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Chip - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | chip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shard, flaw |
| Synonyms: | dent, flake, fragment, nick, notch, part, scrap, scratch, slice, sliver, wafer, wedge, gobbet, paring, shaving |
| Main Entry: | chip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | knock a piece out of |
| Synonyms: | break, chisel, chop, clip, crack, crumble, cut off, damage, flake, fragment, gash, hack, hew, incise, nick, notch, shape, shear, slash, slice, sliver, snip, splinter, split, whack, whittle, crack off, cut away, hackle, snick |
| Main Entry: | blemish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flaw |
| Synonyms: | birthmark, blister, bloom*, blot, blotch, blur, brand, bruise, bug*, catch, chip, defacement, defect, deformity, dent, discoloration, disgrace, dishonor, eyesore, fault, freckle, imperfection, impurity, lump, mark, mole, patch, pimple, pock, pockmark, scar, second, sight, smudge, snag, speck, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, vice, wart, zit*, beauty spot, blackhead, blot on the landscape, cicatrix, disfigurement, hickey, lentigo, macula, maculation, nevus, nodule, speckle, whitehead |
| Antonyms: | adornment, decoration, embellishment, ornament |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | carve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut carefully with sharp instrument |
| Synonyms: | block out, chip, chisel, cleave, dissect, divide, engrave, etch, fashion, form, grave, hack, hew, incise, indent, model, mold, pattern, shape, slash, slice, stipple, sunder, tool, trim, whittle, dissever, insculpt, mould, rough-hew, sculpt |
| Main Entry: | cheep |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | vocalize as a bird |
| Synonyms: | chip, chipper, chirp, peep, tweet, twitter, chirrup, tweedle |
| Notes: | cheap means relatively low in price or charging low prices, tastelessly showy, or of very poor quality while cheep is the short weak cry of a young bird, a chirp |
| Main Entry: | chirp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | peep, cheep |
| Synonyms: | call, chip, chipper, lilt, pipe, quaver, roll, sing, sound, trill, tweet, twitter, warble, chirrup, purl, tweedle |
| Main Entry: | flake |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | peel off |
| Synonyms: | blister, chip, drop, exfoliate, pare, scale, shed, slice, sliver, trim, delaminate, desquamate, scab, wear away |
| Main Entry: | lump |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clump, mass |
| Synonyms: | agglomeration, ball, bit, block, bulge, bulk, bump, bunch, cake, chip, chunk, cluster, crumb, dab, group, growth, handful, hunk, knot, lot, morsel, mountain, much, nugget, part, peck, piece, pile, portion, protrusion, protuberance, scrap, section, solid, spot, swelling, tumor, wad, wedge, gob, knurl, tumescence |
| Main Entry: | slab |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chunk of solid object |
| Synonyms: | bar, billet, bit, board, chip, cut, cutting, hunk, ingot, lump, muck, piece, plate, portion, rod, slice, stick, stone, strip, wedge, boulder, stave |
| Main Entry: | splinter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thin piece of solid |
| Synonyms: | bit, chip, flake, fragment, needle, sliver, wood, paring, shaving |
| Main Entry: | tag |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | label, ticket |
| Synonyms: | ID*, badge, button, card, check, chip, docket, emblem, flap, identification, inscription, insignia, logo, mark, marker, motto, note, pin, slip, stamp, stub, tab, tally, trademark, voucher, sticker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | whittle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut away at; reduce |
| Synonyms: | carve, chip, consume, decrease, diminish, erode, fashion, form, hew, lessen, model, mold, pare, shape, shave, trim, undermine, eat away, sculpt, wear away |
| Antonyms: | build, increase |
| Main Entry: | circuitry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | circuits |
| Synonyms: | chip, electronics, wiring, connections, integrated circuits, microcircuitry, systems |
| Main Entry: | integrated circuit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incorporated computer circuit |
| Synonyms: | chip, circuitry, silicon chip, IC, computer chip, logic circuit, microchip, microcircuit, microelectronics, microprocessor, microprocessor chip, semiconductor chip, transputer |
| Main Entry: | silicon chip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | semiconductor crystal |
| Synonyms: | board, chip, PCB, gallium arsenide chip, hybrid chip, microchip, microcircuit, motherboard, neural network chip, printed circuit board, semiconductor chip, superchip, transputer, wafer chip |
| Main Entry: | bit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiny piece |
| Synonyms: | atom, butt, chicken feed*, chip, chunk, crumb, dab, dash, division, dollop, dose, dot, droplet, end, excerpt, flake, fraction, fragment, grain, iota, item, jot, lick*, lump, mite, modicum, moiety, molecule, morsel, niggle, parcel, part, particle, pinch, portion, sample, scale, scintilla, scrap, section, segment, share, shred, slice, sliver, smidgen, snatch, snip, snippet, specimen, speck, splinter, sprinkling, stub, stump, taste, trace, trickle, driblet, peanuts, shard, shaving, tittle |
| Antonyms: | whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | breach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap |
| Synonyms: | aperture, break, chasm, chip, cleft, crack, fissure, hole, opening, rent, rift, rupture, slit, split, discontinuity |
| Antonyms: | bridge, connection |
| Main Entry: | crack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, crevice |
| Synonyms: | breach, chink, chip, cleft, cranny, crevasse, cut, division, fissure, fracture, gap, hole, interstice, interval, rent, rift, rime, split, discontinuity, rima, rimation |
| Main Entry: | crack |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break, usually into parts |
| Synonyms: | burst, chip, chop, cleave, crackle, crash, damage, detonate, explode, fracture, hurt, impair, injure, pop, ring, sever, shiver, snap, splinter, split, rive |
| Antonyms: | fix, mend |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incision |
| Synonyms: | chip, chop, cleavage, cleft, dissection, fissure, furrow, gash, graze, groove, intersection, laceration, mark, nick, nip, notch, opening, passage, penetration, pierce, prick, rent, rip, sculpture, section, shave, slash, slit, slot, snip, stab, stroke, trench, trim, wound, carving, kerf, rabbet, scarification |
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