Entry Word: chip

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a small flat piece separated from a whole <wood chips were spread over the ground between the plants>

Synonyms flake, sliver, splint, splinter

Related Words bit, disk (or disc), fragment, particle, scrap, shard; shiver, smithereens; shred, tatter; clipping, paring, shaving, snippet; leaf, sheet, slice; chunk, hunk, lump, slab

2 a V-shaped cut usually on an edge or a surface <watch out for the chip on the rim of that drinking glass> — see notch 1
3 chips pluralsomething (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment <was in the chips after buying a winning lottery ticket> — see money