| 单词 | chip |
| 释义 | chip (once / 407 pages) 1nv 2n 3n 4n 5nv If a small flake of your purple nail polish breaks off, you might describe it as a chip, or a tiny piece. You might also say, "Shoot, I always seem to chip my nails." You can use the word chip as a noun or a verb, to describe the breaking off of a small piece or the small piece itself. You might accidentally chip your aunt's favorite tea cup, or realize that slamming your door made a chip of paint fall off your bedroom wall. The word comes from the Old English forcippian, "to pare away by cutting," and the related cipp, also pronounced chip, which means "small piece of wood." WORD FAMILYchip: chipped, chipping, chips, microchip+/chipping: chippings/microchip: microchips USAGE EXAMPLESIntel focuses on central processing units, the general-purpose chips proficient in completing a wide range of tasks and quickly switching from one to the next. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) Goodbye, Mr Chips is an example of how the inspirational movie is a cousin to the weepie. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) And for another, Cleveland — despite efforts to sell bobbleheads and woo conventioneers — remains a city with a chip on its shoulder. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n a small fragment of something broken off from the whole Syn|Hypo|Hyper bit, flake, fleck, scrap matchwood fragments of wood exfoliation, scale, scurfa thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin scurf(botany) a covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant parts sliver, splintera small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal dandersmall scales from animal skins or hair or bird feathers that can cause allergic reactions in some people dandruffloose scales shed from the scalp fragment a piece broken off or cut off of something else 2n the act of chipping something Syn|Hyper chipping, splintering break, breakage, breaking the act of breaking something 3n a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something Syn|Hyper check blemish, defect, mar a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) 4n a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat Syn|Hyper Saratoga chip, crisp, potato chip snack food food for light meals or for eating between meals 5n a piece of dried bovine dung Syn|Hyper buffalo chip, cow chip, cow dung droppings, dung, muck fecal matter of animals 6v break off (a piece from a whole) Her tooth chipped Syn|Hypo|Hyper break away, break off, chip off, come off flake, flake off, peel, peel off come off in flakes or thin small pieces exfoliatecome off in a very thin piece divide, part, separate come apart 7v break a small piece off from chip the glass chip a tooth Syn|Hyper break off, cut off, knap cut separate with or as if with an instrument 8v cut a nick into Syn|Hyper nick cut separate with or as if with an instrument 9v form by chipping 2They chipped their names in the stone Hyper forge, form, mold, mould, shape, work make something, usually for a specific function n a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper poker chip blue chip a blue poker chip with the highest value counter 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 n a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line 4Hyper float something that floats on the surface of water n electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit 5Syn|Hypo|Hyper micro chip, microchip, microprocessor chip, silicon chip biochip 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 environment DNA chip, gene chipa microchip that holds DNA probes that form half of the DNA double helix and can recognize DNA from samples being tested memory chipa RAM microchip that can be plugged into a computer to provide additional memory microprocessorintegrated circuit semiconductor chip that performs the bulk of the processing and controls the parts of a system read-only memory chipa memory chip providing read-only memory semiconductor, semiconductor device, semiconductor unit a conductor made with semiconducting material 1n (golf) a low running approach shot Syn|Hyper chip shot approach, approach shot a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green 2v play a chip shot Hyper shoot throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective |
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