Meaning of chip In English

• 0 a long, thin piece of potato that is fried and usually eaten hot:

  • fish and chips

  • beans/egg/sausage and chips

  • oven chips (= chips that are baked in an oven rather than fried)

  • a bag of chips

  • tortilla chips and salsa

  • banana chips

• 1 a very small piece of semiconductor, especially in a computer, that contains extremely small electronic circuits and devices, and can perform particular operations:

  • a silicon chip

• 2 a small piece that has been broken off a larger object, or the mark left on an object such as a cup, plate, etc. where a small piece has been broken off it:

  • wood chips

  • Polly fell and knocked a chip out of her front tooth.

  • This mug's got a chip in it/out of it.

• 3 a small plastic disc used to represent a particular amount of money in gambling:

  • figurative The hostages are being held as a bargaining chip by terrorist organizations.

• 4 a kick in football or a hit in golf, in which the ball goes high into the air for a short time:

  • His splendid chip from the 18 yard line caught the goalkeeper off his line.

• 5 to break a small piece off something by accident:

  • I wish my nail polish wouldn't keep chipping.

  • He's chipped a bone in his wrist.

• 6 to kick a football or hit a golf ball high into the air for a short distance:

  • Berbatov managed to sidestep a tackle and chip the keeper.

• 7 a small piece of something or a piece that has broken off a larger object:

  • chocolate chips

  • wood chips

  • Chips of paint from the peeling ceiling littered the floor.

• 8 a very small piece of silicon used in a computer and containing electronic systems and devices that can perform particular operations

• 9 a small, flat piece of fried food, esp. a potato chip or tortilla chip:

  • a bag of corn chips

• 10 a very small piece of electronic equipment that is used in computers and other electronic equipment for performing many tasks:

  • The company's chips are designed to deliver low power consumption and high performance, and are intended for mobile devices.

  • Today you can put over a hundred million transistors on a tiny little computer chip.

  • As prices for memory chips fell in recent months, the computer maker slashed prices on its products.