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Collocations for chip - noun

1. (BrE) (usually chips) long thin piece of fried potato, eaten hot

→ See also fry

ADJECTIVE

greasy
frozen, oven-ready

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… OF CHIPS

bag, plate

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VERB + chip

eat, have
All he'll eat is chips.
live on
I never cook anything grand—we live on chips and baked beans.
cook, fry

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chip + NOUN

pan
shop

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PHRASES

and chips, with chips
fish and chips

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2. (usually chips) (AmE) thin round slice of fried potato, etc., dried and eaten cold

→ See also crisp

ADJECTIVE

potato, tortilla (BrE, AmE)

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… OF CHIPS

bag

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PHRASES

chips and dip, chips and salsa

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3. microchip

ADJECTIVE

computer, silicon
graphics, memory, microprocessor
embedded, integrated

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VERB + chip

make, manufacture, produce
design, develop
implant, install
An electronic chip could be implanted in his brain.
use
This notebook uses a chip designed for mobile computing.

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chip + VERB

contain sth
a chip containing the coding devices
run
The computer has an integrated graphics chip running at 333 MHz.

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chip + NOUN

design, technology
set
a Pentium-compatible chip set

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PREPOSITION

on a/the chip
Advances in technology have made it possible to pack even more circuits on a chip.

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PHRASES

chip and PIN (BrE)

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Collocations for chip - verb

ADVERB

badly
She fell and chipped her tooth badly.
away
He was chipping away at the stone.
They chipped away at the power of the government. (figurative)

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PREPOSITION

off
We chipped the paint off the wood.

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Chip is used with these nouns as the subject:
paint

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Chip is used with these nouns as the object:
ball, bone

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