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chip

//t͡ʃɪp//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for chip

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Forms

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural: chips

Verb
A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1): chip
past (v2): chipped
past participle (v3): chipped
present participle: chipping
3rd person singular: chips

Definitions

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1.A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
- The floor of the sculptor's studio was strewn with chips of marble.
- The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
2.A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
- This cup has a chip in it.
3.A token used in place of cash.
4.A medallion.

Verb
A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1.To chop or cut into small pieces.
- The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch.
- Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on).
2.To break small pieces from.
- Be careful not to chip the paint.
3.To become chipped.
4.To strike or play (the ball or other implement) as a chip shot.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #2376

By learning goal

Everyday conversation: Rare
General reading & writing: Uncommon
Academic: Rare
Literature: Rare

Related words

Synonyms

bit

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *kippōną

Proto-West Germanic *kippōn

Old English *ċippiander.

Old English ċipp

Middle English chippe

English chip

Noun from Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ċipp (“chip; small piece of wood, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-West Germanic *kippōn (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Germanic *kippōną (“to chip, chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kip, keep (“notch; nick; score”), Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop.

The formally similar Old English ċipp, ċypp, ċyp (“a beam; log; stock; post”), from Proto-Germanic *kippaz (“log; beam”) (whence Old Saxon kip (“post”), Old High German kipfa, chipfa (“axle, stave”), Old Norse keppr (“cudgel, club”)) is a different, unrelated word either borrowed from Latin cippus (“stake; pale; post”) or borrowed from the same source language as the Latin.

Verb from Middle English chippen, from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) – see above.

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Princeton WordNet (WordNet License)
Tatoeba (CC BY)
COCA / wordfrequency.info (derived frequency bands only)

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