chip /chip/

1. To strike with small sharp cutting blows
2. To strike or break small pieces off the surface of (also with at)
3. To remove by chipping (often with away or off)
4. To slice or pare
5. To cut as with an adze
6. To chaff, tease (informal)

1. To become chipped
2. To play a chip shot

1. An act of chipping
2. A piece chipped off, esp a flattish fragment
3. A small fragment of stone (also chippˈing)
4. A surface flaw or mark left when a small piece has been broken off
5. A thin slice or small piece of food, eg fruit
6. A potato-chip
7. A potato crisp (N American)
8. A thin strip of wood, used for making boxes, baskets, etc
9. A basket or container made in this way
10. A small, flat piece of wood, plastic, etc used to represent money in certain games
11. A popular name for an integrated circuit, derived from the method of manufacture in which each chip, containing the microcircuit, is made as part of a wafer (also called microchip or silicon chip)
12. A piece of money (slang)
13. A piece of dried dung of cow or bison
14. A hit or kick which sends a ball high into the air over a short distance (sport)
15. A chip shot (golf)
16. A key on a musical instrument (archaic)

chippˈer noun

1. A device that makes chips
2. A chip shop (Irish inf)

chippˈie noun (NZ)

A potato crisp

chippˈing noun

chippˈy adjective

1. Abounding in chips
2. Dry as a chip
3. Seedy from taking too much alcohol
4. Touchy, quarrelsome, aggressive (Can informal)
5. Having a chip on one's shoulder (see below; informal)

1. (also chippˈie) (a meal from) a chip shop (informal)
2. See also chips and separate entry chippy¹

chips noun (slang)

1. A carpenter (also chippˈy)
2. A regimental pioneer sergeant, usu a carpenter
3. Money

Fried potato-chips

chip and PIN noun

A system of payment using a credit or debit card with an integrated microchip, the card-holder entering a personal identification number to authorize the payment

chipˈ-based adjective (electronics)

(of parts or equipment) using, controlled by or incorporating microchips

chip basket noun

1. A fruit basket of interwoven chips
2. A metal basket in which potato-chips are placed for frying

chipˈboard noun

1. Reconstructed wood made by consolidation of chips from woodland trimmings, workshop waste, etc, with added resin
2. A wastepaper cardboard used in box-making

chip carving noun

Wood carving by removal of small splinters

chip hat noun

A hat of palm-leaf strips

chip heater noun (Aust and NZ)

A type of water-heater that is fuelled by burning chips of wood

chipˈset noun (computing)

A group of chips that performs particular functions

chip shop noun

A restaurant selling takeaway meals of fish and chips, etc

chip shot noun (golf)

A shot, usu from close to the green, giving the ball a low trajectory so that it runs forward on pitching

chip in

1. To enter the game by putting chips on the table (gambling)
2. To interpose
3. To pay part of the cost of something (informal)

chip off (or origof) the old block

Someone with the characteristics of (usu one of) their parents

chip on one's shoulder

1. An aggressively defiant manner, as if daring anyone to knock it off
2. Sensitivity or readiness to take offence, usu about a supposed fault or weakness in one's personality or background
3. Bitterness, grievance

have had one's chips

1. To have died
2. To have had and lost one's chance
3. To have been beaten

when the chips are down

At a moment of crisis or critically important time

silica /silˈi-kə/

Silicon dioxide or silicic anhydride, occurring in nature as quartz, chalcedony, etc, and (amorphous and hydrated) as opal

Composed of silica

silˈicate noun

1. One of the largest group of minerals, all of which are composed of silicon, oxygen and one or more metals, with or without hydrogen
2. Any salt of silicic acid or derived from silicon

To combine, coat, or impregnate with silica or silicates

siliceous or silicious /-ishˈəs/ adjective

Of or containing silica

silicic /-isˈik/ adjective

Relating to, or obtained from, silica (silicic acid a general name for a group of acids, eg orthosilicˈic, H₄SiO₄; metasilicˈic, H₂SiO₃)

silicicolous /-sikˈ/ adjective

(L colere to cultivate, inhabit) growing on siliceous soil

silˈicide /-sīd/ noun

A compound of silicon and another element

silicifˈerous adjective

Containing silica

silicification /si-lis-i-fi-kāˈshən/ noun

silicified /-lisˈ/ adjective

silicˈify transitive verb

1. To render siliceous
2. To impregnate or cement with or replace by silica

To become siliceous

silˈicon /-kon or -kən/ noun

A non-metallic element (symbol Si; atomic no 14), forming grey crystals or brown amorphous powder and having semiconducting properties (formerly called silicium /-lisˈ or -lishˈ/)

silˈicone noun

Any of a number of extremely stable organic derivatives of silicon, used in rubbers, lubricants, polishes, etc

silicosis /-kōˈsis/ noun

A lung disease caused by the prolonged inhalation of silica dust

silicotˈic noun and adjective

silica gel noun

An absorbent form of silica used as a drying agent, and as a catalyst in many chemical processes

silicon carbide noun

A hard, crystalline compound, widely used as an abrasive and in cutting, grinding and polishing instruments

silicon chip see under chip

silicon valley noun

A district or area in which there is a concentration of information technology industries (from the orig Silicon Valley in California)

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