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Definition of Chips

1. Noun. Strips of potato fried in deep fat.

Definition of Chips

1. n. A ship's carpenter.

Definition of Chips

1. Noun. (plural of chip) ¹

2. Noun. (British Aus) french fried potatoes; french fries. ¹

3. Noun. (American English) Thin-sliced and deep-fried potatoes sold in sealed bags; potato chips, nacho chips, etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chips

1. chip [v] - See also: chip

Medical Definition of Chips

1. Woody material cut into short, thin wafers. Chips are used as a raw material for pulping and fibreboard or as biomass fuel. (05 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chips

Literary usage of Chips

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by Ohio State Geologist, Ohio Division of Geological Survey (1912)
"Some gray, finely arenaceous chips, Feet Feet which arc perhaps from the Berca ... A few chips of bluish, argillaceous shale 20 360 9. Bedford formation. ..."

2. Income Opportunities in Special Forest Products: Self-Help Suggestions for by Margaret G. Thomas (1994)
"chips, shavings, and bark are usually obtained as by-products from a region's ... Logging byproducts with commercial potential chips Sawdust Shavings ..."

3. Pyaments, Clearance, and Settlement: A Guide to the Systems, Risks, and Issues by Nolani T. Traylor, Tamara E. Cross, Nancy Eibeck, Robert Pollard (1998)
"chips charges a participant 18 cents per transaction for the first 80000 transactions per month that it sends or receives. After a participant sends or ..."

4. Beet-sugar Manufacture by Hermann Claassen (1910)
"Dried chips which are carried to a low water-content take up water again from the air till the percentage becomes 12-14, with, ..."

5. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1909)
"After the second one is filled with chips the water in the first is drawn ... When this diffuser is filled with fresh chips it is closed and the juice or ..."

6. Food Ingestion and Energy Transformations: With Special Reference to the by Francis Gano Benedict, Thorne Martin Carpenter (1918)
"BEEFSTEAK AND POTATO chips. As it was somewhat difficult for the subjects to eat beefsteak alone, approximately 20 grams of potato chips were taken in a few ..."

7. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1871)
"MILLER'S chips FROM A GERMAN WORKSHOP.* VOL. III.— This volume is hardly so well entitled to the name it bears as were the two which preceded it What we ..."

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