CHIPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chips mean? 

• CHIPS (noun)
  The noun CHIPS has 1 sense:

1. strips of potato fried in deep fat

  Familiarity information: CHIPS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHIPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strips of potato fried in deep fat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

chips; french-fried potatoes; french fries; fries

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)

 Context examples 

Different chips can be printed to diagnose different diseases.

(Scientists say new medical diagnostic chip can sort cells anywhere with an inkjet, Wikinews)

Using techniques similar to those used for the manufacture of computer chips, they then created a series of light-responsive sections on this nanowire.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)

Don’t buy any new machines, including a car, smart phone, refrigerator, computer, or any other product with moving parts or chips inside until the end of the month.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The simplest micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) that can be easily machined and mass-produced via the same techniques used to make computer chips.

(Nanocantilever, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A solid composed of active and/or inert ingredient(s) that resembles small, thin chips.

(Flake Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

The tissue chips allowed the researchers to grow neurons and blood vessels together, which was impossible to do in petri dishes.

(Researchers begin recreating human spinal cords on a chip, National Institutes of Health)

There were only four stationers of any consequences in the town, and at each Holmes produced his pencil chips, and bid high for a duplicate.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Avoid empty calories, which are foods with lots of calories but few nutrients, such as chips, cookies, soda and alcohol.

(Nutrition for Seniors, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

White Fang, sliding by in quest of meat, stopped and began to eat the chips.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Here are young chips from an old bow stave!” cried the soldier in great delight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)