips store data temporarily and are the computer's main memory. RAM is either dynamic (fast) or static (faster), but both are volatile and lose their content without power (see dynamic RAM and static RAM). See RAM, firmware, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory, early storage and early memory.

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Executing billions and trillions of calculations per second, the GPU converts the digital images in the computer into pixels for the screen. High-end GPUs are required for gaming PCs in order to render fast video sequences in a realistic manner. See GPU.

Microcontroller (MCU)
An MCU is a single chip that contains the CPU, flash storage, RAM, input/output control and a clock (pulse generator). Billions are used every year in myriad products. See microcontroller.

System-on-Chip (SoC)
An SoC is an MCU and more. For example, in a smartphone, the SoC includes all the MCU components along with a GPU, an image processing section, radios for cellular, Wi-Fi, etc. and more. See SoC.

Analog/Digital and Signal Processing
"A/D converters" and "D/A converters" convert real signals (audio, video, voltage, etc.) to the digital world. A related chip is a "digital signal processor" (DSP), which performs fast instruction sequences commonly used in such applications. See A/D converter, mixed mode and DSP.

How the Chip Came About

REVOLUTION
In 1947, the semiconductor industry was born at AT&T's Bell Labs with the invention of the transistor by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley. The transistor, fabricated from solid materials that could change their electrical conductivity, would eventually replace the bulky, hot, glass vacuum tubes used as electronic amplifiers in radio and TV and as on/off switches in computers. By the late 1950s, the giant first-generation computers gave way to smaller, faster and more reliable transistorized machines. See transistor.

Drs. Bardeen, Shockley and Brattain

This photo of the three inventors was taken in 1947. (Image courtesy of The Computer History Museum, www.computerhistory.org)

EVOLUTION
The original transistors were discrete components; each one was soldered onto a circuit board to connect to other individual transistors, resistors and diodes. Since hundreds of transistors were made on one round silicon wafer and cut apart only to be reconnected again, the idea of building them in the required pattern to begin with was obvious. In the late 1950s, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments (TI) figured out how to make capacitors and resistors from the same semiconductor material. Subsequently, Kilby, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, created the integrated circuit, a set of interconnected components on a single chip.

Since then, the number of transistors that have been put onto a single chip has increased exponentially, from a handful in the early 1960s to millions by the late 1980s. Today, billions of transistors take up less space than the first transistor. See integrated circuit.

From Tube to Transistors in a Chip

Today, several trillion transistors would fit inside the first computer tube. The byproduct of miniaturization is speed. The smaller the transistor, the faster it switches. See active area.

LOGIC AND MEMORY
In first- and second-generation computers, internal main memory was made of such materials as tubes filled with liquid mercury, magnetic drums and magnetic cores. As integrated circuits began to flourish in the 1960s, design breakthroughs allowed memories to also be made of semiconductor materials. Thus, logic circuits, the "brains" of the computer, and memory circuits, its internal workspace, were moving along the same miniaturization path.

By the end of the 1970s, it was possible to put a processor, working memory (RAM), permanent memory (ROM), a control unit for handling input and output and a timing clock on the same chip.

Within 25 years, the transistor on a chip grew into the computer on a chip. When the awesome UNIVAC I was introduced in 1951, one could literally open a door and walk inside. Who would have believed the equivalent electronics would some day be built into a wristwatch?

To learn how the chip is made, see chip manufacturing. To understand how circuits process data, see Boolean logic.

Transistors to Gates to Circuits

Acting like an on/off switch, the transistor is the main component in a digital circuit. Patterns of transistors make up gates, and patterns of gates make up circuits.

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noun a small fragment of something broken off from the whole

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noun a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

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noun a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something

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noun a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling

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noun electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit

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noun (golf) a low running approach shot

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noun the act of chipping something

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verb break off (a piece from a whole)

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verb cut a nick into

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