(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.)
Spall
Definition:
(n.) The shoulder.
(n.) A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge.
(v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock.
(v. t.) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
(v. i.) To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frosty … Rafe Spall in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.
(2) He was a much smaller man than Tim Spall but I decided not to worry about that.” Dick Pope was honoured at Cannes with a technical award for his cinematography for bringing the paintings to life: the film is filled with Turneresque colour: rose, amber, palest blue… “It’s interesting,” Leigh says, “that this is the first full-length film we have made with a digital camera.
(3) His first spell there, while successful, was dotted with rows with players – especially Rivaldo – and his second spall was something of a disaster.
(4) He takes the title role in this comedy about divorced dad Rafe Spall’s attempts to find Santa’s lost reindeer, bust the big fellow from prison after a run-in with the authorities and thereby save Christmas.
(5) Spall's performance has been much celebrated for its emotional depth, despite Turner's vocabulary in the film often consisting of grunts, snorts and spitting saliva onto the canvas.
(6) It is, perhaps, strange that after all they have been through, the Spalls should have chosen so strenuous – and potentially hazardous – a pastime.
(7) Thus to see Timothy Spall in Mr Turner mindlessly attacking a badly painted oil sketch was a painful experience for those that love and study art, spoiling for me what otherwise was a beautifully shot and constructed film.
(8) There was nothing for the hottest Broadway ticket of last year, a revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal directed by Mike Nicholls and starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall.
(9) Timothy Spall deservedly won the best actor award at Cannes this year for his portrayal of the painter JMW Turner as a kind of intermittently tender warthog.
(10) Julianne Moore was named best actress for her performance as a demented Hollywood diva in David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, while Britain's Timothy Spall won the best actor prize for his grunting, growling masterclass as marine painter JMW Turner in Mike Leigh's period drama Mr Turner .
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Timothy Spall stars in the forthcoming Mr Turner, directed by Mike Leigh Photograph: Allstar Picture Library “The skies over Thanet are the loveliest in all Europe,” he wrote of the area around Margate, where he painted more than 100 oils and watercolours.
(12) However, Spall, 57, has been painting for a decade, mostly canvases of anguished angels.
(13) He reckons Mr Turner will take the Palme d'Or, the Dardennes brothers socialist drama Two Days, One Night will have the second place Grand Prix, and Timothy Spall will be shut out of best actor by Channing Tatum or Steve Carell, both in Foxcatcher.
(14) But there is strong competition from Leviathan, a Russian epic inspired by the Book of Job and full of barbed digs at the Moscow administration, and from Mike Leigh's artist biopic Mr Turner, starring Timothy Spall.
(15) The costume drama, Leigh's first since his depiction of the eccentric Gilbert and Sullivan partnership in Topsy-Turvy, will star Timothy Spall as the enigmatic painter, with Marion Bailey, Dorothy Atkinson and Paul Jesson in supporting roles.
(16) Peter Bradshaw on Mr Turner – Timothy Spall dazzles as JMW Turner
(17) Turner is played by Timothy Spall , who has already received the Cannes best actor award for a tremendous and disconcerting performance.
(18) Notable names missing include Daniel Radcliffe, rave-reviewed for The Cripple of Inishmaan, Denzel Washington (A Raisin in the Sun) and the hottest Broadway ticket of last year, a revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal directed by Mike Nicholls and starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Timothy Spall, who ‘had an amateur notion of doodling’ had to study painting to prepare for his role in Mr Turner.
(20) Since Tim Spall had agreed to be in it by then and he's not what one would call svelte ... [Laughter] ... it pointed me in the direction where my imagination could get going with things that are an ongoing preoccupation.