Tra từ chip - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

chip [chip chips chipped chipping] noun, verb BrE [tʃɪp] NAmE [tʃɪp]
noun

1. the place from which a small piece of wood, glass, etc. has broken from an object
• This mug has a chip in it.
2. a small piece of wood, glass, etc. that has broken or been broken off an object
•chips of wood
•chocolate chip cookies (= biscuits containing small pieces of chocolate)
3. (BrE) (also ˌFrench ˈfry, fry NAmE, BrE)usually plural a long thin piece of potato fried in oil or fat
• All main courses are served with chips or baked potato.
see also ↑fish and chips
4. (also poˈtato chip) (both NAmE) (BrE crisp, poˌtato ˈcrisp)a thin round slice of potato that is fried until hard then dried and eaten cold. Chips are sold in bags and have many different flavours.
5. = ↑tortilla chip
6. = ↑microchip
•chip technology
see also ↑V-chip
7. a small flat piece of plastic used to represent a particular amount of money in some types of gambling: (figurative) The release of prisoners was used as a bargaining chip.
8. (also ˈchip shot) (in ↑golf, football ( ↑soccer ), etc.)an act of hitting or kicking a ball high in the air so that it lands within a short distance
•She left herself with a short chip to the green.
see also ↑blue-chip
more at cash in your chips at ↑cash _v.

Word Origin:
Middle English: related to Old English forcippian ‘cut off’.

Example Bank:
•Advances in technology have made it possible to pack even more circuits on a chip.
•All he'll eat is chips.
•An electronic chip could be implanted in his brain.
•I never cook anything grand— we live on chips and baked beans.
•The computer has an integrated graphics chip running at 333 MHz.
•This computer uses the DX chip.
•This notebook uses a chip designed for mobile computing.
•a Pentium-compatible chip set
•a chip containing the coding devices
•fish and chips
•She had a slight chip off her front tooth.
•The gutted raw fish are smoked slowly over wood chips.
Idioms: ↑chip off the old block ▪ ↑have a chip on your shoulder ▪ ↑have had your chips ▪ ↑when the chips are down
Derived: ↑chip away at something ▪ ↑chip in ▪ ↑chip off ▪ ↑chip something off

verb

(-pp-)
1. transitive, intransitive ~ (sth) to damage sth by breaking a small piece off it; to become damaged in this way
•a badly chipped saucer
•She chipped one of her front teeth.
•These plates chip easily.
2. transitive ~ sth + adv./prep. to cut or break small pieces off sth with a tool
•Chip away the damaged area.
•The fossils had been chipped out of the rock.
•It took a long time to chip a hole in the wall.
•It needs skill to chip a block of stone into a recognizable shape.
3. transitive, intransitive ~ (sth) (especially in ↑golf and football ( ↑soccer ))to hit or kick the ball so that it goes high in the air and then lands within a short distance
4. transitive ~ potatoes (BrE)to cut potatoes into long thin pieces and fry them in deep oil
5. transitive ~ sth to put a ↑microchip under the skin of a dog or other animal so that it can be identified if it is lost or stolen
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English: related to Old English forcippian ‘cut off’.

Example Bank:
•She fell and chipped her tooth badly.
•They chipped away at the power of the government.
•We chipped the paint off the wood.

See also: ↑French fry ▪ ↑chip in something ▪ ↑chip shot ▪ ↑crisp ▪ ↑fry ▪ ↑potato crisp