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CHIPS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Strips of potato fried in deep fat
Synonyms:
chips; french-fried potatoes; french fries; fries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("chips" is a kind of...):
Irish potato; murphy; potato; spud; tater; white potato (an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland)
Domain region:
Britain (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb chip
Context examples:
"There are no chips on the table," Sitka Charley explained.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
From under clefts among the rocks I gathered a few dry sticks and chips.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“We were able to demonstrate a high-quality entanglement link across two chips in the lab, where photons on either chip share a single quantum state,” research co-author Dan Llewellyn said.
(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Summarizes probe sets using the model described in Li and Wong (2001) to a probe set with I chips and J probes.
(Bioconductor caAffy Li Wong Probe Summary Method, NCI Thesaurus)
The bees actually moved wood chips to access his mushroom’s mycelium, the branching fibers of fungus that look like cobwebs.
(Mushroom Extract Could Help Save Bees from Virus, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Trans fatty acids, or trans fats, are commonly found in fried foods, chips, crackers and baked goods.
(Trans Fat Bans Lessen Health Risks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He saw cowboys at the bar, drinking fierce whiskey, the air filled with obscenity and ribald language, and he saw himself with them drinking and cursing with the wildest, or sitting at table with them, under smoking kerosene lamps, while the chips clicked and clattered and the cards were dealt around.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The glamour of inexperience is over your eyes, he answered; and you see it through a charmed medium: you cannot discern that the gilding is slime and the silk draperies cobwebs; that the marble is sordid slate, and the polished woods mere refuse chips and scaly bark.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Cosmetic dental procedures include: • Bleaching to make teeth whiter • Repairing chips or rough spots with fillings that match your teeth • Filling cavities with tooth-colored materials • Reshaping teeth that don't match the others • Closing gaps between teeth • Covering broken teeth with porcelain crowns
(Cosmetic Dentistry, NIH)
Ham carrying me on his back and a small box of ours under his arm, and Peggotty carrying another small box of ours, we turned down lanes bestrewn with bits of chips and little hillocks of sand, and went past gas-works, rope-walks, boat-builders' yards, shipwrights' yards, ship-breakers' yards, caulkers' yards, riggers' lofts, smiths' forges, and a great litter of such places, until we came out upon the dull waste I had already seen at a distance; when Ham said, Yon's our house, Mas'r Davy!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
