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Definition: CHIPS |
CHIPSNoun1. A ship's carpenter. |
Date "CHIPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | Dry combination of binders or plasticizers and pigments in flake form. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Small pieces of cinnamon bark obtained during debarking, and used particularly in the manufacture of cinnamon essence. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Wood which has been subdivided into pieces of a size suitable for e. g. pulp manufacture. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | Wood which has been mechanically decomposed into sizes suitable for e. g. paper making, fibre board manufacturing, burning. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: The chips used in casinos to represent money may have been the source of this term. Definition: 'Chips' is another word for money. Context: 'Chips' will be used instead of 'money' during buisness transactions as often as the dealer sees fit. Social Source: Urban Drug Dealers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | CHIPS, A nick name for a carpenter. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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CHiPs was a US television series running on NBC from 1977 to 1983. A light-weight drama created by Rick Rosner, it starred Erik Estrada ("Ponch" Poncherello) and Larry Wilcox (Jon Baker) as police officers of the Los Angeles branch of the California Highway Patrol (CHP).The program ran for 139 episodes over six seasons and there was one belated television movie. In season 5, Estrada was occasionally replaced by Bruce Jenner (Steve McLeish) due to a contract dispute. Prior to season 6, Wilcox fell out with Estrada and left to be replaced by Tom Reilly (Bobby Nelson) who was in turn replaced in later episodes by Bruce Penhall (Bruce Nelson) following a falling out between Estrada and Reilly. Due to falling ratings through seasons 5 and 6 the show was cancelled in 1983.
Other regular actors were Michael Dorn (Officer Turner), Brodie Greer (Officer Baricza), Paul Linke (Grossman), Robert Pine (Sergeant Getraer), Randi Oakes (Officer Bonnie Clark), and Lou Wagner (Harlan).
External link
- http://www.chips-tv.com/
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French fries (called chips in Britain, Ireland, and other parts of the Commonwealth; patates frites in France and Belgium) are potatoes that have been cut and deep-fried (i.e., french-fried potatoes). The name is often shortened to just fries in the US. Usually, the "french" in french fries is not capitalized, since it does not refer to the nationality. French fries are distinct from potato chips (also called crisps).
Most authorities believe that french fries are Belgian in origin, but that they have gained international prominence due to their pre-eminence in American fast food menus, propagated by fast food chains like McDonald's and Burger King (Hungry Jacks in Australia). In American fast food chains, french fries are typically served with hamburgers. They are also often eaten with meat, fish, and vegetables or by themselves. They also make up half of the classic food combination fish and chips.
The largest producer of french fries in the world is McCain Foods Limited, a Canadian company in Florenceville, New Brunswick. Such is the popularity of french fries that McCain Foods Limited can produce more than one million pounds of potato products every hour in its 30 potato processing plants on six continents around the world.
Origin of the name
There are many theories about the origin of the American name of the dish. By one account, the fried potatoes are called french fries because they were once fried in the French manner (that is to say frying them two times with a small pause in the middle). Other accounts say that they were once called German fries or Belgian fries but the name was changed either for political reasons (Germany was once the enemy of the US) or simple historical reasons (because France was where World War I American soldiers first encountered the dish). It is also possible that it is a misunderstanding of the archaic British usage of "French fried potatoes" to mean sauté potatoes, i.e. the French way of shallow frying potatoes that have been peeled, parboiled, allowed to cool and then sliced thinly; this is far more convenient than deep frying if frying other items as well, or if using previously prepared materials in a hurry (as in the English cooked breakfast).
History
Potatoes cut and fried in this manner are said to have first been served in the United States by Thomas Jefferson at his Monticello estate after his return from his ambassadorship to France.
According to the Food Reference Web site,
- The first reference to French fried potatoes was in 1894 in O. Henry's Rolling Stones, "Our countries are great friends. We have given you Lafayette and French fried potatoes."
Variants
French fries have numerous variants, from "thick-cut" to "shoestring", "curly", and "waffle-cut". They can also be coated with breading and spices to create "seasoned fries", or cut thickly (often with the skin left on) to create "steak fries".
In Britain, the term french fries is only used by fast food restaurants serving narrow-cut (shoestring) fries prepared in the American style. British chips are usually cut much thicker, making them less crunchy and more fluffy. This results in a healthier dish, as the relative surface area exposed to the oil is much less. In another example of two nations being divided by their common language, potato chips are called crisps in British English.
According to culinary celebrity Alton Brown, Belgian pommes frites are usually fried in horse fat. However, he is mistaken, as traditionally, ox fat was used, although now nut oil is usually preferred for health reasons. Belgian fries must be fried twice, and are thicker than French fries, but thinner than British chips.
In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, the word chips is used for both forms of fried potato; although the phrase hot chips unambiguously refers to french fries or chips.
Accompaniments
French fries are served with a variety of condiments, most notably ketchup, tomato sauce, mayonnaise, tartar sauce or vinegar (especially malt vinegar). In the Netherlands, peanut sauce is also popular (also called satay sauce, after the Indonesian meat sateh on which the same sauce is used). The Dutch also use the word mayonnaise to refer to frietsaus (fries-sauce) a thicker, less acidic sauce made specially to accompany french fries. In Quebec, french fries are the main component of a dish called "poutine" a mixture of French fries with fresh cheddar cheese curds, covered with gravy. In the United States, fries are sometimes coated with melted cheese, called cheese fries. Often this is in combination with chili. Fries are often salted for enhanced flavor.
Health aspects
French fries may contain a large amount of fat from frying and from some condiments or topping and may be bad for your health. Some researchers have also suggested that the high temperatures used for frying such dishes may have results harmful to health (see acrylamides.)
US Political controversy
On March 11, 2003 the cafeteria menus in the three U.S. House of Representatives office buildings changed the name of french fries to freedom fries in a symbolic culinary rebuke of France stemming from anger over that country's opposition to the U.S. government's aggressive position on Iraq. French toast was also changed to freedom toast. The French embassy noted that french fries are Belgian and commented "We are at a very serious moment dealing with very serious issues and we are not focusing on the name you give to potatoes," said Nathalie Loisau, an embassy spokeswoman.
Even though the name change started with private restaurants across the country and was later picked up by the House of Representatives, many French people considered the quick and highly visible reporting of the name change needlessly spiteful, and a media-driven attempt to direct Americans' attention away from the serious reasons for French opposition. See media manipulation and anti-French sentiment in the United States.
Chips in court
In 1994 the well-known owner of Stringfellows nightclub in London, Peter Stringfellow took exception to McCain Foods use of the name "Stringfellows" for a brand of long thin french fries and took them to court. He lost the case.
See also
- Freedom fries
External links
- The Food Reference Website on French fries.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "French fries."
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An integrated circuit (IC) is a microelectronic semiconductor device consisting of many interconnected transistors and other components.
SEM imageSemiconductor device fabrication: ICs are constructed ("fabricated") on a single-crystal silicon "wafer" (or for special applications, silicon on sapphire or gallium arsenide wafers). This is known as the "substrate". Photolithography is used to mark different areas of the substrate to be doped or to have polysilicon or aluminum tracks sputtered on them. (See also semiconductor.) Each device is tested, before packaging. The wafer is then diced into small rectangles called die. The die is then connected into a package using gold or aluminum wires which are welded to "pads", usually found around the edge of the die. After packaging, the devices go through final test on very expensive automated testers, which account for over 25 percent of the cost of fabrication. A fabrication facility, commonly known as a fab, currently costs over a billion US Dollars to construct, because much of the operation is automated. In the most advanced processes, the wafers exceed 30 centimeters in diameter (wider than a common dinner plate).
Integrated circuits can be classified into analog, digital and mixed signal (both analog and digital on the same chip). Digital integrated circuits can contain anything from one to millions of logic gates, flip-flops, multiplexers, etc. in a few square millimeters. The small size of these circuits allows high speed, low power dissipation, and reduced manufacturing cost compared with board-level integration.
The growth of complexity of integrated circuits follows a trend called "Moore's Law", first observed by Gordon Moore of Intel. Moore's Law states that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles every two years. By the year 2000 the largest integrated circuits contained hundreds of millions of transistors, and the trend shows no signs of slowing down.
The integrated circuit is one of the most important inventions of the 20th century. Modern computing, communications, manufacturing, and transportation systems, including the Internet, all depend on its existence.
History
The concept for the integrated circuit was first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer on May 7, 1952. The first integrated circuits were developed independently by two scientists: Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed a patent for a "Solid Circuit" on February 6, 1958, and Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor was awarded a patent for a more complex "unitary circuit" on April 25, 1961.
- Noyce credited Kurt Lehovec of Sprague Electric for the principle of dielectric isolation caused by the action of a p-n junction (the diode) as a key concept behind the IC.
SSI
The first integrated circuits contained only a few transistors. Called "Small-Scale Integration" (SSI), they used circuits containing transistors numbering in the tens.
SSI circuits were crucial to early aerospace projects, and vice-versa. Both the Minuteman missile and Apollo program needed lightweight digital computers for their inertially-guided flight computers; the Apollo flight computer led and motivated the integrated-circuit technology, while the Minuteman missile forced it into mass-production.
These programs purchased almost all of the available integrated circuits from 1960 through 1963, and almost alone provided the demand that funded the production improvements to get the production costs from $1000/circuit (in 1960 dollars) to merely $25/circuit (in 1963 dollars).
MSI
The next step in the development of integrated circuits, taken in the late 1960s, introduced devices which contained hundreds of transistors on each chip, called "Medium-Scale Integration" (MSI).
They were attractive economically because while they cost little more to produce than SSI devices, they allowed more complex systems to be produced using smaller circuit boards, less assembly work (because of fewer separate components), and a number of other advantages.
LSI
Further development, driven by the same economic factors, led to "Large-Scale Integration" (LSI) in the mid 1970s, with tens of thousands of transistors per chip.
LSI circuits began to be produced in large quantities around 1970, for computer main memories and pocket calculators.
VLSI
The final step in the development process, starting in the 1980s and continuing on, was "Very Large-Scale Integration" (VLSI), with hundreds of thousands of transistors, and beyond (well past several million in the latest stages). The largest chips are sometimes called "Ultra Large-Scale Integration" (ULSI).
For the first time it became possible to fabricate a CPU or even an entire microprocessor on a single integrated circuit. In 1986 the first one megabyte RAM was introduced, which contained more than one million transistors. Microprocessor chips produced in 1994 contained more than three million transistors.
This step was largely made possible by the codification ( see: Carver Mead and Lynn Conway) of "design rules" for the CMOS technology used in VLSI chips, which made production of working devices much more of a systematic endeavour.
Further Developments
The most extreme integration technique is wafer-scale integration (WSI), which uses whole uncut wafers containing entire computers (processors as well as memory). Attempts to take this step commercially in the 1980s (e.g. by Gene Amdahl) failed, and it does not now seem to be a high priority for industry.
In the 1980s programmable integrated circuits were developed. These devices contain circuits whose logical function and connectivity can be programmed by the user, rather than being fixed by the integrated circuit manufacturer. This allows a single chip to be programmed to implement different LSI-type functions such as logic gates, adders and registers. Current devices named FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) can now implement tens of thousands of LSI circuits in parallel and operate up to 400 MHz.
Notable Integrated Circuits
- The 555 common multivibrator subcircuit (used in electronic timing circuits)
- The 741 operational amplifier
- 7400 series TTL logic building blocks
- 4000 series CMOS successors to the 7400 series
- Intel 4004, the world's first microprocessor
- The MOS 6502 microprocessor, used in many home computers
See also
- Electronics
- Mixed-mode integrated circuit
- Transistor-transistor logic (TTL)
- Electrical engineering
- Computer engineering
- Microcontroller
- Simulation
- SPICE, HDL, ZIF, ATPG
References
- Mead, C. and Conway, L. (1980). Introduction to VLSI Systems. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-04358-0.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Integrated circuit."
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Potato chips (or crisps in British and Irish usage) are potatoes cut into very thin slices and deep fried until crisp and then cooled and packaged for sale. The simplest chips are just fried and salted, but a wide variety of flavorings (mostly made using MSG and a few herbs/spices) are used to produce variously 'flavoured' chips. The process by which the modern potato chip or crisp emerged as a mass market, mass appeal food product occurred in two stages.
The Origin of the Potato Chip
It is believed that potatoes were first prepared in this way by George Crum, a chef at the Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga Springs, New York on August 24, 1853. He was fed up with a customer who continued to send his fried potatoes back, because they were too thick. Crum decided to slice the potatoes so thin that they couldn't be eaten with a fork. Against Crum's expectation the guest was ecstatic about the chips. They became a regular item on the lodge's menu under the name Saratoga Chips. They soon became popular throughout New England.
A mass marketed potato chip could not become popular until the 1920s when the mechanical potato peeler was invented. This product was developed by Herman Lay, a travelling saleman in the U.S. south. Potato chips generate a sizable amount of revenue in the American snack food industry, with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the food being sold every year.
The Appearance of Flavored Potato Chips
The potato chip or crisp remained unflavored, which limited its appeal, until an innovation by the owner of an Irish crisp company called Tayto, who developed a technology to add flavoring in the 1940s. Though a small company, consisting almost entirely of his immediate family who prepared the chips, the owner had long proved himself an innovator. After some trial and error, he produced the world's first flavored potato chips, 'Cheese and Onion' and 'Salt 'n' Vinegar' (in which in the latter case the salt was originally sold in a sealed packet inside the chip packet, to be added when required).
His innovation became an overnight sensation in the food industry, with the heads of some of the biggest potato-chip companies in the United States heading to Dublin to the small family-run Tayto business to examine the product and to negotiate the rights to use the new technology. When eventually, the Tayto company was sold, it made the owner and the small family group who had changed the face of potato chip manufacture one of Ireland's wealthiest men, able to retire to the Riviera and to work on other ideas. Companies worldwide sought to buy the rights to his technique.
That Tayto Crisps innovation changed the whole nature of the potato chip. Later potato chip manufacturers added natural and artificial flavors to potato chips, with varying degrees of success. A product that had had a large appeal to a limited market on the basis of one flavor now had a degree of market penetration through vast numbers of flavors that would have astonished George Crum. The most popular forms of flavored potato chips include "sour cream and onion," "barbecue," and cheese-flavored chips. Various other flavors of potato chips are sold in different parts of the country, including the original "salt and vinegar", produced by Tayto, which remains by far Ireland's biggest manufacturer of crisps. Some companies have also marketed baked potato chips as an alternative with a lower fat content.
The success of potato chips also gave birth to fried corn chips, with such brands as Frito's, CC's and Doritos dominating the market.
In American cuisine, a whole class of recipes exists that use crushed potato chips, often like one would use bread crumbs. These include cookies, pies, breadings for meat, sauces or dips, hamburgers among others.
In British usage, where these are called "crisps", the term "chips" refers to what Americans call french fries. In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, both forms of potato product are simply known as 'chips', as are the larger 'home-style' potato chips.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Potato chips."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CHIPS | English | Chemical Engineering Information Processing System | Computing, Chemistry |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Death | Pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips; join the greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death. (be killed). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CHIPS |
| English words defined with "CHIPS": attractable ♦ boodle ♦ Camphor tree, Chicago, chipboard, Chippy, chocolate chip cookie, croupier's rake ♦ fiberboard, fibreboard ♦ gaming table, gingery ♦ hardboard, hot ♦ Jerusalem artichoke ♦ Michigan ♦ newmarket ♦ particle board, peppery, Planing machine ♦ Spalt, spicy, stops, sunchoke ♦ Toll House cookie ♦ Whittlings. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CHIPS": blanched chips ♦ enveloping volume of chips ♦ pin chips ♦ SCREEN TENDER, CHIPS. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CHIPS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (chips, crisps), German (chips), Portuguese (chips), Swedish (chip, crisp, potato chips). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Nice big golden chips with a piece of fried fish (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Good chips. (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.) You aren't all that and a bag of potato chips. (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers) March yourself right down to the Quik-E-Mart and get me some chips and a beer (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Well, I remember trying to dig up stuff back then, but, you know, turns out, when a secret government agency studies vampires and puts chips in their brains that keep them from hurting people, they don't really build web sites (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | Now, and when the chips are down (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC) All that in a bag of chips (Bow Wow [That's My Name]; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow) | |
Clever | When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty. (references; author: unknown) Friends are chocolate chips in the cookie of life! (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Ike ships ice chips in ice chips ships. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Curry & Chips (1969) Mr. Chips Goodbye (1969) Fish and Chips (1962) Chips Ahoy (1956) Two Chips and a Miss (1952) | |
Song Titles | Rubber Biscuit (performing artist: The Chips) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | (3) color slides show beef and beans and cheese on a bed of tortilla chips. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | (2) color slides show different bags of snack chips. (1) bag of Lays brand potato chips, (1) bag of Doritos brand tortilla chips. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
 | The image shows a shopping cart filled with "bad" snacks such as corn and potato chips, cookies, crackers, etc. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | A total of 10,00 turkeys are raised in each building in Benton, Arkansas. Manure and wood chips used for bedding are then composted and used for fertilizer on adjacent pastures. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | Compost containing turkey manure and wood chips from bedding material is dried and then applied to pastures for fertilizer. Benton, Arkansas. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | After winning most of the chips in a "Peace Commission Game" with the Spanish Commission, Uncle Sam points a miniature battleship at a terrified Spain. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Inspecting unfired butter chips for the Army Medical Department. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Turlock, California. Housewife serves dinner in the backyard of her home. Menu: barbecued steaks, fresh peas, potato salad, potato chips, celery and olives, strawberry shortcake, and coffee. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Wood chips texture" by Lauri Saarni Commentary: "Texture of wood chips." | "Pelican" by Piers Warmers Commentary: "A pelican who watched me eat my chips, with a hungry look in it's eyes." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Shuffling poker chips. | | Tossing a plastic poker chip into a pile of other chips. |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes | Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Sometimes a rambler in the wood was attracted by the sound of my axe, and we chatted pleasantly over the chips which I had made |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Try sucking on ice chips. (references) | |
Avoid foods fried in oil such as chips, french fries, and doughnuts. (references) | ||
Ask your doctor if you can suck on ice chips, popsicles, or sugarless hard candy. (references) | ||
Business | At present, most chips used on Chinese IC cards are manufactured by European companies. (references) | |
The demand for imported wood fiber, pulp, and chips will also evolve in the next 4-6 years. (references) | ||
It imports chips and other important electronic components to meet the production need of its factories. (references) | ||
Economic History | Hungary | Hungarian law also protects the topography (layout design) of semiconductor chips. (references) |
Korea | Korea is one of the world's leading producers of 64-megabyte and 128-megabyte DRAM chips. (references) | |
Norway | Dolphin Interconnect Solutions and Kongsberg Electronics produce computer cards, chips and components. (references) | |
Human Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | However, in April 2000, the High Court declared illegal the detention of individuals to be used as "bargaining chips." The Government subsequently released 13 Lebanese prisoners; however, Obeid, Dirani, and approximately 17 other Lebanese prisoners remained in custody at year's end. (references) |
Political Economy | India | Despite demands from members of their own party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS - of which the BPJ is an off-shoot), BJP leaders have quietly distanced themselves from their campaign rhetoric which advocated "computer chips and not potato chips" in foreign investment and a "swadeshi" (made in India) economy. (references) |
Trade | Ukraine | Foreign banks service both their multinational clients and Ukrainian blue chips. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
James Dobson | That is a very difficult concept to explain or understand. But theologically, it goes back to the fall and back to the introduction of sin into the world. And the bad chips that happen in the world can be traced back to that. |
Sarah Ferguson | You can have baked beans on toast. You can have steak and kidney pie. You can have fish and chips. What do you mean not famous! Fish and chips. Nothing better. Friday night. Fish and chip night. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "CHIPS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.01% of the time. "CHIPS" is used about 1,756 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 98.01% | 1,721 | 4,882 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.37% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.63% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,756 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Finland | Chips Oyj |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "CHIPS": bag of chips ♦ blanched chips ♦ blue chips ♦ Buffalo chips ♦ cash in one's chips ♦ chips & Technologies ♦ enveloping volume of chips ♦ fish and chips ♦ fuel chips ♦ hand in one's chips ♦ have had one's chips ♦ in the chips ♦ pin chips ♦ potato chips ♦ Saratoga chips ♦ when the chips are down ♦ wood chips. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CHIPS": chips-with-everything. | |
Ending with "CHIPS": blue-chips, diamond-chips, elm-chips, fish-and-chips, ice-chips, micro-chips, multi-chips, p-chips, wood-chips. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CHIPS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | peshk me patate të skuqura (fish and chips). (various references) | |
Arabic | رقاقات بطاطا مقلية, شيبسي رقائق بطاطس محمرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | корабен дърводелец, пържени картофи (french fries). (various references) | |
Chinese | 芯片 (Chip). (various references) | |
Czech | smažené brambùrky, pomfrity (french fries), hranolky. (various references) | |
Danish | chips (cinnamon waste, Clearing House Interbank Payments System, featherings, potato chips, potato crisps), træflis (shavings), knoglechips, kartoffelchips (potato chips, potato crisps), flis (shavings, wood chips), featherings (cinnamon waste, featherings), borespaaner. (various references) | |
Dutch | chips (cinnamon waste, Clearing House Interbank Payments System, featherings, potato chips, potato crisps), weggevonkte deeltjes, stukjes hout, splinter (splinter), spanen (wood chips), spaanders (wood chips), spaander (chip, cuttings, millings, particles, planings, swarf, turnings), kaneelafval (cinnamon waste, featherings), houtspanen (shavings), houtblokjes (shavings), featherings (cinnamon waste, featherings). (various references) | |
Finnish | perunalastut, perunalastu (potato chips, potato crisps), hiutaleet (flake), hake (chip, particle, shavings, wood chip, woodchip). (various references) | |
French | frites, chips (potato chips). (various references) | |
German | Chips (cinnamon waste, featherings), Pommes frites (french fries, potato chip). (various references) | |
Greek | ροκανίδια (shavings), πριονίδια (saw dust, sawdust, shavings), πετάλια, λέπια, απορρίμματα κανέλας (cinnamon waste, featherings), τηγανιτές πατάτες (French fries), θραύσμα (chip, fragment, shard, splinter). (various references) | |
Hebrew | גרודת (filings, iron filings, scraps, shavings). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szalmakrumpli (french fries), rósejbni (chipped potatoes, crisps, French fries, fried potatoes), hasábburgonya (chipped potatoes, crisps, french fries), guba (bean, bread, dough, dumps, lolly, rhino, wampum), burgonyaszirom (crisps). (various references) | |
Italian | CHIPS (cinnamon waste, Clearing House Interbank Payments System, featherings, shavings), trucioli ottenuti per trapanatura, trucioli (chippings, turnings), schegge (chippings), patatine fritte (chip), patatine (potato chips, potato crisps), frammenti di cannella (cinnamon waste, featherings), frammenti (scraps), featherings (cinnamon waste, featherings). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 素片 (fragments, materials), 切り屑 (scraps). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きりくず (scraps), そへん (fragments, materials). (various references) | |
Korean | 칩 (Chip). (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | fritten. (various references) | |
Manx | speiltyn praase. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipschay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | chips,desperdícios de canela (cinnamon waste, featherings), chips, lascas de madeira (shavings), estilhas de madeira (shavings), estilha (sliver, splinter), batatas fritas (french fries, fried potatoes, greaser), batata frita (potato chip), "chips". (various references) | |
Romanian | cips (potato chips), în fonduri (in the chips). (various references) | |
Russian | чипсы, чип, кусочки, ломтики, деньги (currency, dough, furniture of pocket, gelt, l.s.d., mammon, medium of circulation, money, monies, necessary, oof, pelf, pocket, scads, shekels, shiners, siller, spondulicks). (various references) | |
Scottish | casnaid (chips of wood). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | čips. (various references) | |
Spanish | patatas fritas (chip, crisps, french fries, fried potatoes, potato chips). (various references) | |
Swedish | chips (chip, crisp, potato chips), spån (chip, cutting), pommes frites (french fried potatoes, french fries), flis (wood chips), avfall (apostasy, backsliding, cutting, cuttings, defection, dross, falling away, garbage, leavings, litter, odd-come-short, offal, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, waste). (various references) | |
Turkish | cips (crisps, potato chips, potato crisps), patates kızartması (chip, french fried potatoes, french fries, fried potatoes). (various references) | |
Welsh | naddion (lint, shreds). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cementa. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CHIPS": biochips, microchips. (additional references) | |
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"CHIPS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cgip, Cgis, chapes, chapess, chasp, cheapos, chebs, Chepo, chhish, Chiappa, chibis, chics, chies, chiop, chiops, chipe, chipp, chipps, chipy, Chis, chish, Chiusa, Chiusi, Chrisp, Cipcs, cips, Cmis, cnip, cnips, cnisp, Hcip, nchip. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CHIPS" (pronounced khi"ps) |
| 4 | kh i" p s | microchips. |
| 3 | -i" p s | blips, clips, dips, drips, eclipse, ellipse, equips, flips, grips, hips, lips, outstrips, pips, quips, rips, ships, sips, skips, slips, snips, strips, thrips, tips, trips, whips, zips. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-p-s" | |
-1 letter: chip, chis, hips, ichs, phis, pics, pish, ship, spic. | |
-2 letters: chi, cis, hic, hip, his, ich, phi, pic, pis, psi, sic, sip. | |
-3 letters: hi, is, pi, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-p-s" | |
+1 letter: chimps, chirps, phasic, physic, scyphi. | |
+2 letters: aphasic, caliphs, ceriphs, chopins, ciphers, hiccups, hospice, isopach, pachisi, peckish, phobics, phonics, photics, physics, pinches, pitches, psychic, puckish, sapphic, spathic, sphenic, spheric, spinach, sylphic. | |
+3 letters: aphasiac, aphasics, aphonics, aspheric, biochips, biphasic, calipash, cepheids, chapatis, charpais, cheapies, cheapish, chippers, chippies, chirpers, chirrups, chopines, chumship, clumpish, copihues, diphasic, diptychs, dispatch, graphics, haircaps, hepatics, hospices, isopachs, mispatch, pachisis, painches, parchesi, parchisi, pashalic, pastiche, penuchis, phthisic, physical, pibrochs, picachos, pinchers, pinscher, pistache, pitchers, postiche, potiches, psychics, psyching, pyrrhics, sapphics, scampish, scaphoid, seraphic, siphonic, spherics, sphygmic, spinachy, strophic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Company Usage 15. Expressions 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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