chip

Definition:
1. A small piece of wood, glass, etc. that has broken off an object.
2. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.
3. A triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line.
4. A piece of dried bovine dung.

Use 'chip' in a sentence:

• 1. He used a hammer and chisel to chip away at the wall.
• 2. He was burning wood chips to make charcoal.
• 3. That's why it may be up to consumers to move the needle on chip and PIN.
• 4. I always get mint chocolate chip.
• 5. They chip in for the petrol.
• 6. It is claimed that a refrigerator small enough to be built into a computer chip has been made.
• 7. They chipped away at the power of the government.
• 8. Micro-Mechanics plans to produce a chip that, because it uses only microscopic mechanical switches, will be invulnerable to radiation damage.
• 9. Timing is also a good bargaining chip.
• 10. When the chips are down, she's very tough.
• 11. You chip away at the problem until somebody comes up with the right answer.
• 12. Once the chip is in place, the pet does not feel it anymore.
• 13. Tomorrow's children will be even more in the thrall of the silicon chip.
• 14. Amin believes there is no corner of the world that can resist the charms of a Frito-Lay potato chip.
• 15. Today's silicon chip-based computers can't come close.
• 16. The stone chip was one of the first tools that people used, and perhaps it is the most important.
• 17. I'm not sure what I'll do when the chips are down.
• 18. The children demolished their burgers and chips.
• 19. I do not like the chip they serve here-they are too greasy.
• 20. The fossils had been chipped out of the rock.
• 21. Redskins kicker Chip Lohmiller missed two field-goal attempts.
• 22. They chip in for the petrol and food.
• 23. We ate chips every night, but hardly ever had fish.
• 24. This entire apparatus fits on a chip no larger than a few square millimeters.
• 25. The switches will, however, be slower than electronic switches and the chip will contain only 12,000 switches.
• 26. Once large issuers convert together, the chip costs should drop.
• 27. Rubio suggests that oil be used as a bargaining chip in any trade talks.
• 28. The English chip is much larger than French fries, and so it has a much different texture.
• 29. Use information as a bargaining chip too.
• 30. An earlier effort by Target to move to chip and PIN never gained progress.
• 31. Designing silicon chips to mimic human organs sounds fanciful.
• 32. Once they return to the hive, this materials can be detected, and a scan of the chip will reveal the appropriate location.
• 33. Data is said to lack an emotion chip.
• 34. Fish and chips are packed with protein.
• 35. Chips should be cut into uniform size and thickness.
• 36. This mug has a chip in it.
• 37. She ate a bag of chips.
• 38. Three portions of fish and chips, please.
• 39. I've never been a great one for fish and chips.
• 40. The paint had chipped off.
• 41. The cup had a small chip.
• 42. The new chip will be made from a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.
• 43. Chip and PIN is designed to combat credit card fraud.
• 44. Chip cards will be the money of the future.
• 45. These plates chip easily.
• 46. At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, research scientists have designed a 4-inch silicon chip that holds 700 tiny primitive motors.
• 47. She chipped one of her front teeth.
• 48. He chipped off a piece of his tooth.
• 49. The release of prisoners was used as a bargaining chip.
• 50. There were no potatoes so we had fish and chips sans the chips.
• 51. All main courses are served with chips or baked potato.
• 52. I went and bought about six dollars' worth of potato chips.
• 53. The information could be used as a bargaining chip to extract some parallel information from Britain.