chip

chip¹ W3S2 [tʃıp] n

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1¦(food)¦

2¦(computer)¦

3¦(piece)¦

4¦(mark)¦

5 have a chip on your shoulder

6 when the chips are down

7 be a chip off the old block

8¦(game)¦

9¦(sport)¦

10 have had your chips

11 let the chips fall (where they may)

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[: Old English; Origin: cipp, cyp 'small piece of wood', from Latin cippus 'sharp post']

1.) ¦(FOOD)¦

a) BrE [usually plural]

a long thin piece of potato cooked in oil

American Equivalent: French fry

▪ fish and chips

▪ a bag of chips

b) AmE [usually plural]

a thin flat round piece of food such as potato cooked in very hot oil and eaten cold

British Equivalent: crisp

▪ They gave us bags of potato chips .

2.) ¦(COMPUTER)¦

a small piece of ↑silicon that has a set of complicated electrical connections on it and is used to store and ↑process information in computers

▪ the age of the silicon chip

▪ chip technology

3.) ¦(PIECE)¦

a small piece of wood, stone, metal etc that has been broken off something

▪ Wood chips covered the floor of the workshop.

▪ a chocolate chip cookie (=one that contains small pieces of chocolate)

4.) ¦(MARK)¦

a small hole or mark on a plate, cup etc where a piece has broken off

chip in

▪ There's a chip in this bowl.

5.) have a chip on your shoulder

to easily become offended or angry because you think you have been treated unfairly in the past

6.) when the chips are down

spoken in a serious or difficult situation, especially one in which you realize what is really true or important

▪ When the chips are down, you've only got yourself to depend on.

7.) be a chip off the old block informal

to be very similar to your mother or father in appearance or character

8.) ¦(GAME)¦ [usually plural]

a small flat coloured piece of plastic used in games such as ↑poker or ↑blackjack to represent a particular amount of money

9.) ¦(SPORT)¦ also chip shot, chip kick

a hit in golf, or a kick in football or ↑rugby, that makes the ball go high into the air for a short distance

10.) have had your chips

BrE informal to be in a situation in which you no longer have any hope of improvement

11.) let the chips fall (where they may)

AmE to not worry about what the results of a particular action will be

▪ I decided to tell her my opinion and let the chips fall where they may.

→↑blue chip,cash in your chips at cash in(3)

chip ²

chip² v past tense and past participle chipped present participle chipping

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1¦(accidentally break (something))¦

2¦(remove something)¦

3¦(sport)¦

4¦(potatoes)¦

Phrasal verbs

　chip away at something

　chip in

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1.) ¦(ACCIDENTALLY BREAK (SOMETHING))¦ [I and T]

if you chip something, or if it chips, a small piece of it breaks off accidentally

▪ Gary fell and chipped one of his front teeth.

▪ He chipped a bone in his knee and was carried off the pitch.

▪ These plates chip really easily.

chip off

▪ The paint had chipped off the gate.

2.) ¦(REMOVE SOMETHING)¦ [I,T always + adverb/preposition]

to remove something, especially something hard that is covering a surface, by hitting it with a tool so that small pieces break off

▪ Archaeologists were carefully chipping away at the rock.

▪ You have to chip the rust off before you start painting.

▪ Chip out the plaster with a steel chisel.

3.) ¦(SPORT)¦ [T]

to hit a golf ball or kick a football or a ↑rugby ball so that it goes high into the air for a short distance

▪ United scored just before half-time when Adcock cleverly chipped the ball over the keeper.

4.) ¦(POTATOES)¦ [T]

BrE to cut potatoes into thin pieces ready to be cooked in hot oil

chip away at [chip away at sth] phr v

to gradually make something less effective or destroy it

▪ Writers such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society.

▪ Fears about the future chipped away at her sense of well-being.

chip in phr v

1.) to interrupt a conversation by saying something that adds more detail

chip in with

▪ Other committee members chipped in with suggestions.

▪ 'It won't be easy,' Jeff chipped in.

▪ I'd just like to chip in, Bill, if I might.

2.) if each person in a group chips in, they each give a small amount of money so that they can buy something together

▪ We all chipped in to buy Amy a graduation present.

chip in (with) sth

▪ 52 people in the music industry each chipped in $250 apiece.