Definition of Chipped

1. Adjective. having a chip (small piece) or chips missing ¹

2. Adjective. (automotive) (''no comparative or superlative'') having had the engine management system upgraded, usually to increase power ¹

3. Verb. (past of chip) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chipped

1. chip [v] - See also: chip

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chipped

chipmaking
chipmuck
chipmucks
chipmunk
chipmunk voice
chipmunk voices
chipmunked
chipmunking
chipmunks
chipmusic
chipolata
chipolatas
chipotle
chipotles
chippable
chipped (current term)
chipped potato
chipped potatoes
chipper
chippered
chippering
chipperly
chipperness
chippers
chippie
chippier
chippies
chippiest
chipping
chipping sparrow

Literary usage of Chipped

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

1. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1910)
"Flat oval river pebble with pieces chipped from both sides of the edge at five places, ... Oval river pebble with four notches chipped in the edge nearly ..."

2. Standard Or Head-dress?: An Historical Essay on a Relic of Ancient Mexico by Zelia Nuttall (1904)
"45274 1 chipped piece of slate. " 45275 1 broken piece of granite. 45.276 1 chipped piece of jasper. 45.277 1 rude, grooved axe-like weapon. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1892)
"That these chipped stones all fell from the discolored implement-bearing stratum in the upper part of the bank we need not positively assert, ..."

4. The Antiquities of Tennessee and the Adjacent States, and the State of by Gates Phillips Thruston (1897)
"127 represents a chipped stone "implement," found in a field adjoining the Noel ... One of the most interesting chipped tools or implements we have seen was ..."

5. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Yale University (1911)
"There is a small group of chipped and polished implements including ... They are chipped from a dark compact material, probably silicified ash or tuff. ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1879)
"The identity of the manufacturers of the chipped quartzite implements which are found in Southern India is less clear, but suggestions regarding it were ..."

7. The Archaeological Collection of the United States National Museum by Charles Rau (1876)
"Archaeologists, therefore, divide the European stone age into a period of chipped and one of ground stone, or, technically speaking, ..."

8. The Northern Tribes of Central Australia by Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen (1904)
"Thi: is somewhat roughly chipped into shape and attached by means of resin and twine to a light reed shaft which maj be io feet in length (Fig. 234). ..."

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