chip
chip is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 9 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
- 2.To bet, as with chips in the game of poker. To chip in, to contribute, as to a fund; to share in the risks or expenses of. [Slang. U. S.]
- 3.To break or fly off in small pieces.
- 4.A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.
- 5.A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.
- 6.Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
- 7.Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.
- 8.One of the counters used in poker and other games.
- 9.(Naut.) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line. Buffalo chips. See under Buffalo. -- Chip ax, a small ax for chipping timber into shape. -- Chip bonnet, Chip hat, a bonnet or a hat made of Chip. See Chip, n., 3. -- A chip off the old block, a child who resembles either of his parents. [Colloq.] Milton.- Potato chips, Saratoga chips, thin slices of raw potato fried crisp.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acrospire
- bantling
- block
- branch
- breed
- brood
- child
- daughter
- descendant
- descent
- fall
- family
- far
- farrow
- father
- filial
- filiation
- from
- fruit
- generation
- great-grandchild
- heir
- heiress
- heredity
- issue
- like
- line
- lineage
- litter
- man
- off
- offspring
- old
- plumule
- posterity
- presumptive
- primogeniture
- progeny
- ramification
- rising
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is chip.
- What is to break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery called?
- What is to bet, as with chips in the game of poker. To chip in, to contribute, as to a fund; to share in the risks or expenses of. [Slang. U. S.] called?
- What is a piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument called?
- What is a fragment or piece broken off; a small piece called?
- What is wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets called?
- What is anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously called?
- What is one of the counters used in poker and other games called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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