chip

chip is a 4-letter English word with 24 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
2. transitive verb. To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
3. transitive verb. To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.
4. intransitive verb. To break or fly off in small pieces.
5. noun. A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.
6. noun. A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.
7. noun. Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
8. noun. Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.
9. noun. One of the counters used in poker and other games.
10. noun. The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
11. noun. the act of chipping something

    Synonyms: chipping, splintering

12. noun. (golf) a low running approach shot
13. noun. electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit

    Synonyms: microchip

14. noun. a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling
15. noun. a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
16. noun. a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something

    Synonyms: check

17. noun. a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

    Synonyms: crisp

18. noun. a small fragment of something broken off from the whole

    "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"

    Synonyms: bit, flake, fleck, scrap

19. noun. a piece of dried bovine dung
20. verb. cut a nick into

    Synonyms: nick

21. verb. break a small piece off from

    "chip the glass"

    "chip a tooth"

    Synonyms: knap

22. verb. break off (a piece from a whole)

    "Her tooth chipped"

23. verb. form by chipping

    "They chipped their names in the stone"

24. verb. play a chip shot

Synonyms

chipping, splintering, microchip, check, crisp, bit, flake, fleck, scrap, nick, knap

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in chip:

pich

Common word forms

chips, chipped, chipper, chipping

Words from these letters

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