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Chip and Ship Definitions

Chip

A small broken or cut off piece, as of wood, stone, or glass.

Ship

A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.

Chip

A crack or flaw caused by the removal of a small piece.

Ship

A sailing vessel having three or more square-rigged masts.

Chip

A small disk or counter used in poker and other games to represent money.
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Ship

An aircraft or spacecraft.

Chip

Chips Slang Money.

Ship

The crew of one of these vessels.

Chip

See microchip.

Ship

One's fortune
When my ship comes in, I'll move to a larger house.
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Chip

A thin, usually fried slice of food, especially a potato chip
Ate chips with her sandwich.

Ship

To place or receive on board a ship
Shipped the cargo in the hold.

Chip

A very small piece of food or candy
Made cookies with chocolate chips.

Ship

To cause to be transported; send.

Chip

Chips Chiefly British French fries.

Ship

(nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.

Chip

Wood, palm leaves, straw, or similar material cut and dried for weaving.

Ship

A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.

Chip

A fragment of dried animal dung used as fuel.

Ship

A spaceship (the type of pattern in a cellular automaton).

Chip

Something worthless.

Ship

A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.

Chip

(Sports) A chip shot.

Ship

A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.

Chip

A trick method of throwing one's opponent in wrestling.

Ship

(cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck.

Chip

To chop or cut with an axe or other implement.

Ship

(dated) An aircraft.

Chip

To break a small piece from
Chip a tooth.

Ship

(fandom) A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction.

Chip

To break or cut off (a small piece)
Chip ice from the window.

Ship

(transitive) To send by water-borne transport.

Chip

To shape or carve by cutting or chopping
Chipped her name in the stone.

Ship

(transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
To ship freight by railroad

Chip

To implant a microchip in (an organism).

Ship

(ambitransitive) To release a product (not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
Our next issue ships early next year.
It compiles? Ship it!

Chip

To become broken off into small pieces.

Ship

(ambitransitive) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
To ship seamen
I shipped on a man-of-war.

Chip

(Sports) To make a chip shot in golf.

Ship

(intransitive) To embark on a ship.

Chip

To cheep, as a bird.

Ship

To put or secure in its place.
To ship the tiller or rudder

Chip

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

Ship

(transitive) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
We were shipping so much water I was sure we would capsize.

Chip

A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
This cup has a chip in it.

Ship

Leave, depart, scram.

Chip

A token used in place of cash.

Ship

To pass (from one person to another).
Can you ship me the ketchup?

Chip

A sovereign the coin.

Ship

To go all in.

Chip

(electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.

Ship

(sports) To trade or send a player to another team.
Twins ship Delmon Young to Tigers.

Chip

(electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.

Ship

(rugby) To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.

Chip

A fried strip of potato of square or rectangular cross-section; a french fry.
Do you want sauce or mayonnaise on your chips?

Ship

(fandom) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.
I ship Kirk and Spock in “Star Trek”.
I ship Peggy and Angie in “Marvel's Agent Carter”.

Chip

A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes another vegetable; a crisp.
They made their own potato chips from scratch, he ate a tortilla chip, served with a side of apple chips

Ship

Pay; reward.
In withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or the wages of servants.

Chip

(sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.

Ship

Any large seagoing vessel.
Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on, and tackle trim,Sails filled, and streamers waving.
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!

Chip

(curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.

Ship

Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix.

Chip

A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.

Ship

A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.

Chip

A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.

Ship

To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.
The timber was . . . shipped in the bay of Attalia, from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.

Chip

(gastronomy) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
Chocolate chip

Ship

By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.

Chip

A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.

Ship

Hence, to send away; to get rid of.

Chip

(nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.

Ship

To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.

Chip

(historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.

Ship

To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.

Chip

Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.

Ship

To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.

Chip

(golf) A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.

Ship

To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.

Chip

(transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.
The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch.

Ship

To embark on a ship.

Chip

(transitive) To break small pieces from.
Be careful not to chip the paint.

Ship

A vessel that carries passengers or freight

Chip

To play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards rather than forwards. In association football specifically, when the shot is a shot on goal, the opposing goalkeeper may be the direct object of the verb, rather than the ball.

Ship

Transport commercially

Chip

To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.

Ship

Hire for work on a ship

Chip

(intransitive) To become chipped.
This varnish chips easily.

Ship

Go on board

Chip

To ante (up).

Ship

Travel by ship

Chip

To fit (an animal) with a microchip.

Ship

Place on board a ship;
Ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel

Chip

To contribute.
Everyone needs to chip in £1 for George's leaving collection

Chip

(also, to chip at) To make fun of.

Chip

To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.

Chip

To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.

Chip

To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.

Chip

To break or fly off in small pieces.

Chip

A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.

Chip

A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.

Chip

Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.

Chip

Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; - used contemptuously.

Chip

One of the counters used in poker and other games.

Chip

The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.

Chip

A small fragment of something broken off from the whole;
A bit of rock caught him in the eye

Chip

A triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line

Chip

A piece of dried bovine dung

Chip

A thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

Chip

A mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something

Chip

A small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling

Chip

Electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit

Chip

A low running approach shot

Chip

The act of chipping something

Chip

Break off (a piece from a whole);
Her tooth chipped

Chip

Cut a nick into

Chip

Play a chip shot

Chip

Form by chipping;
They chipped their names in the stone

Chip

Break a small piece off from;
Chip the glass
Chip a tooth

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