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Meaning of 'chip'
Meaning of 'chip' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Chip 
[ n.]
- A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an
ax, chisel, or cutting instrument. [ n.]- A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.
- Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
- Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.
- One of the counters used in poker and other games.
- The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
2. Chip [ v. i.]
- To break or fly off in small pieces. [ v. i.]3. Chip [ v. t.]
- To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape,
by cutting away a little at a time; to hew. [ v. t.]- To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
- To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.
Meaning of 'chip' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. chip [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
Example in sentence:
- a bit of rock caught him in the eye
2. chip [ v]
[ v]Meaning (2):
- break a small piece off from
- break a small piece off from
Example in sentence:
- chip a tooth;
- chip the glass
Meaning (3):
- break off (a piece from a whole)
- break off (a piece from a whole)
Example in sentence:
- Her tooth chipped
Meaning (4):
- form by chipping
- form by chipping
Example in sentence:
- They chipped their names in the stone
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