Noun

(en noun)

(label) A portion; a component.

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#A distinct element.

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#A group inside a larger group.

#Share, especially of a profit.

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#A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.

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#3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.

#A section of a document.

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#A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.

#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vi:

#*:the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part .

# A factor.

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Duty; responsibility.

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#Position or role (especially in a play).

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#(label) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.

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#Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".

#*, II.15:

#*:the fruition of life cannot perfectly be pleasing unto us, if we stand in any feare to lose it. A man might nevertheless say on the contrary part , that we embrace and claspe this good so much the harder, and with more affection, as we perceive it to be less sure, and feare it should be taken from us.

#*Bible, (w), ix.40:

#*:He that is not against us is on our part .

#*(Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)

#*:Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part .

(US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

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(label) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3? seconds. (jump)

A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.

*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)

*:men of considerable parts

* (1800-1859)

*:great quickness of parts

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.

Noun

(en noun)

A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.

A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.

This cup has a chip in it.

(games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.

* 2002 , Albert H. Moorehead, Hoyle?s Rules of Games , page 46,

If the second player does raise three chips', and all the other players drop, the player who opened may stay in by putting three more '''chips''' in the pot, for then he will have put in precisely as many ' chips as the second player.

(electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.

* 1986' September 1, Tom Moran, Lisa L. Spiegelman, ''New '''Chip''' Said to Contain Seven PC AT '''Chip Functions'', , page 5,

But sources close to the company said the chip contains two direct memory access controllers, two interrupt controllers, a timer, a memory mapper from Texas Instruments, and a Motorola Inc. real-time clock.

(electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.

* 2002', Koji Ikuta, Atsushi Takahashi, Kota Ikeda, Shoji Maruo, ''User-Assembly Fully Integrated Micro Chemical Laboratory Using Biochemical IC '''Chips for Wearable/Implantable Applications'', Yoshinobu Baba, Shuichi Shoji, Albert van den Berg (editors), ''Micro Total Analysis Systems 2002: Proceedings of the ?TAS 2002 Symposium , Volume 1, page 38,

Fig. 4(a) shows a schematic design of the micropump chip .

* 2007 , Elisabeth S. Papazoglou, Aravind Parthasarathy, Bionanotechnology , page 6,

Fig. 0.3 is an image of the front and back views of a drug delivery microchip made of silicon and painted with gold, with a U.S. dime (10 cents). The chip' in the picture consists of 34 nano-sized wells each of which is capable of housing 24 nl (nano liters) of drug. It is possible to make at least 400 wells or even 1000 or more in these ' chips which are very inexpensive, costing less tham $20 [22, 23].

(UK, Ireland, Australia, and, New Zealand) A fried strip of potato of square or rectangular cross-section; a french fry.

Do you want sauce or mayonnaise on your chips ?

(US, Australia, and, New Zealand) A crisp, fried, thin slice of vegetable, usually potato.

potato chip'', ''tortilla chip

(sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=September 28 , author=Tom Rostance , title=Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Oxlade-Chamberlain saw his attempted chip well blocked by goalkeeper Costanzo at the start of the second half.}}

(curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.

A dried piece of dung used as fuel.

(New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.

(gastronomy) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.

chocolate chip

A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.

(nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.

(historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.

(archaic, derogatory) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.