Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
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name
A hamlet in Buckland parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3532).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6243).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Obsolete form of Chepping Wycombe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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noun
A fragment broken off a larger object.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
The act of creating or producing chips, as by breaking something into small fragments, cutting potatoes, removing fragments from pottery, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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verb
present participle and gerund of chip
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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noun
the act of chipping something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: chip, splintering
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Broader terms: breakage, break, breaking
History
From Old English ċīeping (“market, marketplace”). Compare Swedish köping ("market"). Chipping, Cheapside, and cheap all reflect ancestry from Old English ceapian, concerning trading in markets.
From Middle English chippyng, chippynge, equivalent to chip + -ing.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
