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RELATED WORDS : bargaining chip blue chip buffalo chip chip at chip away chip away at chip in chip off chip off the old block chip shot chocolate chip cookie corn chip cow chip dna chip gene chip memory chip micro chip poker chip potato chip read-only memory chip saratoga chip silicon chip tortilla chip

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun chip has 9 senses

• chip(n = noun.object) bit, flake, fleck, scrap - a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"
is a kind of fragment
has particulars: matchwood, exfoliation, scale, scurf, scurf, sliver, splinter
Derived forms verb chip₅, verb chip₁, verb chip₄

• chip(n = noun.artifact) Array - a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line; Array
is a kind of float

• chip(n = noun.object) buffalo chip, cow chip, cow dung - a piece of dried bovine dung; Array
is a kind of droppings, dung, muck

• chip(n = noun.food) crisp, potato chip, saratoga chip - a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat; Array
is a kind of snack food

• chip(n = noun.attribute) check - a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something; Array
is a kind of blemish, defect, mar
Derived form verb chip₂

• chip(n = noun.artifact) poker chip - a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling; Array
has particulars: blue chip
is a kind of counter

• chip(n = noun.artifact) micro chip, microchip, microprocessor chip, silicon chip - electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit; Array
has particulars: biochip, dna chip, gene chip, memory chip, microprocessor
is a part of computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system
has parts: integrated circuit, microcircuit
is a kind of semiconductor, semiconductor device, semiconductor unit

• chip(n = noun.act) chip shot - (golf) a low running approach shot; Array
is a kind of approach, approach shot
Derived form verb chip₃

• chip(n = noun.act) chipping, splintering - the act of chipping something; Array
is a kind of break, breakage, breaking
Derived forms verb chip₅, verb chip₁

Verb chip has 5 senses

• chip(v = verb.contact) break away, break off, chip off, come off - break off (a piece from a whole); "Her tooth chipped"
is one way to divide, part, separate
Derived forms noun chip₉, noun chip₁, noun chipping₁
Sample sentences:
The glass tubes chip
These glasses chip easily

• chip(v = verb.contact) nick - cut a nick into; Array
is one way to cut
Derived form noun chip₅
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

• chip(v = verb.contact) Array - play a chip shot; Array
is one way to shoot
Derived form noun chip₈
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s

• chip(v = verb.contact) Array - form by chipping; "They chipped their names in the stone"
is one way to forge, form, mold, mould, shape, work
Derived form noun chip₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• chip(v = verb.contact) break off, cut off, knap - break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"
is one way to cut
Derived forms noun chip₉, noun chip₁, noun chipping₁
Sample sentence:
They chip the glass tubes

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THESAURUS

chip

abrade, abrasion, air, bark, bit, blemish, bloody, breach, break, break in, breakage, bubble, burn, burst, bust, butt, chafe, chaff, check, cheep, chime in, chip in, chipper, chirm, chirrup, chisel, chitter, chunk, claw, cleft, clip, clipping, cobweb, collop, concussion, contribute, cork, counter, crack, crackle, craze, crumb, cut, cutting, dandruff, dollop, down, dust, end, ether, exfoliate, fairy, feather, fissure, flake, flash burn, floccule, flocculus, flock, flue, fluff, foam, fracture, fragment, fray, frazzle, fret, froth, fuzz, gall, gap, gash, gob, gobbet, gossamer, hew, hunk, hurt, incise, incision, injure, injury, intercede, interfere, interpose, interrupt, intrude, lacerate, laceration, lesion, lump, maim, make mincemeat of, marker, maul, modicum, moiety, morceau, morsel, mortal wound, mote, mutilate, mutilation, nip, paring, participate, particle, patch, peep, piece, pierce, plaque, puncture, rasher, rend, rent, rift, rip, run, rupture, savage, scald, scale, scoop, scorch, scotch, scrap, scrape, scratch, scuff, scurf, second-degree burn, shard, shaving, shiver, shred, skin, slash, slice, slit, sliver, smithereen, snack, snap, snatch, snick, snip, snippet, sore, splinter, split, sponge, sprain, spume, stab, stab wound, stick, stitch, strain, straw, stump, tag, tatter, tear, third-degree burn, thistledown, token, trauma, traumatize, tweedle, tweet, twitter, whittle, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench

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Smallness

N smallness, littleness, tenuity, paucity, fewness, meanness, insignificance (unimportance), mediocrity, moderation, small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum, vanishing point, material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace, minutiae, details, look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow, spark, scintilla, gleam, touch, cast, grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture, inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive, snip, snippet, snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag, chip, chipping, shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair, nutshell, thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful, fragment, fraction, drop in the ocean, animalcule, trifle, mere nothing, next to nothing, hardly anything, just enough to swear by, the shadow of a shade, finiteness, finite quantity, small, little, diminutive, minute, fine, inconsiderable, paltry, faint, slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited, meager, sparing, few, low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes, below par, under par, below the mark, at a low ebb, halfway, moderate, modest, tender, subtle, inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small, atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare, near run, dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent, to a small extent, on a small scale, a little bit, a wee bit, slightly, imperceptibly, miserably, wretchedly, insufficiently, imperfectly, faintly, passably, pretty well, well enough, partially, in part, in a certain degree, to a certain degree, to a certain extent, comparatively, some, rather in some degree, in some measure, something, somewhat, simply, only, purely, merely, at least, at the least, at most, at the most, ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree, thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak, almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but, near upon, close upon, peu s'en faut, near the mark, within an ace of, within an inch of, on the brink of, scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than, about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say, be the same, be little more or less, no ways, no way, no wise, not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow, in no wise, in no respect, by no means, by no manner of means, on no account, at no hand, dare pondus idonea fumo, magno conatu magnas nugas, small sands the mountain, moments make the year.

Disjunction

VB be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.

Part

N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.

Contraction

VB become small, become smaller, lessen, decrease, grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb, decay, be smaller than, fall short of, not come up to, render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate, boil down, constrict, constringe, condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow, pinch, tighten, strangle, cramp, dwarf, bedwarf, shorten, circumscribe, restrain, (subtraction) 38 abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.

Indication

N indication, symbolism, symbolization, semiology, semiotics, semeiology, semeiotics, Zeitgeist, characteristic, diagnostic, lineament, feature, trait, fingerprint, voiceprint, footprint, noseprint, cloven hoof, footfall, recognition (memory), diagnostic, divining rod, detector, sign, symbol, index, indice, indicator, point, pointer, exponent, note, token, symptom, dollar sign, dollar mark, type, figure, emblem, cipher, device, representation, epigraph, motto, posy, gesture, gesticulation, pantomime, wink, glance, leer, nod, shrug, beck, touch, nudge, dactylology, dactylonomy, freemasonry, telegraphy, chirology, byplay, dumb show, cue, hint, clue, clew, key, scent, signal, signal post, rocket, blue light, watch fire, watch tower, telegraph, semaphore, flagstaff, cresset, fiery cross, calumet, heliograph, guidon, headlight, mark, scratch, line, stroke, dash, score, stripe, streak, tick, dot, point, notch, nick, print, imprint, impress, impression, keyboard symbols, printing symbols, red letter, italics, sublineation, underlining, bold font, jotting, note, annotation, reference, blaze, cedilla, guillemets, hachure, quotation marks, ", double quotes, " ", parentheses, "( )", brackets, "", braces, "", left arrow, "<", right arrow, ">", forward slash, "/", backward slash, "\", exclamation point, "!", commercial at, "@", pound sign, "#", percent sign, "%", carat, "", ampersand, "&", asterisk, "*", hyphen, "-", dash, "-", "_", em dash, "--", plus sign, "+", equals sign, "=", question mark, "?", period, ", ", semicolon, ", ", colon, ":", comma, ", ", apostrophe, "'", single quote, "'", tilde, "~", badge, criterion, countercheck, countermark, countersign, counterfoil, duplicate, tally, label, ticket, billet, letter, counter, check, chip, chop, dib, totem, tessera, card, bill, witness, voucher, stamp, cacher, trade mark, Hall mark, signature, mark, autograph, autography, attestation, hand, hand writing, sign manual, cipher, seal, sigil, signet, hand and seal, paraph, brand, superscription, indorsement, endorsement, password, watchword, catchword, security card, pass, passkey, credentials, open sesame, timbrology, mot de passe, mot du guet, pass-parole, shibboleth, title, heading, docket, address card, visiting card, carte de visite, insignia, banner, banneret, bannerol, bandrol, flag, colors, streamer, standard, eagle, labarum, oriflamb, oriflamme, figurehead, ensign, pennon, pennant, pendant, burgee, blue Peter, jack, ancient, gonfalon, union jack, banderole, old glory, quarantine flag, vexillum, yellow-flag, yellow jack, tricolor, stars and stripes, bunting, heraldry, crest, coat of arms, arms, armorial bearings, hatchment, escutcheon, scutcheon, shield, supporters, livery, uniform, cockade, epaulet, chevron, garland, love knot, favor, beacon, cairn, post, staff, flagstaff, hand, pointer, vane, cock, weathercock, guidepost, handpost, fingerpost, directing post, signpost, pillars of Hercules, pharos, bale-fire, beacon-fire, l'etoile du Nord, landmark, seamark, lighthouse, balize, polestar, loadstar, lodestar, cynosure, guide, address, direction, name, sign, signboard, warning, omen, prefigurement, trace, record, warning &c, alarm, scepter, trophy, gauge, milestone, milepost, brand, fool's cap, check, telltale, test, mileage ticket, milliary, notification, advertisement, word of command, call, bugle call, trumpet call, bell, alarum, cry, battle cry, rallying cry, angelus, reveille, sacring bell, sanctus bell, exposition &c (explanation), proof, pattern, indicating, indicative, indicatory, denotative, connotative, diacritical, representative, typical, symbolic, pantomimic, pathognomonic, symptomatic, characteristic, demonstrative, diagnostic, exponential, emblematic, armorial, individual, known by, recognizable by, indicated, pointed, marked, denotable, indelible, in token of, symbolically, in dumb show, ecce signum, ex ungue leonem, ex pede Herculem, vide ut supra, vultus ariete fortior.

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