Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
- 2transitive verb
To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
- 3transitive verb
To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.
- 4intransitive verb
To break or fly off in small pieces.
- 5noun
A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.
- 6noun
A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.
- 7noun
Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
- 8noun
Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.
- 9noun
One of the counters used in poker and other games.
- 10noun
The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
- 11noun
the act of chipping something
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- 12noun
(golf) a low running approach shot
- 13noun
electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
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- 14noun
a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling
- 15noun
a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
- 16noun
a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
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- 17noun
a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
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- 18noun
a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
"a bit of rock caught him in the eye"
- 19noun
a piece of dried bovine dung
- 20verb
cut a nick into
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- 21verb
break a small piece off from
"chip the glass"
"chip a tooth"
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- 22verb
break off (a piece from a whole)
"Her tooth chipped"
- 23verb
form by chipping
"They chipped their names in the stone"
- 24verb
play a chip shot
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