(v. t.) To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
(v. t.) To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
(v. t.) To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.
(v. i.) To break or fly off in small pieces.
(n.) A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.
(n.) A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.
(n.) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
(n.) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.
(n.) One of the counters used in poker and other games.
(n.) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous work has shown that corticocancellous bone chips placed in a titanium chamber with an arteriovenous vascular pedicle will result in a pre-formed vascularized bone graft.
(2) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(3) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
(4) Not just this trip, there's the constant, negative criticism over the years chipping away.
(5) We are prepared to be honest with people and say that we will all need to chip in a little more.” The party’s health spokesman, Norman Lamb, said: “The NHS was once the envy of the world and this pledge is the first step in restoring it to where it should be.
(6) Lovely chip behind the defense on Green's goal, and almost sprung the defense with a clever free kick to play in Dempsey with time running out.
(7) At the other end the first meaningful touch from Castillo sees him attempt an ambitious chip to finish a rare US break.
(8) Critics of Rouhani’s policy of rapprochement with the international community inside Iran can turn to the supreme leader and say there wasn’t really much need for that softer tone because now we have more bargaining chips in our hands.
(9) Eamonn Forde of the music business website Music Ally says: "I think the change would just be chipping at the edges at first, but then you see things like a new generation of artists who are just huge on YouTube, who don't make the charts because they don't see themselves as having to put out singles, they make their money online.
(10) The second, the normal tubercle for insertion of the transverse ligament of the atlas, may look like a separate ossicle or a chip fracture.
(11) Cameron put all of his betting chips on what seemed to be the party's trump card: the "vote for us, we're tough on migration and tough on migrants" strategy.
(12) Ninety-two patients with tendon rupture or chip fracture were treated by splinting, and 42 percent of them had a decreased range of motion, mostly of a minor degree, but only 18 percent stated complaints at the follow-up examination.
(13) "I set out to create chips that used low-energy technology and that has allowed me to develop devices that can do all their data crunching on site.
(14) This included estimation of the furthest distance that the cooling fluid, using coloured water, and the bone chips of a dry petrous temporal bone can be thrown, and the spread of the fine dust produced by the drilling using a staph.
(15) However, in December, a concert was staged in Chipping Norton to settle the debt.
(16) The treatment consisted of bolting the capitular epiphysis (head) of the femur with a homologous bone chip.
(17) Steps for using a plastic chip to identify a removable prosthesis are described.
(18) Simon chips in: "I'm a single parent with a daughter, and the only things I can get are temporary contracts".
(19) Now Alex Salmond, the SNP’s once and future king has been enjoying fish, chips and pink champagne with the editor of the New Statesman, Jason Cowley .
(20) The pharmacokinetics of CHIP was determined following intraperitoneal (i.p.)
Chipper
Definition:
(v. i.) To chirp or chirrup.
(a.) Lively; cheerful; talkative.
Example Sentences:
(1) The transition from the Chipper Jones era to the Upton era is going less than smoothly – Justin, who still has a ways to go to reach his full capabilities, looks like Babe Ruth compared to BJ, who is hitting .179.
(2) Chippers did not seem to be compensating; their cotinine values equaled those expected when regular smokers were not compensating for reduced cigarette availability.
(3) This study explores the behavior of tobacco "chippers"--very light smokers who regularly use tobacco without developing dependence.
(4) Chippers' blood nicotine levels increased significantly, in amounts equaling those of dependent smokers.
(5) Out of the 15 chippers examined, 5 presented vibration-induced white finger syndrome.
(6) Blood samples were obtained before and after 10 chippers (smoking up to 5 cigarettes per day) and 12 dependent smokers (20 to 40 cigarettes per day) smoked a cigarette.
(7) But I am a little taken aback by how chipper he is.
(8) In contrast to the deprivation and destitution that can result from sanctioning, the fictional Zac and Sarah, with their beatific expressions beaming out from leaflets, are eerily chipper.
(9) chippers 17 July 2013 9:26am This comment has been chosen by Guardian staff because it contributes to the debate As a teacher (and a parent) I find this incredibly depressing.
(10) However, the digital artery flow rates of the severe VWF group increased substantially (to about three times the resting level) after the chipping episode, whereas the flow rates of the novices and the non-VWF chippers did not change appreciably.
(11) Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire showed us chipper orphans in a development porn-esque version of India; much of the media westerners encounter of the global south is produced by white people, for white eyes, featuring white voices .
(12) Despite higher air lead concentrations, sanders' blood lead levels were not elevated compared with chippers and were only slightly elevated compared with non-lead workers.
(13) An associate at the meeting described him as seeming "quite low" and "not as ebulliant and chipper as usual".
(14) I think in some ways she represented his sanctuary.” She speaks in a chipper, chatty manner, much like Mrs Booth, but in tones crisper than the character’s soft burr.
(15) For 1,028 male workers (705 riveters, 284 chippers, and 39 grinders), the prevalence rate of the syndrome was 13.4% and for a reference group of 256 workers it was 1.6%.
(16) This finding, when coupled with other data about chippers' smoking patterns and nicotine absorption, establish that chippers cannot maintain substantial plasma nicotine levels between cigarettes, and thus suggest that attempts to maintain minimal trough levels of nicotine do not underlie chippers' smoking.
(17) Assays of cotinine (a long-lasting nicotine metabolite) also suggested that chippers' per-cigarette nicotine absorption equaled that of dependent smokers.
(18) He is also the only sound editor the Coen Brothers work with, which means that he is the person responsible for that gnarly wood chipper noise in Fargo, the peel of wallpaper in Barton Fink, the resonance of The Dude’s bowling ball in The Big Lebowski and the absolutely chilling crinkle of Javier Bardem’s gum wrapper in No Country for Old Men.
(19) There were puppies and cookies, and while it was cute and chipper, it was immediately forgettable.
(20) Indeed, when asked about Congress, Bernanke adopted the chipper tone of a wife who knows her husband will never pick up his socks and has just accepted the task.