How do you use the word "chip" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "chip" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "chip": Bob's really a chip off the old block. John Tel is expected to delay the release of its chip set until August.

Chip

/t͡ʃɪp/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.

nounA damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.

Sentence Examples

Bob's really a chip off the old block.

John Tel is expected to delay the release of its chip set until August.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

scrap flake

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

I bit into the cookie and cracked a ____ of my tooth.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

I accidentally managed to ____ the edge of my favorite coffee mug.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kippōną Proto-West Germanic *kippōn Old English *ċippiander. Old English ċipp Middle English chippe English chip 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. 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. Verb from Middle English chippen, from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) – see above.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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:

"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:

"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:

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