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Definition of chip in English: chipnounPlural chips tʃɪptʃɪp 1A small piece of something removed in the course of chopping, cutting, or breaking a hard material such as wood or stone. mulch the shrubs with cedar chips Example sentencesExamples - To make wood-chip mulch, tow a chipper to the brush pile you left in the woods and blow the chips right into the trailer.
- Weeds often cause problems so use an ornamental ground cover or spread pebbles or stone chips.
- Sympathising with the labourers in quarry fields, they say, women workers engaged in the work are unmindful of tiny stone chips embedded in their skins.
- I felt myself shiver and held onto myself in the dark as if I were a mere chip of wood or paper caught in a riptide.
- Alice's zombie boyfriend is pounding the bathroom door, sending little chips of paint and wood cascading to the tiled floor.
- He looked over at her, her eyes like hard chips of granite, sparkling with the light from the fire but remaining hard.
- She sent me out for chips and wood to start the fire.
- The landowner gets quick cash, the company gets wood for chips, and workers at local sawmills get laid off.
- He lifted it and hacked at the door again, and again, and small chips of wood started to fly off.
- I'm a sucker for hickory chips but anything from mesquite chips to apple wood can add a distinctive flavour to your favourite dish.
- The nuts are then crushed with lime and catechu, a scarlet and astringent extract made by boiling chips of wood from the areca palm.
- The entire angel burst into flames, and stone chips began to flake away as Frost scrambled back for cover, gripping the small familiar in two hands.
- Plane with the grain of the wood whenever possible, to avoid catching and lifting chips of wood.
- Nests are lined with bark chips or wood shavings or are a shallow cup made of roots, leaves and other plant fibers.
- The blast had knocked two of them down to the ground, along with chips of wood and brush being scattered everywhere.
- A Volkswagen Beetle left the road around 2.25 pm, thought to have skidded on newly laid stone chips.
- Scraps of cloth and chips of wood lay strewn across the room.
- Jabbing at the wood, they remove chips three to six inches tong.
- He was a mountaintop-tree expert with a truck and a crew and machines that chopped up trees into chips.
- Burlap bags brimmed with fragrant leaves and chips of various woods.
Synonyms fragment, piece, bit sliver, splinter, spell, spillikin, shaving, paring scrap, snippet, flake shard Scottish skelf technical gallet, spall - 1.1 A hole or mark on a hard object or surface where a small piece has broken off.
keep an eye out for any scratches or chips on the bodywork that might need treating Example sentencesExamples - She also doesn't mind imperfection, the odd chip or scratch.
- Remove dints and scratches and chips from cars; detail your car inside and out and respray the car, for $1000.
- I noticed Rob had a pretty good set of china, except that it showed its age with minor chips and scratches in the decal.
- If you're not prepared to rigorously keep up that pristine appearance, then the ensuing scuff marks, chips and cracks are sadly all too obvious.
- There were no obvious tool marks, chips or defects, and the finish was perfectly consistent down to the sudden transition at the base of every fold.
- It's a good way to discover scratches, chips and dents early.
- Any cracks, chips, holes, dips or spalls should be repaired in order to achieve a flat surface.
- Within two months after completion, the undermounted sink developed scratches, chips and discoloration.
- A chip or nick on the top of the jar may not allow the jar to seal, and scratches may cause the jar to break during heat processing.
- Moreover, the chips and scars get more numerous as you approach the corner of the street - which is where the bomb must surely have landed.
- Repairing chips and scratches on older pieces may present a color match problem.
- Although they are smooth, there are some with chips and faults and mixtures of two different types of rock.
- Those pieces with the minutest chip or flaw were smashed.
Synonyms nick, crack, snick, scratch flaw, fault - 1.2British mass noun Wood or woody fibre split into thin strips and used for weaving hats or baskets.
Example sentencesExamples - I also found a nice handmade chip basket in different colored wood.
2British A long rectangular piece of deep-fried potato. North American term French fry serve with potatoes, chips, rice, or pasta Example sentencesExamples - I ate potatoes, chips and pasta to restore all the energy in my body so I was more explosive.
- If people are not eating enough fruit and veg then potatoes, including chips, are important.
- Vegetables and potatoes or chips are included in the price.
- The other options on the two-for-a-fiver menu are haddock with chips and peas and Quorn chicken curry with rice.
- There were a range of steaks to choose from, for example, and roast chicken, pork and lamb lunches, as well as hotpots and pies, all served with chips, potatoes or mash and vegetables.
- I had the remainder of my kid's supper: old bits of fish finger, chips, and, later, half a panettone with tea.
- The chips were from good potatoes, crisp on the outside.
- The chicken was tender and nicely cooked and the creamy mash made a welcome change from new potatoes or chips.
- Usually I don't eat potato but fish without chips by the sea would be silly and my son eats most of them.
- All were served with a choice of chips or baked potato with a choice of butter or sour cream, and salad or vegetables which were cauliflower in cheese sauce or hubbard squash or salad.
- I now eat lots of fish, but not in batter, and of course I no longer eat things like potatoes, so chips are out.
- Serve the fish and paprika chips at once with tartare sauce.
- The village of Comrie boasts the last chip shop in the country to use animal fat to deep fry its chips.
- Low-fat oven chips are both less hassle to cook and significantly lower in calories than conventional, deep-fried chips.
- Floating on the top is a pear crisp, so sweet and delectable you might wonder why anyone ever bothered making chips from potatoes.
- Potato is a vegetable (well, just) and hot chips are made of potato.
- A notice indicated that at lunchtime and in the evening you could indulge in steak and kidney pudding, chicken and leek pudding or spring rolls with chips or jacket potatoes.
- Stir again then serve with potatoes, chips, rice or pasta.
- They ate cream of leek and potato soup, followed by fish, chips and mushy peas.
- Somebody a few cells down is smashing and trashing in a rage, furious that he has been given the grey sloppy Prison Regulation mashed potato rather than chips.
Synonyms (chips), chipped potatoes, potato chips, game chips British French fried potatoes North American French fries - 2.1 A small chunk of sweet food (typically chocolate) added to desserts, biscuits, or snacks.
- 2.2North American A thin slice of food (typically potato) made crisp by being fried, baked, or dried and eaten as a snack.
tortilla chips dipped in salsa
3A tiny wafer of semiconducting material used to make an integrated circuit; a microchip. Example sentencesExamples - You know, if I got a slightly larger memory chip, I could store it all on my phone…
- Current integrated circuits, or computer chips, contain about 100 million transistors each.
- Over the next 18 months every plastic card will be replaced by one that contains a new, smarter computer chip which will store details of your secret PIN.
- The overclocking world was shaken when Winbond announced that it would discontinue its entire line of RAM chips.
- About every 18 months, the number of transistors in computer chips doubles.
- That's when he inherited the CEO post and set out to remake the company around a new flagship product, the digital signal processor chip.
- The new pricing brought the cost of Intel's notebook chips closer in line with its desktop products.
- You find semiconductors at the heart of microprocessor chips as well as transistors.
- Graphics chips render images by breaking them into small pieces called polygons.
- This speed is more than 100 times faster than that of the best security chip available at the beginning of last year, a phenomenal increase.
- Still, the test scores with both chips were repeatable, and the performance gain measured was that significant.
- Lower resistance means that transistors switch states faster and that makes chips compute quicker.
- On some computers, the BIOS chip is not removable, and so it could only be replaced by swapping the entire motherboard.
- An implantable, GPS-enabled chip is now becoming available.
- The electron beam was magnetically aimed so as to encode the stream of data to be written, forming it into a sequence of dark and light spots on the chip.
- The paper describes the proper structure for a new kind of metal electrode to accompany novel insulating materials in transistors on computer chips.
- Computer chips are integrated circuits called microprocessors built up from transistors and other components.
- He bends down, picking up some type of computer chip.
- An implanted computer chip will read the patient's own heart activity, sensing when the natural muscle is tiring, then kick-in to help the heart.
- To shrink the size of transistors on computer chips, semiconductor manufacturers are turning to shorter wavelength techniques.
4A counter used in certain gambling games to represent money. Example sentencesExamples - I thought maybe he'd taken a sudden interest in sewing but no - he intends to use them as gambling chips for poker games over at the other hotel.
- They found it contained two bibles, a chess set, a backgammon game, a deck of cards, poker chips and several paper back pulp fiction novels.
- The score can be recorded on paper or you can settle up in money or chips after each hand.
- It was defined in terms of how much gold you could turn it in for, like redeeming chips for money at a casino.
- Based on an oval track car race, this fairly simple game uses cards as a track and poker chips as race cars.
- One night after the game I cashed in more in poker chips than I started with.
- Scoring is best done with chips like many Chinese games.
- Money can be laundered through casinos by gamblers who buy chips, then cash them and provide a receipt to legitimise the proceeds.
- The players also need a supply of money or chips for betting.
- I did not look upon the chips as money; to me they were what they were - just pieces of plastic.
- Palace Poker can be played without money or chips also.
- That was a mercenary term for a poker game with fake chips, one just played for relaxation.
- Life is a gamble, and I like playing ‘All-In’ (a poker term for gambling all your chips on one hand).
- A drug dealer could convert his wads of notes into chips, put half on black and half on red then convert the chips back into clean money.
- Coins or small poker chips will serve as markers, and you can now buy little colored plastic train engines which look like the token from a Monopoly set.
- If he likes to play the old-fashioned way, T. Anthony's game set holds cards, dice, poker chips, checkers, and chess.
- Poker chips are recommended, with the white chips representing 5 units, the reds 20, and the blues 1000.
- Instead of copy watches and copy CDs, I will sell copy casino chips and copy poker machine coins.
- Like poker chips, lasers may someday be molded out of plastic by the millions.
- A poker player with lots of chips can force the game.
Synonyms counter, token, disc, jetton North American check 5(in soccer, golf, and other sports) a short lofted kick or shot. he made no mistake with a chip and a par putt from four feet to seal victory Example sentencesExamples - So, while Woods is easily the best in the world from a tough situation - he's the most creative and has the most shots - he struggles to hit straightforward chips stiff to the hole.
- We repeatedly are told to stop ‘quitting’ or decelerating at impact on our chips and putts.
- If you do bail out right and short, you'll have an easy chip.
- Left with her second shot, her little chip barely reached the green.
- But Tickle levelled the scores with a chip and chase to the line before Farrell's kick.
- One touch took Giggs round the goalkeeper and a chip across the vacated goalmouth presented Ronaldo with the simplest of finishes.
- Among other things, you should also hit some chips and definitely some bunker shots.
- In the drill shown here, I'm trying to hit chips short, long, left and right - but not to the pin itself.
- I've holed my share of chips and had quite a few near-misses.
- He hit a poor tee shot, required two chips to find the green and then two-putted from 10 feet.
- If a player gets too aggressive on a downhill putt on one of those greens, his next shot could be a chip or a pitch from the fairway.
- His chip kick was partially charged down, but the bounce took it in front of the posts only for desperate Waterloo cover to clear the danger.
- Similarly, York did not counter the fast-closing Park defence with the short chip kick.
- I finally pulled it way left of the green, hit a bad chip and sank a 30-footer.
- The ball's solid rubber core and extremely thin but strong urethane elastomer cover appear to add distance to tee shots and control to chips and putts.
- All week I just warmed up by hitting a few chips and putts.
- Angling my shoulders so they are parallel to the slope lets me hit uphill chips just like any other chip shot.
- The most famous kick that Cantona ever delivered wasn't a sublime chip or a match-winning penalty, but a two-footed karate kick.
- A dropped shot loomed at the long 16th after another bad drive, but from just over the back of the green Clarke holed out for par, using one of his woods for the chip.
- More often than not you'll leave the next shot short with your chip or putt, and you'll probably be long with the next.
verbchipped, chips, chipping tʃɪptʃɪp [with object]1Cut or break (a small piece) from a hard material. we had to chip ice off the upper deck Example sentencesExamples - He tried again with a harder swing and chipped off a small piece!
- A second test involves chipping small sections of concrete from the floor in several areas.
- A small hand shovel was leaning against the dirt wall in front of him and Eron picked it up and began chipping away portions of the wall.
- But day by day during those months, little Jamie chipped pieces of the sturdy shell that Serrah had made around herself.
- As he fell face-first his mouth smashed against the hard corner of the table, chipping a front tooth.
- The old neighborhood was falling apart, the paint was chipping off of the aging buildings and graffiti covered dumpsters, trash cans, benches, everything.
- Huge damage has been done to the plaza and large pieces are being chipped out of the seats there.
- Luckily they showed that I hadn't cracked it or chipped it.
- But the projectile went very deep, so it may have chipped the bone a bit.
- Her foot scuffed the pavement and chipped the side of a shallow pothole.
- That movement saved him, as another silenced gunshot rang out, chipping the hard concrete floor above him.
- The unusual shape of the stone is in part the result of early visitors chipping pieces off to use as talismans or for curative purposes.
- Modern porcelain enamel can be chipped but only with a very hard blow that bends the base metal.
- It fell on one's hair and froze there, creating a helmet of ice that had to be literally chipped away.
- It was so cold in there sometimes that we could chip icicles off the inside of the window.
- Just ask my dad and he'll willingly tell you how he had to chip an inch of ice off the windscreen before he could drive my mum to hospital.
- That afternoon I'd chipped my own pieces off the Wall.
- Haha… did I say something about the tall, lanky boy who chipped half his teeth roller blading that I seem to like too much?
- Her head fell upon a wooden end table, chipping parts of it.
- The surface of the rock was black from oxidation, and you could not always see the pink interior until you had chipped the piece with a rock hammer.
Synonyms nick, crack, snick, scratch damage - 1.1no object (of a material or object) break at the edge or on the surface.
the paint had chipped off the gate Example sentencesExamples - Woks were rusty, cleaning equipment dirty, ceiling paint chipping and the food elevator was covered in blood and dried food.
- They were brown and the polish was chipping slowly.
- She saw a low ceiling with its paint chipped off - just like the ceiling of her house.
- It was small, green paint chipping off everywhere.
- The third response is that large crystals have a higher probability of being chipped or broken while being collected.
- Everywhere paint was chipping, wood was cracking, piles of putrid garbage were collecting, and laundry lines were being strung anywhere it was possible to do so.
- It is strong but can be chipped or broken easily, especially cup handles.
- There were gouges in the stock and the paint had chipped off the selector switch.
- Tables were overturned, the wood chipped off in jagged points with their legs snapped off and gnawed on.
- Bollards look unsightly with their paints all chipped off.
- In its first season, the league used red pucks, but the paint chipped off quickly.
- It's carved, with paint chipping off and other paint coming through.
- The lock had the appearance of a half - rusted mailbox; the wall it belonged to also owned a door with most of the paint chipped off.
- I don't like it much and the polish is chipping so I think I'm going to go for a rust color.
Synonyms break (off), crack, fragment, crumble - 1.2 Cut pieces off (a hard material) to shape it or break it up.
craftsmen chipped the blocks of flint to the required shape no object she chipped away at the ground outside the door Example sentencesExamples - He soon came upon a small clearing where he found some saplings; he broke one off and found some rocks which he used to chip another rock into a point.
- He said for a night and a day the ice was chipped away revealing 54 bags of hashish ranging in weight from 50 to 100 pounds.
- There was something about the beauty and simplicity of it that could chip the ice around a person's cold heart.
- But we can always chip ice out of the north pole cap, that's a billion cubic kilometres of water ice just sitting there waiting to be dealt with.
- Once the trees have been chipped, the material is collected to be used at the Wigan Road centre for landscaping.
- In the U.S. eradication program, infested trees are also chipped into tiny pieces after they are taken down.
- He reached for a piece and just a hair too close to his fingers for comfort a knife chipped wood.
- I decide to work on the first option - chipping the rock away.
- Once cooled, the outer clay is chipped away and the carbonized core reamed out, with the casting filed and chased.
- Now, however, there's no shortage of wood chipping machines.
- Now it's lying on the beach and he's chipped away the mud and shells to reveal an iron canon.
- Timber will be chipped, and papers and cardboards will be baled.
- The ‘bio-mass’ or wood is then chipped, dried and stored in the same way as grain.
- Into this add 125g crushed amaretti biscuits with 125g chipped hazelnuts.
- As he chipped the stone away, Michael realized it was a cylindrical object, tapering gradually to a point at each end, made entirely of the odd, silvery metal.
- This would be repeated until the rock was chipped down to the approximate size and shape of one of the few dozen letters in the flatumm alphabet.
- It took three or four weekends to chip enough stone for one weekend's block laying.
- He was chipping away pieces of a large rock, slowly hollowing it out.
- He turns a chunk of wood over in his hands, mulling how he could cut it, sand it, chip it, glue it into something.
- For a lot of them, we had to chip the ice away from their feet to get them off the belt until we could get those birds run.
2usually as adjective chippedBritish Cut (a potato) into chips. Example sentencesExamples - Potatoes, whether served mashed, boiled or chipped, flowery or waxy, are integral parts of Irish diet and culture.
- Most of these are served with potatoes, either mashed, chipped or sautéed.
- The side dishes of optional vegetables and chipped and roast potatoes filled the table up nicely.
- When served with Irish chipped potatoes and a perky burst of baby organic spinach, there are few finer Irish meals.
- Soak raw chipped potatoes in a pint of hot stock, drain them and oven roast for scrumptious, tasty chips.
- When this happens, put first chipped potato in carefully so it doesn't splash.
- Soft flavoursome potato dominated the centre of these chipped potatoes, which were marginally fatter than standard French Fries.
- Mashed, boiled, baked, chipped or roasted whichever way you like, it will be there at a Potato Day taking place at the Friends Meeting House in Meeting House Lane next month.
3(in soccer, golf, and other sports) kick or strike (a ball or shot) to produce a short lofted shot or pass. he chipped a superb shot over the keeper Example sentencesExamples - Faced with a stymie in the afternoon round, Runyan casually chipped his ball over Snead's and into the cup for another winner.
- At the far end, Kanu shimmies outside the box, makes room for a shot and tries to chip the ball into the top left-hand corner.
- Try to chip the ball so it lands on the towel and rolls to the hole.
- Many 90s-shooters try to chip the ball from a snarled lie just off the green.
- He dummies Beye and has so much time and space to play with, it's inevitable he chips the ball lamely into the grateful hands of Runje.
- The president was in the small putting green outside the Oval Office chipping golf balls and whining - he did this a lot - to his aides.
- One thing every golfer can appreciate is a player who can chip the ball well.
- He chipped his third shot through the green and watched as his fourth dribbled back to his feet before avoiding a double bogey by chipping in from 35 feet.
- Larsson chips the ball across the face of the Anderlecht goal.
- But they played as if it was a fine day - chipping the ball around, setting things up.
- At one point in the game, Franco Baresi chipped the ball out to the left where Paolo Maldini was waiting on the touchline.
- Beckham adroitly chips a dangerous ball into the box - who does he think he is, Zidane?
- Thomas Hunt was in the right place at the right time and chipped a right-footed shot from the edge of the penalty area into an empty net.
- Though Sullivan, timing his run from the wing to perfection, appeared to have chipped the ball over Shelley, a superb late tackle thwarted him.
- He chips the ball over Given and it bounces clear of both a backtracking Finnan and the empty net.
- His shot arrived at the feet of Kerins, who skilfully chipped the ball over the stranded goalkeeper and into the net.
- O'Connor chipped the ball into the penalty area where Martin Reilly headed home from six yards.
- Players chip the ball around rather than kicking long to packs so there are fewer marking contests involving more than two players.
- I often see amateurs try to chip the ball and just chunk it, leaving it in the rough.
- He plays half the second hole one-handed, chipping the ball along the fairway with his right hand while cradling the phone to his ear with his left.
Phrases informal Someone who resembles their parent in character or appearance. she smiled at Jimmy, a chip off the old block with his grey eyes and a bit of his dad's twinkle Example sentencesExamples - I didn't know she had it in her… but perhaps she's more of a chip off the old block than I gave her credit for.
- Martin is literally a chip off the old block and carries on the family tradition not just by chops but also by manufacturing top quality racing axes.
- Yes, perhaps Ferry is a chip off the old block after all.
- Daniel '71, Ph.D. '78 (early Islamic history), is what old-timers would call a chip off the old block.
- He claims his inheritance, transforms his arid lands into a lush and prosperous farm through an irrigation scheme, and is generally seen as a chip off the old block.
- Glen, of Lowther Crescent, Leyland, said it all happened so quickly, but is thrilled for Sam who is clearly a chip off the old block.
- Renowned as a playboy who has dated a string of Indonesian starlets, Tommy is, as the saying goes, a chip off the old block.
- Somebody looked at me, then at my father and decided, ‘He's a chip off the old block.’
- And he's a brick, a chip off the old block, a good ‘un.
- She was also developing an expensive, hedonistic lifestyle, proving she was a chip off the old block, and she graduated into a notorious celebrity.
- King Abdullah is a chip off the old block, really.
- If young Les proves to be a chip off the old block, then Workers are, indeed, in good hands.
- So, like a chip off the old block, I felt compelled to keep telling the story until someone graced me with a response.
- Is his son a chip off the old block in interest in international affairs?
- But the fly-half is a chip off the old block when it comes to meticulous planning and almost disturbing dedication to duty.
- He might even turn out to be a chip off the old block.
- Scott had taken Sean's promotion at the law firm, and Mr. Sinclair had no doubt in his mind that Brandon was a chip off the old block.
- Son has worked with father since his teens and, by all accounts, is definitely a chip off the old block for, like his dad, Chris is ‘a practical guy’.
- He certainly is a chip off the old block - he not only bears a striking resemblance to his father but also moves very much like him.
- And five years after that reunion, there is no doubt now that Ford is very much a chip off the old block.
informal An ingrained feeling of resentment deriving from a sense of inferiority and sometimes marked by aggressive behaviour. I had a dirty great chip on my shoulder—I thought everybody was against me Example sentencesExamples - If you've got a chip on your shoulder about men and you take that with you to your next relationship, then he's dead in the water before he ever starts.
- I think you have a chip on your shoulder about private education.
- I suppose you could grow up with a chip on your shoulder.
- ‘You can't go around with a chip on your shoulder, blaming the world for your problems,’ he says of the rioters.
- To have a chip on your shoulder against authority is immature.
- ‘Football is such a violent game, a player really needs to have a chip on their shoulder to succeed,’ he says.
- Savage, like many people who are motivated by hatred, has a chip on his shoulder as a failed academic rejected by liberal Berkeley.
- But if you complain too much you have got a chip on your shoulder.
- Le petit merde, also known as Douglas Alexander, has insisted he's going to support England and that anybody who doesn't has got a chip on their shoulder.
- The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside books about nuns and birdwatchers and cats who solve crimes.
- Maybe I have a chip on my shoulder about John's skill as a wordsmith.
- Still, he found himself plunged right into the middle of the notoriously divided jazz world, where every camp views others with suspicion, and everyone seems to have a chip on their shoulder.
- This family obviously has a chip on their shoulder and another thought should not be wasted on this.
- I had a chip on my shoulder about the chips on other people's shoulders, and as so often with shoulder chips, the chips I perceived in others were often imagined or exaggerated.
- ‘I suppose I did have a little bit of a chip on my shoulder,’ he said.
- ‘I tried to take lads who had a bit of a chip on their shoulder,’ he said.
- Now, if you're a child of parents being snubbed, I think it's perfectly natural to develop a chip on your shoulder.
- But having to break into America certainly is annoying, and it is sort of something I've got a chip on my shoulder about.
- I have a chip on my shoulder because I think it is uncalled for that I get dog's abuse in every game, year after year.
- I WOULD be a liar if I said I didn't have a chip on my shoulder about Italian restaurants.
Synonyms bitterness, indignation, irritation, pique, displeasure, dissatisfaction, disgruntlement, discontentment, discontent, resentfulness, bad feelings, hard feelings, ill feelings, acrimony, rancour, animosity, hostility, jaundice, antipathy, antagonism, enmity, hatred, hate
informal Be dead or defeated. Granny has had her chips—she's dead Example sentencesExamples - A South African gambling company launched a cellphone advertising campaign showing the Last Supper and the slogan ‘Jesus has had his chips.’
- We were up against it - we expected an invasion at any time and a lot of people were convinced we had had our chips.
- After the second set, it looked as though Agassi had had his chips.
- Scotland's junk food-loving schoolchildren have had their chips.
- Now, when it comes to the crunch, my friend has had his chips.
- None of the execs had time to meet me today so I've been granted a look around the factory and then I'll have had my chips.
informal When a very serious situation arises. when the chips are down they chicken out Example sentencesExamples - What has happened to and because of the Tampa, the arrogant misbehaving in the face of the rule of law, is something that, when the chips are down, could happen to every one of us here.
- Joe's Zimbabwe post talked about a number of things, but I want to draw on my experience and focus on one thing: what makes people act when the chips are down?
- But in actual fact when the chips are down and the global operations centre cannot diagnose what's wrong with a particular service, it falls back on people in the field.
- But the fact is that, when the chips are down, most people haven't the courage or have too much to lose to confront the boss - whatever the situation.
- In crunch time, to use another sports analogy, when the chips are down, those of us who cover sports do tend to let our fandom show, and this is despite the jaded nature of the average sports reporter.
- CAN A person trust others for support when the chips are down?
- But when the chips are down (despite some pretty unlikely situations), their determination shines through.
- He also needs to show that, notwithstanding his mostly-superficial second term problems, he can get what he wants from the Senate when the chips are down.
- It is like a family, and when the chips are down, everybody is there and just sort of mucks in,’ she says.
- If, however, you do not see eye-to-eye with your investors then their rights - particularly when the chips are down - can become a restriction on the development of your business.
- But the crisis has shown us how amazing people can be when the chips are down.
- But when the chips are down, Douglas has no doubt that things will be different, citing the controlled aggression displayed last year as evidence.
- And that in itself is another cause for satisfaction, another sign of a ‘team’ unified in its aim; when the chips are down and things aren't going their way they roll up their sleeves and dig in.
- It's a great place to play when the chips are down.
- The team that used to put away inferior teams with such professional élan in the past is starting too look a little lacklustre when the chips are down.
- I think it is the job of supporters to encourage as much as possible, even when the chips are down, and if expectations have not been met by the final whistle then fans should vent their frustration.
- This is a dreamy, imaginative and sensitive sign, but underneath is a steely strength that can be relied upon when the chips are down; hence the rapid recovery when the band hit trouble.
- I learnt a lot about people and dignity when the chips are down and this started my interest in helping people plan their careers and achieve a measure of survivability.
- A truly mean player won't hesitate to play dirty when the chips are down.
- ‘I think it's really important when the chips are down to support your home team,’ she said.
Phrasal Verbs Gradually and relentlessly make something smaller or weaker. rivals may chip away at one's profits by undercutting prices Example sentencesExamples - It will take some chipping away at, one dimension at a time.
- The smaller beasties can be easily killed off with any assortment of weaponry but the larger enemies must first be chipped away at with artillery or grenades, and doused with fire in order to be killed.
- Of course, his persona was one of golden husband and do-gooder WASP, something he's clearly revelling in chipping away at here.
- A similar pathway system is envisioned in the East Village, but some argue the project's plans have already chipped away at what makes Eau Claire so successful.
- Raquel still stood stiffly, but the passion in his voice was gradually chipping away at her suspicions.
- The Justice Department has already chipped away at more than 20 years of privacy standards by arresting AIDS and cancer patients who use medical marijuana.
- It's hundreds of illnesses that you have to go and chip away at.
- Now, many fear we are chipping away at what it means to be an American, devaluing the citizenship those millions worked so hard to attain.
- What is also very difficult to identify are the areas where Freedom of Expression is chipped away at by stealth where misguided good intentions or simple greed is the cause.
- ‘I find it very depressing that we have a vision for the town centre and they chip away at it and erode the vision,’ said Coun Allen.
- Those are the people they're chipping away at now.
- Academic challenges chipped away at what was left of Parr's self-confidence.
- The vision that you have at the beginning is just constantly chipped away at, and you haven't even filmed anything.
- You also have people chipping away at that, continually.
- But over the match, Tranfield gradually chipped away at Nimmo's confidence and forced her to play long rallies.
- But loyalty is something that takes a lot of time to chip away at and it also takes a lot of time to replace.
- Ron, is this something the president can chip away at and make progress on between now and November?
- They like to wrap themselves in the American flag and yet they're totally chipping away at what it stands for.
- It would only serve to enrage Dvorak even more as it's exactly these new ‘columnists’ who are chipping away at his crumbling throne.
- A premium brand has been chipped away at by serious price competition and an ever-increasing level of quality on the part of cheaper competitors.
Synonyms wear away, wear down, abrade, scrape away, grind down, crumble, dissolve, weather
chip in (or chip something in) 1Contribute something as one's share of a joint activity, cost, etc. Rollie chipped in with nine saves and five wins the council will chip in a further £30,000 a year Example sentencesExamples - For AAM, Paddy Conlon replied with a hat-trick, but with Bruce Rowan, Ryan Cathro, Gordon Shepherd and Dailly again chipping in after half time, Wanderers made it look comfortable.
- We have thought of a few options like borrowing a barn on a farm and doing it all up and looking at everyone else chipping in.
- Do it now and don't forget to fill out a gift aid declaration so that Uncle Gordon Brown chips in and increases your donation by 28%.
- Although the money from the Government is not a substantial amount, if everyone chips in the total can add up very nicely.
- He scored 18 goals in Greece last season so I expect him to be chipping in when he gets in the swing.
- ‘Too often we win games through an individual performance and to be a complete side capable of winning next year's World Cup we need to get everyone chipping in,’ he said.
- It's good that all our strikers are scoring and, with the other players chipping in too, we're always going to be a goal-scoring threat.
- Enough revenue was chipped in, so to speak, to allow him to open a new restaurant on Second Avenue, where the food wasn't as sublime as its inspiration but was far more affordable.
- And finally, the celebrated tv personality Melvyn Bragg chips in with this.
- Old songwriting hand Tom Morgan chips in, so does Ben Lee with two beauties, and Jellyfish's Jon Brion not only co-produces but co-writes five tracks.
- If he keeps popping up in the box, he could end up being a midfield player who chips in with double figures - maybe not this year, but in future years.
Synonyms contribute, donate, give, make a contribution, make a donation, hand over, pay 2Make an interjectio; interject. with direct speech ‘He's right,’ Gloria chipped in Example sentencesExamples - ‘And the only thing that me and Kenny know is music so we just did that and created this huge bouncing building,’ Woody chips in.
- That thought seems to have occurred to his daughter as well: ‘I wouldn't enjoy playing the game that I love for money,’ she chips in.
- Fellow dancer Dave Brisk chips in, ‘It's also a great opportunity to meet new people and make some new friends.’
- His pal, a farmer's son, chips in, ‘Not as serious now, though, is it?’
- But that didn't stop Gilz chipping in with the now days old argument, ‘If you go to a farm there's milk and cheese.’
- ‘And not when she's got this very tough-looking girlfriend hovering in the background,’ Ryan chips in.
- Geoff chips in: ‘By the eighth day we had almost given up hope and would have settled for just a phone call to let us know she was safe and being well cared for.’
- ‘Well, if we're using a fender amp we should really use a fender cab ’, Andy chips in.
- ‘How you feature in it, and the respect they (the artist) have for you,’ Lotta chips in.
Synonyms interrupt, cut in, chime in, break in, interject, interpose, butt in
Origin Middle English: related to Old English forcippian 'cut off'. The word chip was probably formed from an Old English word, forchippian, ‘to cut off’. A person who is thought to resemble one of their parents in character or behaviour can be described as a chip off the old block. The phrase was originally found in the forms chip of the same block and chip of the old block, so that the person appeared made from the same material. To have a chip on your shoulder is to be aggressively sensitive about something, usually some long-standing grievance or cause of resentment. The expression is first recorded in American English. An explanation can be found in an early example from the Long Island Telegraph of 20 May 1830: ‘When two churlish boys were determined to fight, a chip [of wood] would be placed on the shoulder of one, and the other demanded to knock it off at his peril.’Another meaning of chip is ‘a counter used in gambling games, representing money’, and such gambling chips, especially as used in the game of poker, feature in a number of common phrases. If someone has had their chips, they are beaten or out of contention. The idea is of having run out of gambling counters or chips with which to place a stake. Similarly, when the chips are down you find yourself in a very serious and difficult situation. To cash in your chips is to die—you are no longer ‘in the game’. Deep-fried slices of potato have been known as chips since the time of Dickens. You might think of the phrase cheap as chips as being a recent invention, but it, too, goes back to at least the 1850s, when it was used in an advert in The Times.
Rhymes blip, clip, dip, drip, equip, flip, grip, gyp, hip, kip, lip, nip, outstrip, pip, quip, rip, scrip, ship, sip, skip, slip, snip, strip, tip, toodle-pip, trip, whip, yip, zip Definition of chip in US English: chipnountʃɪpCHip 1A small piece of something removed in the course of chopping, cutting, or breaking a hard material such as wood or stone. mulch the shrubs with cedar chips Example sentencesExamples - She sent me out for chips and wood to start the fire.
- Plane with the grain of the wood whenever possible, to avoid catching and lifting chips of wood.
- He looked over at her, her eyes like hard chips of granite, sparkling with the light from the fire but remaining hard.
- Weeds often cause problems so use an ornamental ground cover or spread pebbles or stone chips.
- To make wood-chip mulch, tow a chipper to the brush pile you left in the woods and blow the chips right into the trailer.
- The nuts are then crushed with lime and catechu, a scarlet and astringent extract made by boiling chips of wood from the areca palm.
- Alice's zombie boyfriend is pounding the bathroom door, sending little chips of paint and wood cascading to the tiled floor.
- I felt myself shiver and held onto myself in the dark as if I were a mere chip of wood or paper caught in a riptide.
- Burlap bags brimmed with fragrant leaves and chips of various woods.
- Scraps of cloth and chips of wood lay strewn across the room.
- Sympathising with the labourers in quarry fields, they say, women workers engaged in the work are unmindful of tiny stone chips embedded in their skins.
- Jabbing at the wood, they remove chips three to six inches tong.
- He lifted it and hacked at the door again, and again, and small chips of wood started to fly off.
- Nests are lined with bark chips or wood shavings or are a shallow cup made of roots, leaves and other plant fibers.
- I'm a sucker for hickory chips but anything from mesquite chips to apple wood can add a distinctive flavour to your favourite dish.
- He was a mountaintop-tree expert with a truck and a crew and machines that chopped up trees into chips.
- The landowner gets quick cash, the company gets wood for chips, and workers at local sawmills get laid off.
- The blast had knocked two of them down to the ground, along with chips of wood and brush being scattered everywhere.
- A Volkswagen Beetle left the road around 2.25 pm, thought to have skidded on newly laid stone chips.
- The entire angel burst into flames, and stone chips began to flake away as Frost scrambled back for cover, gripping the small familiar in two hands.
- 1.1 A hole or mark on a hard object or surface where a small piece has broken off.
Example sentencesExamples - A chip or nick on the top of the jar may not allow the jar to seal, and scratches may cause the jar to break during heat processing.
- If you're not prepared to rigorously keep up that pristine appearance, then the ensuing scuff marks, chips and cracks are sadly all too obvious.
- Repairing chips and scratches on older pieces may present a color match problem.
- Any cracks, chips, holes, dips or spalls should be repaired in order to achieve a flat surface.
- Although they are smooth, there are some with chips and faults and mixtures of two different types of rock.
- She also doesn't mind imperfection, the odd chip or scratch.
- Moreover, the chips and scars get more numerous as you approach the corner of the street - which is where the bomb must surely have landed.
- Those pieces with the minutest chip or flaw were smashed.
- Remove dints and scratches and chips from cars; detail your car inside and out and respray the car, for $1000.
- I noticed Rob had a pretty good set of china, except that it showed its age with minor chips and scratches in the decal.
- Within two months after completion, the undermounted sink developed scratches, chips and discoloration.
- It's a good way to discover scratches, chips and dents early.
- There were no obvious tool marks, chips or defects, and the finish was perfectly consistent down to the sudden transition at the base of every fold.
Synonyms nick, crack, snick, scratch - 1.2British Wood or woody fiber split into thin strips and used for weaving hats or baskets.
Example sentencesExamples - I also found a nice handmade chip basket in different colored wood.
2North American A thin slice of food (typically potato) made crisp by being fried, baked, or dried and eaten as a snack. tortilla chips dipped in salsa Example sentencesExamples - He smiled and returned the kiss before taking another chip and dipping it in the salsa.
- The side dishes were some cheddar cheese flavored chips and a fruit salad.
- Trans fats are in chips, French fries, and baked goods that contain margarine or shortening.
- Which begs the question: Is it time to remove the salt shaker - or is it OK to nosh on salty chips with reckless abandon?
- The dip becomes the object, the chip merely a passive conduit.
- The students brought every kind of chip, dip and snack imaginable to make their last day a memorable feast.
- Spoon a generous tablespoon of the fish mixture on each tortilla chip; top each with a cilantro leaf.
- Today, 33 percent of chips are eaten away from home and the most common partner with chips is a refrigerated chip dip.
- Beer cans were everywhere, along with crumbs of chips, leftover pizzas, and popcorn.
- Shoving the synthetic hairs behind her ears, she scooped up the nacho cheese with a tortilla chip.
- She glanced over at Patrick and Danny, who were both eating chips from the refreshments table and not saying a word to each other.
- I was watching her like a hawk, but she timed her illegal grabs right as I turned to take a chip and dip it into salsa.
- Today for lunch were hoagie sandwiches, chips, and a Rice Krispy treat that looked kinda old.
- Once it slips past the firm-ripe stage, enjoy its creamy goodness in everyone's favorite chip dip: guacamole.
- Ada and Adam continued down the snack aisle, piling food into their cart and dodging other customers as they wheeled back and forth from the chip dip to the pretzels.
- They all looked filling and sold for under $6 with a choice of chips or pretzels.
- Busy people will choose work over snacking if that bag of chips is going to take them away from the project at hand.
- I walked down the long aisle ways of the supermarket looking for my favorite bag of chips… Ruffle's Sour Cream and Onion.
- My fingers had bits of chips and candy attached to them.
- Greg will buy some new chip dip combo pack, take two bites, and toss it.
- This doesn't mean going to the vending machine and munching on chips at 2: 30 in the afternoon.
- I chuckled to myself and dipped another warm chip into the salsa.
- It happens with chips, candy, cereal, frozen foods, pickles, you name it.
- Be on the lookout for smart choices, like a vitamin-rich broccoli spear, or pick up a pita chip and dip it in protein-packed hummus.
- Many foods, including chips, doughnuts, and fritters, are cooked this way.
- So before you chow down on those chips, read the fine print: A single bag may be considered to be more than one serving.
- I spied a lone tortilla chip on the carpet and discreetly crushed it into teeny tiny little pieces beneath my flip flop.
- After a hurried lunch of brown beans doused in tahini with salad and chips, we set off.
- Looking up from her food, a chip still only halfway in her mouth, she blinked.
- The thrasher does the same thing with a tortilla chip, picking it up in its beak and running into the underbrush to polish it off.
- The bowls are filled with chips; the hoagies are en route from the local sandwich joint.
- B. Moe's gives you chips with your burrito, so Chipotle loses points for charging for theirs.
- Emily smiled at Shannon and grabbed some chips out of the brown bag.
- Do not buy anything - candy, chips, doughnuts, Pop-Tarts, cookies or soda from a vending machine.
- Wrapped in a maize tortilla, preferably freshly made, or even on a tortilla chip, it might ever so distantly evoke the taste of Tenochtitlan.
- We needed to make sure the salsa and chip quantities were matched.
- Then I realized he was choking on a piece of tortilla chip and performed the Heimlich Maneuver.
- Gwen scooped up some salsa and shoved the laden chip into her mouth.
- Myra rolled her eyes and grabbed a tortilla chip, dunking it in the salsa.
- Brian got a chicken and cheese sub, Lay's sour cream and onion chips, and a Mug Root Beer.
- 2.1 A small chunk of candy (typically chocolate) added to desserts, cookies, or sweet snacks.
- 2.2British A French fry, especially one that is thickly cut.
serve with potatoes, chips, rice, or pasta Example sentencesExamples - Family came to Elgin from the province of Lucca in the late 19th century, and ran a sweet shop, then a fish and chip shop.
- Ainsley gives chips a refreshing and funky twist with a lemon and garlic chip recipe.
- Are there soft-drink machines, a sweet shop or a chip van outside?
- Among the English classics will be steak and kidney pudding, lamb chump chops, topside of beef, bangers and mash, and fish, chips and peas.
- We had plenty of side orders including potato gratin, boiled potato and homemade chips as well as sugar snap peas and broccoli.
- School heads have blamed the presence of chip vans and fast food shops for leading youngsters away from canteens at lunchtime.
- The special offered a choice of chicken, red meat or fish - the other two meals being lamb shanks or old-fashioned fish & chips.
- I opted for fish, chips and peas, which was £5 although I had a coffee too so the bill came to £6.10.
- Veggie sticks - when stacked into a fast food restaurant chip holder, they look like chips but they are so much healthier!
- There was a small café open several streets away, so feeling hungry as it was now past midday I entered and ordered myself a hamburger and chips from the counter where I sat.
- It was always chops, potatoes and, if you were lucky, steak and chips.
- We had one child who had never seen a tomato before and another who didn't realise that chips come from potatoes.
- It could be that or the little things we do, like ordering fish, chips and peas for every meal.
- And there's a traditional East Midlands fish and chip shop on the front, one among many, that serves the best rock salmon and chips you'll find anywhere.
- Consisting of soup, two pieces of fish, chips, side salad and a soft drink, this is one lunch not to miss.
- We had fish and chip shop food at home and went to bed at midnight.
- He might be a big chef who is on the telly but his favourite meal of all time is fish, chips and mushy peas.
- Young French and German musicians sampled a traditional Bolton delicacy when they tucked into fish, chips and mushy peas.
- To test whether the oil is hot enough, dip a chip into the oil and watch.
- Most of these dishes come with assorted vegetables, potatoes or chips and gravy.
3A tiny wafer of semiconducting material used to make an integrated circuit; a microchip. Example sentencesExamples - Current integrated circuits, or computer chips, contain about 100 million transistors each.
- The overclocking world was shaken when Winbond announced that it would discontinue its entire line of RAM chips.
- Lower resistance means that transistors switch states faster and that makes chips compute quicker.
- You find semiconductors at the heart of microprocessor chips as well as transistors.
- The new pricing brought the cost of Intel's notebook chips closer in line with its desktop products.
- Computer chips are integrated circuits called microprocessors built up from transistors and other components.
- The electron beam was magnetically aimed so as to encode the stream of data to be written, forming it into a sequence of dark and light spots on the chip.
- This speed is more than 100 times faster than that of the best security chip available at the beginning of last year, a phenomenal increase.
- On some computers, the BIOS chip is not removable, and so it could only be replaced by swapping the entire motherboard.
- That's when he inherited the CEO post and set out to remake the company around a new flagship product, the digital signal processor chip.
- About every 18 months, the number of transistors in computer chips doubles.
- Over the next 18 months every plastic card will be replaced by one that contains a new, smarter computer chip which will store details of your secret PIN.
- The paper describes the proper structure for a new kind of metal electrode to accompany novel insulating materials in transistors on computer chips.
- You know, if I got a slightly larger memory chip, I could store it all on my phone…
- Graphics chips render images by breaking them into small pieces called polygons.
- To shrink the size of transistors on computer chips, semiconductor manufacturers are turning to shorter wavelength techniques.
- Still, the test scores with both chips were repeatable, and the performance gain measured was that significant.
- He bends down, picking up some type of computer chip.
- An implanted computer chip will read the patient's own heart activity, sensing when the natural muscle is tiring, then kick-in to help the heart.
- An implantable, GPS-enabled chip is now becoming available.
4A counter used in certain gambling games to represent money. Example sentencesExamples - Poker chips are recommended, with the white chips representing 5 units, the reds 20, and the blues 1000.
- The score can be recorded on paper or you can settle up in money or chips after each hand.
- Money can be laundered through casinos by gamblers who buy chips, then cash them and provide a receipt to legitimise the proceeds.
- Life is a gamble, and I like playing ‘All-In’ (a poker term for gambling all your chips on one hand).
- If he likes to play the old-fashioned way, T. Anthony's game set holds cards, dice, poker chips, checkers, and chess.
- It was defined in terms of how much gold you could turn it in for, like redeeming chips for money at a casino.
- I thought maybe he'd taken a sudden interest in sewing but no - he intends to use them as gambling chips for poker games over at the other hotel.
- Palace Poker can be played without money or chips also.
- Scoring is best done with chips like many Chinese games.
- I did not look upon the chips as money; to me they were what they were - just pieces of plastic.
- Coins or small poker chips will serve as markers, and you can now buy little colored plastic train engines which look like the token from a Monopoly set.
- Based on an oval track car race, this fairly simple game uses cards as a track and poker chips as race cars.
- A poker player with lots of chips can force the game.
- The players also need a supply of money or chips for betting.
- That was a mercenary term for a poker game with fake chips, one just played for relaxation.
- Like poker chips, lasers may someday be molded out of plastic by the millions.
- One night after the game I cashed in more in poker chips than I started with.
- A drug dealer could convert his wads of notes into chips, put half on black and half on red then convert the chips back into clean money.
- They found it contained two bibles, a chess set, a backgammon game, a deck of cards, poker chips and several paper back pulp fiction novels.
- Instead of copy watches and copy CDs, I will sell copy casino chips and copy poker machine coins.
Synonyms counter, token, disc, jetton 5(in soccer, golf, and other sports) a short lofted kick or shot. Example sentencesExamples - The most famous kick that Cantona ever delivered wasn't a sublime chip or a match-winning penalty, but a two-footed karate kick.
- More often than not you'll leave the next shot short with your chip or putt, and you'll probably be long with the next.
- He hit a poor tee shot, required two chips to find the green and then two-putted from 10 feet.
- Similarly, York did not counter the fast-closing Park defence with the short chip kick.
- I've holed my share of chips and had quite a few near-misses.
- Left with her second shot, her little chip barely reached the green.
- A dropped shot loomed at the long 16th after another bad drive, but from just over the back of the green Clarke holed out for par, using one of his woods for the chip.
- We repeatedly are told to stop ‘quitting’ or decelerating at impact on our chips and putts.
- One touch took Giggs round the goalkeeper and a chip across the vacated goalmouth presented Ronaldo with the simplest of finishes.
- Among other things, you should also hit some chips and definitely some bunker shots.
- All week I just warmed up by hitting a few chips and putts.
- In the drill shown here, I'm trying to hit chips short, long, left and right - but not to the pin itself.
- But Tickle levelled the scores with a chip and chase to the line before Farrell's kick.
- If a player gets too aggressive on a downhill putt on one of those greens, his next shot could be a chip or a pitch from the fairway.
- I finally pulled it way left of the green, hit a bad chip and sank a 30-footer.
- His chip kick was partially charged down, but the bounce took it in front of the posts only for desperate Waterloo cover to clear the danger.
- The ball's solid rubber core and extremely thin but strong urethane elastomer cover appear to add distance to tee shots and control to chips and putts.
- If you do bail out right and short, you'll have an easy chip.
- Angling my shoulders so they are parallel to the slope lets me hit uphill chips just like any other chip shot.
- So, while Woods is easily the best in the world from a tough situation - he's the most creative and has the most shots - he struggles to hit straightforward chips stiff to the hole.
verbtʃɪpCHip [with object]1Cut or break (a small piece) from a hard material. we had to chip ice off the upper deck Example sentencesExamples - Modern porcelain enamel can be chipped but only with a very hard blow that bends the base metal.
- But day by day during those months, little Jamie chipped pieces of the sturdy shell that Serrah had made around herself.
- It fell on one's hair and froze there, creating a helmet of ice that had to be literally chipped away.
- He tried again with a harder swing and chipped off a small piece!
- That afternoon I'd chipped my own pieces off the Wall.
- Luckily they showed that I hadn't cracked it or chipped it.
- The old neighborhood was falling apart, the paint was chipping off of the aging buildings and graffiti covered dumpsters, trash cans, benches, everything.
- Just ask my dad and he'll willingly tell you how he had to chip an inch of ice off the windscreen before he could drive my mum to hospital.
- It was so cold in there sometimes that we could chip icicles off the inside of the window.
- A small hand shovel was leaning against the dirt wall in front of him and Eron picked it up and began chipping away portions of the wall.
- Her foot scuffed the pavement and chipped the side of a shallow pothole.
- Her head fell upon a wooden end table, chipping parts of it.
- As he fell face-first his mouth smashed against the hard corner of the table, chipping a front tooth.
- Huge damage has been done to the plaza and large pieces are being chipped out of the seats there.
- That movement saved him, as another silenced gunshot rang out, chipping the hard concrete floor above him.
- The surface of the rock was black from oxidation, and you could not always see the pink interior until you had chipped the piece with a rock hammer.
- Haha… did I say something about the tall, lanky boy who chipped half his teeth roller blading that I seem to like too much?
- But the projectile went very deep, so it may have chipped the bone a bit.
- A second test involves chipping small sections of concrete from the floor in several areas.
- The unusual shape of the stone is in part the result of early visitors chipping pieces off to use as talismans or for curative purposes.
Synonyms nick, crack, snick, scratch - 1.1no object (of a material or object) break at the edge or on the surface.
the paint had chipped off the gate Example sentencesExamples - Tables were overturned, the wood chipped off in jagged points with their legs snapped off and gnawed on.
- It is strong but can be chipped or broken easily, especially cup handles.
- Bollards look unsightly with their paints all chipped off.
- Everywhere paint was chipping, wood was cracking, piles of putrid garbage were collecting, and laundry lines were being strung anywhere it was possible to do so.
- Woks were rusty, cleaning equipment dirty, ceiling paint chipping and the food elevator was covered in blood and dried food.
- They were brown and the polish was chipping slowly.
- There were gouges in the stock and the paint had chipped off the selector switch.
- The lock had the appearance of a half - rusted mailbox; the wall it belonged to also owned a door with most of the paint chipped off.
- She saw a low ceiling with its paint chipped off - just like the ceiling of her house.
- It's carved, with paint chipping off and other paint coming through.
- In its first season, the league used red pucks, but the paint chipped off quickly.
- It was small, green paint chipping off everywhere.
- I don't like it much and the polish is chipping so I think I'm going to go for a rust color.
- The third response is that large crystals have a higher probability of being chipped or broken while being collected.
Synonyms break, break off, crack, fragment, crumble - 1.2 Cut pieces off (a hard material) to shape it or break it up.
craftsmen chipped the blocks of flint to the required shape no object she chipped away at the ground outside the door Example sentencesExamples - He soon came upon a small clearing where he found some saplings; he broke one off and found some rocks which he used to chip another rock into a point.
- As he chipped the stone away, Michael realized it was a cylindrical object, tapering gradually to a point at each end, made entirely of the odd, silvery metal.
- There was something about the beauty and simplicity of it that could chip the ice around a person's cold heart.
- Into this add 125g crushed amaretti biscuits with 125g chipped hazelnuts.
- He said for a night and a day the ice was chipped away revealing 54 bags of hashish ranging in weight from 50 to 100 pounds.
- Now, however, there's no shortage of wood chipping machines.
- It took three or four weekends to chip enough stone for one weekend's block laying.
- But we can always chip ice out of the north pole cap, that's a billion cubic kilometres of water ice just sitting there waiting to be dealt with.
- He was chipping away pieces of a large rock, slowly hollowing it out.
- In the U.S. eradication program, infested trees are also chipped into tiny pieces after they are taken down.
- I decide to work on the first option - chipping the rock away.
- The ‘bio-mass’ or wood is then chipped, dried and stored in the same way as grain.
- Now it's lying on the beach and he's chipped away the mud and shells to reveal an iron canon.
- He turns a chunk of wood over in his hands, mulling how he could cut it, sand it, chip it, glue it into something.
- This would be repeated until the rock was chipped down to the approximate size and shape of one of the few dozen letters in the flatumm alphabet.
- He reached for a piece and just a hair too close to his fingers for comfort a knife chipped wood.
- For a lot of them, we had to chip the ice away from their feet to get them off the belt until we could get those birds run.
- Once the trees have been chipped, the material is collected to be used at the Wigan Road centre for landscaping.
- Once cooled, the outer clay is chipped away and the carbonized core reamed out, with the casting filed and chased.
- Timber will be chipped, and papers and cardboards will be baled.
2(in golf, soccer, and other sports) kick or strike (a ball or shot) to produce a short lobbed shot or pass. Example sentencesExamples - Try to chip the ball so it lands on the towel and rolls to the hole.
- One thing every golfer can appreciate is a player who can chip the ball well.
- His shot arrived at the feet of Kerins, who skilfully chipped the ball over the stranded goalkeeper and into the net.
- He plays half the second hole one-handed, chipping the ball along the fairway with his right hand while cradling the phone to his ear with his left.
- Though Sullivan, timing his run from the wing to perfection, appeared to have chipped the ball over Shelley, a superb late tackle thwarted him.
- Larsson chips the ball across the face of the Anderlecht goal.
- Players chip the ball around rather than kicking long to packs so there are fewer marking contests involving more than two players.
- He chips the ball over Given and it bounces clear of both a backtracking Finnan and the empty net.
- But they played as if it was a fine day - chipping the ball around, setting things up.
- O'Connor chipped the ball into the penalty area where Martin Reilly headed home from six yards.
- He chipped his third shot through the green and watched as his fourth dribbled back to his feet before avoiding a double bogey by chipping in from 35 feet.
- At the far end, Kanu shimmies outside the box, makes room for a shot and tries to chip the ball into the top left-hand corner.
- I often see amateurs try to chip the ball and just chunk it, leaving it in the rough.
- At one point in the game, Franco Baresi chipped the ball out to the left where Paolo Maldini was waiting on the touchline.
- Beckham adroitly chips a dangerous ball into the box - who does he think he is, Zidane?
- Faced with a stymie in the afternoon round, Runyan casually chipped his ball over Snead's and into the cup for another winner.
- Many 90s-shooters try to chip the ball from a snarled lie just off the green.
- The president was in the small putting green outside the Oval Office chipping golf balls and whining - he did this a lot - to his aides.
- He dummies Beye and has so much time and space to play with, it's inevitable he chips the ball lamely into the grateful hands of Runje.
- Thomas Hunt was in the right place at the right time and chipped a right-footed shot from the edge of the penalty area into an empty net.
Phrases informal Someone who resembles their parent in character or appearance. Example sentencesExamples - Martin is literally a chip off the old block and carries on the family tradition not just by chops but also by manufacturing top quality racing axes.
- Yes, perhaps Ferry is a chip off the old block after all.
- Somebody looked at me, then at my father and decided, ‘He's a chip off the old block.’
- Scott had taken Sean's promotion at the law firm, and Mr. Sinclair had no doubt in his mind that Brandon was a chip off the old block.
- I didn't know she had it in her… but perhaps she's more of a chip off the old block than I gave her credit for.
- Son has worked with father since his teens and, by all accounts, is definitely a chip off the old block for, like his dad, Chris is ‘a practical guy’.
- If young Les proves to be a chip off the old block, then Workers are, indeed, in good hands.
- But the fly-half is a chip off the old block when it comes to meticulous planning and almost disturbing dedication to duty.
- So, like a chip off the old block, I felt compelled to keep telling the story until someone graced me with a response.
- And five years after that reunion, there is no doubt now that Ford is very much a chip off the old block.
- Renowned as a playboy who has dated a string of Indonesian starlets, Tommy is, as the saying goes, a chip off the old block.
- Glen, of Lowther Crescent, Leyland, said it all happened so quickly, but is thrilled for Sam who is clearly a chip off the old block.
- Daniel '71, Ph.D. '78 (early Islamic history), is what old-timers would call a chip off the old block.
- She was also developing an expensive, hedonistic lifestyle, proving she was a chip off the old block, and she graduated into a notorious celebrity.
- Is his son a chip off the old block in interest in international affairs?
- He claims his inheritance, transforms his arid lands into a lush and prosperous farm through an irrigation scheme, and is generally seen as a chip off the old block.
- He might even turn out to be a chip off the old block.
- He certainly is a chip off the old block - he not only bears a striking resemblance to his father but also moves very much like him.
- And he's a brick, a chip off the old block, a good ‘un.
- King Abdullah is a chip off the old block, really.
informal A deeply ingrained grievance or feeling of resentment, often deriving from a sense of inferiority and marked by aggressive behavior. Example sentencesExamples - ‘You can't go around with a chip on your shoulder, blaming the world for your problems,’ he says of the rioters.
- I suppose you could grow up with a chip on your shoulder.
- The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside books about nuns and birdwatchers and cats who solve crimes.
- Le petit merde, also known as Douglas Alexander, has insisted he's going to support England and that anybody who doesn't has got a chip on their shoulder.
- If you've got a chip on your shoulder about men and you take that with you to your next relationship, then he's dead in the water before he ever starts.
- ‘I suppose I did have a little bit of a chip on my shoulder,’ he said.
- But having to break into America certainly is annoying, and it is sort of something I've got a chip on my shoulder about.
- Now, if you're a child of parents being snubbed, I think it's perfectly natural to develop a chip on your shoulder.
- ‘Football is such a violent game, a player really needs to have a chip on their shoulder to succeed,’ he says.
- To have a chip on your shoulder against authority is immature.
- Savage, like many people who are motivated by hatred, has a chip on his shoulder as a failed academic rejected by liberal Berkeley.
- Maybe I have a chip on my shoulder about John's skill as a wordsmith.
- I had a chip on my shoulder about the chips on other people's shoulders, and as so often with shoulder chips, the chips I perceived in others were often imagined or exaggerated.
- I WOULD be a liar if I said I didn't have a chip on my shoulder about Italian restaurants.
- I think you have a chip on your shoulder about private education.
- But if you complain too much you have got a chip on your shoulder.
- ‘I tried to take lads who had a bit of a chip on their shoulder,’ he said.
- Still, he found himself plunged right into the middle of the notoriously divided jazz world, where every camp views others with suspicion, and everyone seems to have a chip on their shoulder.
- This family obviously has a chip on their shoulder and another thought should not be wasted on this.
- I have a chip on my shoulder because I think it is uncalled for that I get dog's abuse in every game, year after year.
Synonyms bitterness, indignation, irritation, pique, displeasure, dissatisfaction, disgruntlement, discontentment, discontent, resentfulness, bad feelings, hard feelings, ill feelings, acrimony, rancour, animosity, hostility, jaundice, antipathy, antagonism, enmity, hatred, hate
informal When a very serious and difficult situation arises. Example sentencesExamples - It is like a family, and when the chips are down, everybody is there and just sort of mucks in,’ she says.
- I learnt a lot about people and dignity when the chips are down and this started my interest in helping people plan their careers and achieve a measure of survivability.
- The team that used to put away inferior teams with such professional élan in the past is starting too look a little lacklustre when the chips are down.
- What has happened to and because of the Tampa, the arrogant misbehaving in the face of the rule of law, is something that, when the chips are down, could happen to every one of us here.
- But when the chips are down (despite some pretty unlikely situations), their determination shines through.
- But in actual fact when the chips are down and the global operations centre cannot diagnose what's wrong with a particular service, it falls back on people in the field.
- A truly mean player won't hesitate to play dirty when the chips are down.
- This is a dreamy, imaginative and sensitive sign, but underneath is a steely strength that can be relied upon when the chips are down; hence the rapid recovery when the band hit trouble.
- ‘I think it's really important when the chips are down to support your home team,’ she said.
- In crunch time, to use another sports analogy, when the chips are down, those of us who cover sports do tend to let our fandom show, and this is despite the jaded nature of the average sports reporter.
- But the crisis has shown us how amazing people can be when the chips are down.
- He also needs to show that, notwithstanding his mostly-superficial second term problems, he can get what he wants from the Senate when the chips are down.
- But the fact is that, when the chips are down, most people haven't the courage or have too much to lose to confront the boss - whatever the situation.
- I think it is the job of supporters to encourage as much as possible, even when the chips are down, and if expectations have not been met by the final whistle then fans should vent their frustration.
- Joe's Zimbabwe post talked about a number of things, but I want to draw on my experience and focus on one thing: what makes people act when the chips are down?
- It's a great place to play when the chips are down.
- But when the chips are down, Douglas has no doubt that things will be different, citing the controlled aggression displayed last year as evidence.
- If, however, you do not see eye-to-eye with your investors then their rights - particularly when the chips are down - can become a restriction on the development of your business.
- CAN A person trust others for support when the chips are down?
- And that in itself is another cause for satisfaction, another sign of a ‘team’ unified in its aim; when the chips are down and things aren't going their way they roll up their sleeves and dig in.
Phrasal Verbs chip in (or chip something in) 1Contribute something as one's share of a joint activity, cost, etc. Rollie chipped in with nine saves and five wins the council will chip in a further £30,000 a year Example sentencesExamples - ‘Too often we win games through an individual performance and to be a complete side capable of winning next year's World Cup we need to get everyone chipping in,’ he said.
- If he keeps popping up in the box, he could end up being a midfield player who chips in with double figures - maybe not this year, but in future years.
- Although the money from the Government is not a substantial amount, if everyone chips in the total can add up very nicely.
- Enough revenue was chipped in, so to speak, to allow him to open a new restaurant on Second Avenue, where the food wasn't as sublime as its inspiration but was far more affordable.
- It's good that all our strikers are scoring and, with the other players chipping in too, we're always going to be a goal-scoring threat.
- And finally, the celebrated tv personality Melvyn Bragg chips in with this.
- Do it now and don't forget to fill out a gift aid declaration so that Uncle Gordon Brown chips in and increases your donation by 28%.
- For AAM, Paddy Conlon replied with a hat-trick, but with Bruce Rowan, Ryan Cathro, Gordon Shepherd and Dailly again chipping in after half time, Wanderers made it look comfortable.
- Old songwriting hand Tom Morgan chips in, so does Ben Lee with two beauties, and Jellyfish's Jon Brion not only co-produces but co-writes five tracks.
- He scored 18 goals in Greece last season so I expect him to be chipping in when he gets in the swing.
- We have thought of a few options like borrowing a barn on a farm and doing it all up and looking at everyone else chipping in.
Synonyms contribute, donate, give, make a contribution, make a donation, hand over, pay 2Make an interjectio; interject. with direct speech ‘He's right,’ Gloria chipped in Example sentencesExamples - His pal, a farmer's son, chips in, ‘Not as serious now, though, is it?’
- ‘And not when she's got this very tough-looking girlfriend hovering in the background,’ Ryan chips in.
- ‘How you feature in it, and the respect they (the artist) have for you,’ Lotta chips in.
- That thought seems to have occurred to his daughter as well: ‘I wouldn't enjoy playing the game that I love for money,’ she chips in.
- Fellow dancer Dave Brisk chips in, ‘It's also a great opportunity to meet new people and make some new friends.’
- ‘Well, if we're using a fender amp we should really use a fender cab ’, Andy chips in.
- But that didn't stop Gilz chipping in with the now days old argument, ‘If you go to a farm there's milk and cheese.’
- Geoff chips in: ‘By the eighth day we had almost given up hope and would have settled for just a phone call to let us know she was safe and being well cared for.’
- ‘And the only thing that me and Kenny know is music so we just did that and created this huge bouncing building,’ Woody chips in.
Synonyms interrupt, cut in, chime in, break in, interject, interpose, butt in
Origin Middle English: related to Old English forcippian ‘cut off’. |