chip

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. piece, splinter, fragment, flake; counter, check. See part, money. —v. t. break, split. See disjunction.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [A fragment]

Syn. thin slice, shard, sliver, shaving; see bit 1 , flake , part 1 .

2. [A microcircuit]

Syn. microchip, integrated circuit, semiconductor, microprocessor, silicon chip, computer on a chip.

3. [A place where a piece has chipped off]

Syn. nick, scratch, flaw; see blemish , nick .

4. [A counter used in games]

Syn. token, poker chip, counter, marker, disk, piece.

• having a chip on one's shoulder*,

Syn. ready to fight, belligerent, truculent, hostile; see aggressive 2 , angry .

• in the chips*,

Syn. wealthy, having money, flush*; see rich 1 .

• when the chips are down,

Syn. in a crisis, having trouble, in a difficult position; see in trouble 1 at trouble .

v.

Syn. nick, scratch, gouge, slash, hew, hack, crumble, snip, fragment, break, crack, flake, incise, shape, shape bit by bit, cut fragments from, whittle, crack off, splinter, gash, snick, notch, sliver, cut, cut off, chop, split, slice, chisel, clip, cut away, fracture, shiver, reduce.

Ant. join*, unite, mend.

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

I

n.

fragment, piece, bit, shard, scrap, sliver, shred, flake, dent, mark, nick, scratch, break, crack, flaw, fault.

II

v.

fragment, nick, crack, crumble, break off, sliver, fracture, splinter, scratch, flake.