chip

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Related topics: Food, dish, Gambling, Sport, Computers

chip1 /tʃɪp/ S2 W3 noun [countableC]

1 food 食物 [usually plural]

a) British EnglishBrEDFF a long thin piece of potato cooked in oil 炸马铃薯[土豆]条 SYN American English French fry

fish and chips

炸鱼和炸薯条

a bag of chips

一袋炸薯条

b) American EnglishAmEDFF a thin flat round piece of food such as potato cooked in very hot oil and eaten cold 炸薯[土豆]片 SYN British English crisp

a bag of potato chips

一袋炸薯片

2 computer 计算机 a small piece of silicon that has a set of complicated electrical connections on it and is used to store and process information in computers 微型集成电路片，芯片，晶片

the age of the silicon chip

芯片时代

chip technology

芯片技术

3 piece 片,块PIECE a small piece of wood, stone, metal etc that has been broken off something 〔木、石、金属等的〕碎片，碎屑

Wood chips covered the floor of the workshop.

工场的地板上满是木屑。

a chocolate chip cookie (=one that contains small pieces of chocolate)

碎粒巧克力饼干

4 mark 痕迹MARK a small hole or mark on a plate, cup etc where a piece has broken off 〔物品碰损后留下的〕豁口，缺口

chip in

There’s a chip in this bowl.

这只碗有个缺口。

5. have a chip on your shoulder UNFAIRto easily become offended or angry because you think you have been treated unfairly in the past 〔因受过委屈而〕好争吵，好生气；记恨

Examples from the Corpus

have a chip on your shoulder• In some cases folks are just mad and have a chip on their shoulder.• The Doyle kid has had a chip on his shoulder ever since his mom and dad divorced.

6 when the chips are down spokenSERIOUS SITUATION in a serious or difficult situation, especially one in which you realize what is really true or important 在重要关头，在紧急时刻

When the chips are down, you’ve only got yourself to depend on.

到了紧急关头就只有靠自己了。

Examples from the Corpus

when the chips are down• When the chips were down, you felt he could handle the situation.• As you know, when the chips are down Leslie Bence comes out fighting.• It is disappointing to find that, when the chips are down, your paper is no better than the rest.• The implication, they fear, is that when the chips are down it is only rational human beings that really matter.

7. be a chip off the old block informalLIKE/SIMILAR to be very similar to your mother or father in appearance or character 〔外貌或性格〕酷似父亲[母亲]

Examples from the Corpus

be a chip off the old block• "That daughter of yours has a great sense of humour." "Yes, I like to think she's a chip off the old block!"

8. game 游戏 [usually plural]DGG a small flat coloured piece of plastic used in games such as poker or blackjack to represent a particular amount of money 〔用于赌钱的〕筹码

9. sport 体育运动 (also chip shot, chip kick)DS a hit in golf, or a kick in football or rugby, that makes the ball go high into the air for a short distance 〔高尔夫球的〕短切；〔足球或橄榄球的〕高球

10. have had your chips British EnglishBrE informalSERIOUS SITUATION to be in a situation in which you no longer have any hope of improvement 失势；完蛋

Examples from the Corpus

have had your chips• Is not this subject wholly appropriate for the Minister, because his Government have had their chips?

→ blue-chip, → cash in your chips at cash in

Examples from the Corpus

chip• chips and guacamole dip• Chips of plaster littered the floor of the lobby.• fish and chips• A large number of young men reported eating white bread, chips, meat pies and sweets regularly.• Her blue eyes narrowed to marble chips.• Ed instructed us how to approach our chips.• Inmos Transputers are unique because they combine a processor, communications links and memory on a single chip.• The process uses small chips of carbon to adsorb the gold dissolved in solution.• The company expects the early versions of the chip will go into low-end desktop computers primarily sold outside the United States.• Guiltless Gourmet Baked Not Fried tortilla chips.• After the decorators had left there were chips of plaster all over the lobby.• Wood chips covered the floor in the carpenter's workshop.

fish and chips• The first-term legislator, owner of a fish and chips shop, was elected with no particular platform.• There was always fish and chips.• That's the best fish and chips I've ever had.• But fish and chips are, I would suggest, virtually impossible to sling.• We will send out for fish and chips.• The money from the kettle would buy him fish and chips, popcorn and a seat at the pictures.• They all trooped in, eating their fish and chips, and clustered around the bed.

silicon chip• Complexity poured into the artificial medium of machines and silicon chips will only be in further flux.• Today computer networks and intricate silicon chips are grown too.• With modern technology many thousands of bistables can be formed on one silicon chip.• But nuclear power brought nuclear warheads, plastics brought pollution, and the silicon chip promises unemployment for some people.

chip in• Oh, the plate has a chip in it.• We all chipped in to pay for the food and wine.• Electronics firm Compol chipped in with over $20,000.• When Mona retired, all her co-workers chipped in and bought her a lovely dinner service.

Related topics: Sport, Cooking

chip2 verb (chipped, chipping)

1 accidentally break (STH) 不小心打碎（某物） [intransitiveI, transitiveT]BREAK if you chip something, or if it chips, a small piece of it breaks off accidentally 打破，弄缺

Gary fell and chipped one of his front teeth.

加里摔了一跤，磕掉一颗门牙。

He chipped a bone in his knee and was carried off the pitch.

他撞碎了膝盖骨，被抬出了场外。

These plates chip really easily.

这些盘子很容易磕破。

chip off

The paint had chipped off the gate.

门上的油漆剥落了。

→5 see picture at 见图 damage2

2 remove STH 移去某物 [intransitiveI, transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] to remove something, especially something hard that is covering a surface, by hitting it with a tool so that small pieces break off 铲掉，凿下

Archaeologists were carefully chipping away at the rock.

考古学家正小心地在岩石上铲凿。

Chip out the plaster with a steel chisel.

用钢凿子铲掉那些灰泥。

3 sport 体育运动 [transitiveT]DS to hit a golf ball or kick a football or a rugby ball so that it goes high into the air for a short distance 〔高尔夫球〕短切〔球〕；〔足球或橄榄球〕踢〔高球〕

United scored just before half-time when Adcock cleverly chipped the ball over the keeper.

就在上半场即将结束前，阿德科克巧妙地把球挑过守门员，为联队得了一分。

4. potatoes 马铃薯 [transitiveT] British EnglishBrEDFC to cut potatoes into thin pieces ready to be cooked in hot oil 把〔马铃薯〕切成小片[条]

n5. microchip [transitiveT] British EnglishBrE to put a microchip in an animal, person, or thing to identify or give information about them

6 chip away at something phrasal verbphr v EFFECTIVEto gradually make something less effective or destroy it 〔逐步〕削弱；〔不断〕损害

Writers such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society.

像伏尔泰和狄德罗这样的作家在一点一滴地动摇社会的根基。

Fears about the future chipped away at her sense of well-being.

对未来的担忧慢慢地淡化了她的幸福感。

Examples from the Corpus

chip away at • From the breakers beyond, nightmare thoughts chipped away at her security.• The dismantling began on the night of November 9 as hundreds of Berliners chipped away at some of the more decorative chunks.• Oystercatchers may wedge the shells into a crevice and chip away at the lip.• The best rewriting method in this case is the simplest: by correcting one problem you chip away at the others.• Meanwhile, his defense lawyers chipped away at the prosecution's arguments.• In like manner, but without the risk, Bloomsbury chipped away at the standards inherited from Victorians.• In therapy, we chip away at this, bit by bit.• For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie, slowly nagging it into submission.

7 chip in phrasal verbphr v

a) INTERRUPTto interrupt a conversation by saying something that adds more detail 插嘴，插话

with

Other committee members chipped in with suggestions.

委员会的其他成员插话提出建议。

‘It won’t be easy, ’ Jeff chipped in.

“这并不容易。”杰夫插进来说。

I’d just like to chip in, Bill, if I might.

比尔，如果可以的话我想插一句。

b) GIVEif each person in a group chips in, they each give a small amount of money so that they can buy something together 共同出钱，凑钱

We all chipped in to buy Amy a graduation present.

我们一起凑份子给埃米买一件毕业礼物。

chip in (with) something

Fifty-two people in the music industry each chipped in $250 apiece.

音乐界有52人每人凑了250美元。

Examples from the Corpus

chip with• Opener David Smith led the run chase with 82 and was given crucial support by Martin Speight who chipped in with 38.• Enthusiasts from the Tees Tornados bike club have also chipped in with a £100 donation.• Local detention is considerably cheaper, although the state might still chip in with a subsidy.• Neil Fairbrother chipped in with an unbeaten 61 as Lancashire cruised to maximum batting points.• Health ministers must be honest and responsible enough to confront problems and chip in with extra funds where ministers.• Clinton is pushing Congress to chip in with federal funds.• The other dealers chipped in with suggestions.• Richard Illingworth chipped in with the next wicket - Stephenson trapped leg before sweeping.

chip in (with) something• Last week the defence minister, Sabahattin Cakmakog, chipped in.• The clocks click like chips in a casino, piled to a wobbly tower.• The knife-blade was dull; it cut only because it was chipped in enough places for it to be saw-toothed, jagged.• They should all chip in like smart businessmen and pay the fiddler.• Intel controls about three-fourths of the market for the main chips in personal computers.• Man, the thing worked, had a nice kick; it sent bits of chimney chipping in sharp spinning chunks.• In December he agreed that he would chip in the same amount.• Richard Illingworth chipped in with the next wicket - Stephenson trapped leg before sweeping.

Examples from the Corpus

chip• They bring a back over some times to chip a guy.• The ball hit him in the face and chipped a tooth.• He fell off his bike and chipped his front tooth.• He could chip his golf ball with precision and was an astute reader of tricky greens, especially on long putts.• In December he agreed that he would chip in the same amount.• Parents, pupils and staff all chipped in to help collect the cash for a new bus for Eastbourne school.• Last week the defence minister, Sabahattin Cakmakog, chipped in.• He chipped on calmly and got his par-4.• If you don't load the dishwasher right, it might chip some of the cups.• She tried to chip the ice off the windshield.

chip off• When he dropped the skillet on the counter, a small piece chipped off the tile.

From Longman Business Dictionary

chipchip /tʃɪp/ noun

1 (also silicon chip) [countableC]COMPUTING a small electronic device, used in a computer to store information, organize the computer’s operating system, run programs etcSYN MICROCHIP

Each chip can hold 100 times the information contained on a standard magnetic-stripe card.

2FINANCE informal a share in a company

Brokers will start bidding for chips in the company as soon as the London market opens.

→ blue chip → red chip → see also bargaining chip

Origin chip1

Old English cipp, cyp “small piece of wood”, from Latin cippus “sharp post”

词汇	chip
释义	chip Word family nounchipperchippiechippingchipschipboardchipsetchip shopadjectivechippyverbchip Related topics: Food, dish, Gambling, Sport, Computers chip1 /tʃɪp/ ●●● S2 W3 noun [countableC] 1 food 食物 [usually plural] a) British EnglishBrEDFF a long thin piece of potato cooked in oil 炸马铃薯[土豆]条 SYN American English French fry fish and chips 炸鱼和炸薯条 a bag of chips 一袋炸薯条 b) American EnglishAmEDFF a thin flat round piece of food such as potato cooked in very hot oil and eaten cold 炸薯[土豆]片 SYN British English crisp a bag of potato chips 一袋炸薯片 2 computer 计算机 a small piece of silicon that has a set of complicated electrical connections on it and is used to store and process information in computers 微型集成电路片，芯片，晶片 the age of the silicon chip 芯片时代 chip technology 芯片技术 3 piece 片,块PIECE a small piece of wood, stone, metal etc that has been broken off something 〔木、石、金属等的〕碎片，碎屑 Wood chips covered the floor of the workshop. 工场的地板上满是木屑。 a chocolate chip cookie (=one that contains small pieces of chocolate) 碎粒巧克力饼干 4 mark 痕迹MARK a small hole or mark on a plate, cup etc where a piece has broken off 〔物品碰损后留下的〕豁口，缺口 chip in There’s a chip in this bowl. 这只碗有个缺口。 5. have a chip on your shoulder UNFAIRto easily become offended or angry because you think you have been treated unfairly in the past 〔因受过委屈而〕好争吵，好生气；记恨 Examples from the Corpus have a chip on your shoulder• In some cases folks are just mad and have a chip on their shoulder.• The Doyle kid has had a chip on his shoulder ever since his mom and dad divorced. 6 when the chips are down spokenSERIOUS SITUATION in a serious or difficult situation, especially one in which you realize what is really true or important 在重要关头，在紧急时刻 When the chips are down, you’ve only got yourself to depend on. 到了紧急关头就只有靠自己了。 Examples from the Corpus when the chips are down• When the chips were down, you felt he could handle the situation.• As you know, when the chips are down Leslie Bence comes out fighting.• It is disappointing to find that, when the chips are down, your paper is no better than the rest.• The implication, they fear, is that when the chips are down it is only rational human beings that really matter. 7. be a chip off the old block informalLIKE/SIMILAR to be very similar to your mother or father in appearance or character 〔外貌或性格〕酷似父亲[母亲] Examples from the Corpus be a chip off the old block• "That daughter of yours has a great sense of humour." "Yes, I like to think she's a chip off the old block!" 8. game 游戏 [usually plural]DGG a small flat coloured piece of plastic used in games such as poker or blackjack to represent a particular amount of money 〔用于赌钱的〕筹码 9. sport 体育运动 (also chip shot, chip kick)DS a hit in golf, or a kick in football or rugby, that makes the ball go high into the air for a short distance 〔高尔夫球的〕短切；〔足球或橄榄球的〕高球 10. have had your chips British EnglishBrE informalSERIOUS SITUATION to be in a situation in which you no longer have any hope of improvement 失势；完蛋 Examples from the Corpus have had your chips• Is not this subject wholly appropriate for the Minister, because his Government have had their chips? → blue-chip, → cash in your chips at cash in Examples from the Corpus chip• chips and guacamole dip• Chips of plaster littered the floor of the lobby.• fish and chips• A large number of young men reported eating white bread, chips, meat pies and sweets regularly.• Her blue eyes narrowed to marble chips.• Ed instructed us how to approach our chips.• Inmos Transputers are unique because they combine a processor, communications links and memory on a single chip.• The process uses small chips of carbon to adsorb the gold dissolved in solution.• The company expects the early versions of the chip will go into low-end desktop computers primarily sold outside the United States.• Guiltless Gourmet Baked Not Fried tortilla chips.• After the decorators had left there were chips of plaster all over the lobby.• Wood chips covered the floor in the carpenter's workshop. fish and chips• The first-term legislator, owner of a fish and chips shop, was elected with no particular platform.• There was always fish and chips.• That's the best fish and chips I've ever had.• But fish and chips are, I would suggest, virtually impossible to sling.• We will send out for fish and chips.• The money from the kettle would buy him fish and chips, popcorn and a seat at the pictures.• They all trooped in, eating their fish and chips, and clustered around the bed. silicon chip• Complexity poured into the artificial medium of machines and silicon chips will only be in further flux.• Today computer networks and intricate silicon chips are grown too.• With modern technology many thousands of bistables can be formed on one silicon chip.• But nuclear power brought nuclear warheads, plastics brought pollution, and the silicon chip promises unemployment for some people. chip in• Oh, the plate has a chip in it.• We all chipped in to pay for the food and wine.• Electronics firm Compol chipped in with over $20,000.• When Mona retired, all her co-workers chipped in and bought her a lovely dinner service. Related topics: Sport, Cooking chip2 ●○○ verb (chipped, chipping) 1 accidentally break (STH) 不小心打碎（某物） [intransitiveI, transitiveT]BREAK if you chip something, or if it chips, a small piece of it breaks off accidentally 打破，弄缺 Gary fell and chipped one of his front teeth. 加里摔了一跤，磕掉一颗门牙。 He chipped a bone in his knee and was carried off the pitch. 他撞碎了膝盖骨，被抬出了场外。 These plates chip really easily. 这些盘子很容易磕破。 chip off The paint had chipped off the gate. 门上的油漆剥落了。 →5 see picture at 见图 damage2 2 remove STH 移去某物 [intransitiveI, transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] to remove something, especially something hard that is covering a surface, by hitting it with a tool so that small pieces break off 铲掉，凿下 Archaeologists were carefully chipping away at the rock. 考古学家正小心地在岩石上铲凿。 Chip out the plaster with a steel chisel. 用钢凿子铲掉那些灰泥。 3 sport 体育运动 [transitiveT]DS to hit a golf ball or kick a football or a rugby ball so that it goes high into the air for a short distance 〔高尔夫球〕短切〔球〕；〔足球或橄榄球〕踢〔高球〕 United scored just before half-time when Adcock cleverly chipped the ball over the keeper. 就在上半场即将结束前，阿德科克巧妙地把球挑过守门员，为联队得了一分。 4. potatoes 马铃薯 [transitiveT] British EnglishBrEDFC to cut potatoes into thin pieces ready to be cooked in hot oil 把〔马铃薯〕切成小片[条] n5. microchip [transitiveT] British EnglishBrE to put a microchip in an animal, person, or thing to identify or give information about them 6 chip away at something phrasal verbphr v EFFECTIVEto gradually make something less effective or destroy it 〔逐步〕削弱；〔不断〕损害 Writers such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society. 像伏尔泰和狄德罗这样的作家在一点一滴地动摇社会的根基。 Fears about the future chipped away at her sense of well-being. 对未来的担忧慢慢地淡化了她的幸福感。 Examples from the Corpus chip away at • From the breakers beyond, nightmare thoughts chipped away at her security.• The dismantling began on the night of November 9 as hundreds of Berliners chipped away at some of the more decorative chunks.• Oystercatchers may wedge the shells into a crevice and chip away at the lip.• The best rewriting method in this case is the simplest: by correcting one problem you chip away at the others.• Meanwhile, his defense lawyers chipped away at the prosecution's arguments.• In like manner, but without the risk, Bloomsbury chipped away at the standards inherited from Victorians.• In therapy, we chip away at this, bit by bit.• For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie, slowly nagging it into submission. 7 chip in phrasal verbphr v a) INTERRUPTto interrupt a conversation by saying something that adds more detail 插嘴，插话 with Other committee members chipped in with suggestions. 委员会的其他成员插话提出建议。 ‘It won’t be easy, ’ Jeff chipped in. “这并不容易。”杰夫插进来说。 I’d just like to chip in, Bill, if I might. 比尔，如果可以的话我想插一句。 b) GIVEif each person in a group chips in, they each give a small amount of money so that they can buy something together 共同出钱，凑钱 We all chipped in to buy Amy a graduation present. 我们一起凑份子给埃米买一件毕业礼物。 chip in (with) something Fifty-two people in the music industry each chipped in $250 apiece. 音乐界有52人每人凑了250美元。 Examples from the Corpus chip with• Opener David Smith led the run chase with 82 and was given crucial support by Martin Speight who chipped in with 38.• Enthusiasts from the Tees Tornados bike club have also chipped in with a £100 donation.• Local detention is considerably cheaper, although the state might still chip in with a subsidy.• Neil Fairbrother chipped in with an unbeaten 61 as Lancashire cruised to maximum batting points.• Health ministers must be honest and responsible enough to confront problems and chip in with extra funds where ministers.• Clinton is pushing Congress to chip in with federal funds.• The other dealers chipped in with suggestions.• Richard Illingworth chipped in with the next wicket - Stephenson trapped leg before sweeping. chip in (with) something• Last week the defence minister, Sabahattin Cakmakog, chipped in.• The clocks click like chips in a casino, piled to a wobbly tower.• The knife-blade was dull; it cut only because it was chipped in enough places for it to be saw-toothed, jagged.• They should all chip in like smart businessmen and pay the fiddler.• Intel controls about three-fourths of the market for the main chips in personal computers.• Man, the thing worked, had a nice kick; it sent bits of chimney chipping in sharp spinning chunks.• In December he agreed that he would chip in the same amount.• Richard Illingworth chipped in with the next wicket - Stephenson trapped leg before sweeping. Examples from the Corpus chip• They bring a back over some times to chip a guy.• The ball hit him in the face and chipped a tooth.• He fell off his bike and chipped his front tooth.• He could chip his golf ball with precision and was an astute reader of tricky greens, especially on long putts.• In December he agreed that he would chip in the same amount.• Parents, pupils and staff all chipped in to help collect the cash for a new bus for Eastbourne school.• Last week the defence minister, Sabahattin Cakmakog, chipped in.• He chipped on calmly and got his par-4.• If you don't load the dishwasher right, it might chip some of the cups.• She tried to chip the ice off the windshield. chip off• When he dropped the skillet on the counter, a small piece chipped off the tile. From Longman Business Dictionary chipchip /tʃɪp/ noun 1 (also silicon chip) [countableC]COMPUTING a small electronic device, used in a computer to store information, organize the computer’s operating system, run programs etcSYN MICROCHIP Each chip can hold 100 times the information contained on a standard magnetic-stripe card. 2FINANCE informal a share in a company Brokers will start bidding for chips in the company as soon as the London market opens. → blue chip → red chip → see also bargaining chip Origin chip1 Old English cipp, cyp “small piece of wood”, from Latin cippus “sharp post”
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