chip – English noun declension

English noun forms of chip

Noun: chip
Singularchip
Pluralchips

Sample Sentences

  • The floor of the sculptor's studio was strewn with chips of marble.
  • The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago. [1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 3:]
  • This cup has a chip in it.
  • If the second player does raise three chips, and all the other players drop, the player who opened may stay in by putting three more chips in the pot, for then he will have put in precisely as many chips as the second player. [2002, Albert H. Moorehead, Hoyle′s Rules of Games, page 46:]
  • AA chips showing duration of abstinence (6 months) [2023, Thomas Thurnell-Read, Mark Monaghan, Intoxication: Self, State and Society, page 135:]
  • 1986 September 1, Tom Moran, Lisa L. Spiegelman, New Chip Said to Contain Seven PC AT Chip Functions, InfoWorld, page 5,
  • But sources close to the company said the chip contains two direct memory access controllers, two interrupt controllers, a timer, a memory mapper from Texas Instruments, and a Motorola Inc. real-time clock.
  • 2002, Koji Ikuta, Atsushi Takahashi, Kota Ikeda, Shoji Maruo, User-Assembly Fully Integrated Micro Chemical Laboratory Using Biochemical IC Chips for Wearable/Implantable Applications, Yoshinobu Baba, Shuichi Shoji, Albert van den Berg (editors), Micro Total Analysis Systems 2002: Proceedings of the μTAS 2002 Symposium, Volume 1, page 38,
  • Fig. 4(a) shows a schematic design of the micropump chip.
  • Fig. 0.3 is an image of the front and back views of a drug delivery microchip made of silicon and painted with gold, with a U.S. dime (10 cents). The chip in the picture consists of 34 nano-sized wells each of which is capable of housing 24 nl (nano liters) of drug. It is possible to make at least 400 wells or even 1000 or more in these chips which are very inexpensive, costing less tham $20 [22, 23]. [2007, Elisabeth S. Papazoglou, Aravind Parthasarathy, Bionanotechnology, page 6:]
  • I always say the best way to judge an establishment is by its chips because if you can’t master that, what can you do? [2023 July 21, Billie Schwab Dunn, “I Tried Wetherspoons Food for the First Time-I Feared I'd Get Scurvy...”, in Daily Star:]
  • Do you want ketchup, mustard, or mayonnaise on your chips?
  • Fish and chips is a traditional British dish.
  • They made their own potato chips from scratch... He ate a tortilla chip with guac... served with a side of apple chips...
  • Oxlade-Chamberlain saw his attempted chip well blocked by goalkeeper Costanzo at the start of the second half. [2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:]
  • chocolate chip
  • One captain that I sailed with was not a chip better than the one we’re with now. [1858, R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *kippōną
3. Proto-West Germanic *kippōn
4. Old English *ċippiander.
5. Old English ċipp
6. Middle English chippe
7. English chip
8. Noun from Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ċipp (“chip; small piece of wood, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-West Germanic *kippōn (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Germanic *kippōną (“to chip, chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kip, keep (“notch; nick; score”), Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop.
9. The formally similar Old English ċipp, ċypp, ċyp (“a beam; log; stock; post”), from Proto-Germanic *kippaz (“log; beam”) (whence Old Saxon kip (“post”), Old High German kipfa, chipfa (“axle, stave”), Old Norse keppr (“cudgel, club”)) is a different, unrelated word either borrowed from Latin cippus (“stake; pale; post”) or borrowed from the same source language as the Latin.
10. Verb from Middle English chippen, from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) – see above. See: Old English Nouns '*ċippian', Old English Nouns 'forċippian', Dutch Nouns 'kip', Old English Nouns '*ċippian', Old English Nouns 'forċippian'.

Verbs referencing "chip"

Danish Nouns chip, Dutch Nouns chip, Italian Nouns zeppa, Danish Nouns chips, German Nouns Chip, French Nouns chiffon, Finnish Nouns chippi, Romanian Nouns cip, Russian Nouns чип, Ukrainian Nouns чип, Hungarian Nouns csip, Catalan Nouns xip.