chipnoun
uk/tʃɪp/us/tʃɪp/chip noun (FRIED FOOD)
A1 [ C usually plural ] UK US French fry a long, thin piece of potato that is fried and usually eaten hot:
A2 [ C usually plural ] US US also potato chip, UK (potato) crisp a very thin, often round piece of fried potato, sometimes with a flavour added, sold especially in plastic bags:
[ C usually plural ] a thin slice of fried maize, banana, or other food that is eaten cold:
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- Cod and chips, please.
- He consumes vast quantities of chips with every meal.
- Joe demolished an enormous plateful of sausages and chips.
- The children seem to exist on a diet of burgers and chips.
- I've just bought a deep-fat fryer for cooking chips.
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Forms of potatoes as food
- aloo
- alu
- baked potato
- bubble and squeak
- crisp
- croquette
- finger chip
- French fry
- fries
- hash browns
- jacket potato
- mash
- mashed potatoes
- potato chip
- potato salad
- rösti
- shoestring potatoes
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chip noun (COMPUTER PART)
B2 [ C ] also microchip a very small piece of semiconductor, especially in a computer, that contains extremely small electronic circuits and devices, and can perform particular operations:
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- The computer chip compresses and decompresses a colour image in less than a second.
- The invention of the silicon chip was a landmark in the history of the computer.
- The silicon chip is a classic example of the benefits of miniaturization.
- Using a single chip reduces (the) noise on the output signal by 90%.
- We use a Pentium chip.
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Electrical components & circuitry
- accumulator
- anode
- armature
- baseband chip
- capacitor
- cathode ray
- circuit
- circuit board
- commutator
- electrics
- electrode
- electromotive
- fuel cell
- fused
- grid
- integrated circuit
- LED display
- negative pole
- NiCad
- parallel
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chip noun (PIECE)
[ C ] a small piece that has been broken off a larger object, or the mark left on an object such as a cup, plate, etc. where a small piece has been broken off it:
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Words meaning small pieces and amounts
- by a nose idiom
- clipping
- crumb
- dollop
- droplet
- flake
- germ
- jot
- nose
- pat
- patch
- pennyworth
- pinprick
- ray
- scattering
- scintilla
- shadow
- shard
- shred
- trace
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chip noun (PLASTIC COIN)
[ C ] a small plastic disc used to represent a particular amount of money in gambling:
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Gambling & bookmaking
- ante
- bank
- banker
- bet
- bookmaker
- cockfight
- dice
- draw
- gamble
- gaming table
- grab bag
- heads or tails? idiom
- high roller
- juke joint
- lose
- lucky dip
- spin a coin idiom
- stake
- tombola
- toss
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chip noun (SPORT)
[ C ] a kick in football or a hit in golf, in which the ball goes high into the air for a short time:
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General terms used in ball sports
- aggregate score
- assist
- attack
- back pass
- bobble
- center circle
- goalless
- holding
- lay
- layoff
- long ball
- man on! idiom
- man-to-man defense
- man-to-man marking
- overarm
- set piece
- shoot
- sidespin
- unplayable
- wrong-foot
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Idiom(s)
chipverb [ I or T ]
uk/tʃɪp/us/tʃɪp/-pp-chip verb [ I or T ] (BREAK)
to break a small piece off something by accident:
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Tearing and breaking into pieces
- apart
- asunder
- bobble
- break (sth) off
- breakage
- catch
- fall apart
- flake
- fragment
- fragmented
- frayed
- in ribbons idiom
- knacker
- pull sth apart
- rent
- rip
- shear
- split
- tear sth up
- torn
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chip verb [ I or T ] (KICK/HIT)
to kick a football or hit a golf ball high into the air for a short distance:
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General terms used in ball sports
- aggregate score
- assist
- attack
- back pass
- bobble
- center circle
- goalless
- holding
- lay
- layoff
- long ball
- man on! idiom
- man-to-man defense
- man-to-man marking
- overarm
- set piece
- shoot
- sidespin
- unplayable
- wrong-foot
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