I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bargaining chip
chip and pin
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Most shoppers prefer chip and pin to the old system.
chip pan
chip shop
chocolate chip cookie
chocolate chips (= very small pieces of chocolate )
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vanilla ice cream with chocolate chips
corn chip
cow chip
fish and chips
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Why don't we stop off for some fish and chips on the way home?
fish and chips
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Get some fish and chips on your way home.
flip chip
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flip-chip technology
silicon chip
tortilla chip
wood chips (= small rough pieces )
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Fish are smoked slowly over wood chips.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blue
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Many blue chip companies use team-based competitions with a series of mental and physical challenges.
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Metal, paper and chemical makers were among the leading gainers, helping blue chips to an impressive advance.
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Second line shares, along with blue chips , were in festive spirit.
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The index of blue chip stocks gained 159. 70 for the week.
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The Nasdaq's overnight gains sparked strong demand for electronic blue chips .
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That proved a bonanza in 1995, when blue chips were market leaders.
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Zurich: Selected blue chips saw high turnover as shares firmed across the board.
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Meanwhile, non-tech, blue chip losses were widespread.
chocolate
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For dessert, cover lime sherbet with a blanket of chocolate chips or chocolate sandwich cookie chunks.
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Butter is the dominant flavor of these crisp, delicate cookies dotted with tiny raisins which look like chocolate chips .
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By hand, stir in 1 cup chocolate chips .
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Valerie Hermreck brings a batch of warm-from-the-oven chocolate chip cookies to her husband and children.
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Sprinkle remaining chocolate chips over batter.
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Remove from heat and add chocolate chips and marshmallow cream, stirring until melted.
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In small saucepan, combine condensed milk and chocolate chips to make filling.
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The days of the simple sugar cookie or the basic chocolate chip are gone.
tortilla
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Guiltless Gourmet Baked Not Fried tortilla chips .
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Serve with baked tortilla chips , baked chicken or fish.
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Jim found a seat, and soon the party had settled down to tortilla chips , salsa, menus and conversation.
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Top with a small mound of tortilla chips and serve at once.
■ NOUN
company
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The City also wants to take it easier after yesterday's barrage of trading statements from blue chip companies .
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Last year, soaring demand for computer products helped the majority of computer, software and chip companies post stellar earnings.
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Many blue chip companies use team-based competitions with a series of mental and physical challenges.
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Some interesting manufacturing articles coupled with a number of visits to blue chip companies helped considerably: we were not alone!
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We are very good at supplying international blue chip companies who are brand leaders in their fields.
computer
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B then makes some computer chips and sells them to D, a trade supplier.
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Fox and hockey officials refused to put a price tag on a regulation puck stuffed with computer chips .
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Intel, the world's largest maker of computer chips , posted a 76 % drop in profits for the second quarter.
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Intel, the leading computer chip maker, said first-quarter revenues would be 25 % below the previous quarter.
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Dallas is the birthplace of the computer chip , the chicken fajita and the frozen margarita.
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This is a factory, more than 100 years old, which produces silicone for steel production and computer chips .
cookie
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I buy my six-pack and some chocolate chip cookies .
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Valerie Hermreck brings a batch of warm-from-the-oven chocolate chip cookies to her husband and children.
maker
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Intel, the leading computer chip maker , said first-quarter revenues would be 25 % below the previous quarter.
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The chip maker said it expects to report disappointing results for its fiscal third quarter ending Dec. 31.
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Memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. fell as much as 2 1 / 8 to 30 7 / 8.
memory
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Most of the costs of producing a memory chip are fixed, because of the elaborate factories and equipment needed.
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Unlike other memory chips , flash does not lose the stored contents when the computer is disconnected from a power supply.
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All told, demand for memory chips fell more than 16% in 1990.
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Overproduction of memory chips led to plunging prices.
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No word on who is supplying the memory chips .
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In your computer, the stockroom is the main bank of memory chips , and your processor is the line of customers.
pan
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Kitchen Hazards Never leave a chip pan unattended; better still, replace it with a thermostatically-controlled deep fryer.
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Fat fire: A Stockton man needed hospital treatment for burns to his hands after a chip pan fire.
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With fresh water in the chip pan and a clean brush palette, I got started.
potato
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It was a strange supper - tomatoes, potato chips , dried fruit and cake.
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They're as addicting as potato chips .
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A till was hurled out into the cheering crowd, followed by burgers, potato chips and furniture.
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I miss things like potato chips and junk food.
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The man returned to exchange the fudge for potato chips .
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You can buy cigarettes, potato chips , Ravens pennants, Styrofoam ice chests and snow shovels.
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Could one call Caesars the potato chip of the salad world?
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See, e-mail is a baked potato chip as opposed to a greasy, fried one.
shop
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The Parkgate takeaway was declared the region's top chip shop in a competition we ran in 1990.
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It was half a mile to the chip shop , so you had to get a head start.
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An application has been made to establish a hot food shop adjacent to the chip shop.
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It seemed inevitable after this that he should take himself to the nearest fish and chip shop to eat his supper.
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Also, the fish and chip shop remains.
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The worst pollution is at sites near outlets from industrial potato washing units and fish and chip shops .
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More than once I had gone down to the phone outside the chip shop at Annick Water.
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In the fish and chip shop Charles noticed that his order was wrapped in a copy of the Sun.
silicon
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With modern technology many thousands of bistables can be formed on one silicon chip .
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Today computer networks and intricate silicon chips are grown too.
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But nuclear power brought nuclear warheads, plastics brought pollution, and the silicon chip promises unemployment for some people.
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Complexity poured into the artificial medium of machines and silicon chips will only be in further flux.
wood
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They consist of two layers of paper with wood chips sandwiched between them, and are ideal for hiding minor wall irregularities.
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A wood chip plant will be closed for six months beginning this next week, they said.
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Charcoal, wood chips , coconut shells and maize cobs are the only practical fuels at the moment.
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Dunes of wood chips and mountains of logs rose even with the hillsides that hedged in the valley.
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Pulp the raw material used in paper making consisting mainly of wood chips , rags or other fibres.
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And especially if wood or wood chips from those trees are used for fuel.
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We wander down the paths the students have created and lined with wood chips .
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The wood chips parted against the bow.
■ VERB
cash
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His attitude-as well as those of other old partners-toward the firm changed once he had cashed in his chips .
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Maybe they should cash in chips now.
eat
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Where could they eat steak and chips , buy their favourite drink, or be entertained?
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The kids eat popcorn and chips and play in back.
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If you have to eat a cold chip , you're better off with an old-fashioned greasy one.
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Laskowski looked away when they ate chips or spirited them out to Nathan.
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They all trooped in, eating their fish and chips , and clustered around the bed.
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What John did was eat fish and chips .
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The person who ate fish and chips was John.
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Fish is what John ate - and chips .
produce
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Most of the costs of producing a memory chip are fixed, because of the elaborate factories and equipment needed.
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The stencils are sold to companies which use them to produce semiconductor chips .
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The plant, which currently produces 486 chips , was built to make the 5K86 and more advanced processors.
use
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SuperSparc, on the other hand, can be used in a single chip configuration.
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But few other firms used the Motorola chip and the AViiON sold slowly.
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The 4013 i.c. contains two independent bistables so a 2-bit latch may be made using only one chip .
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The process uses small chips of carbon to adsorb the gold dissolved in solution.
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Convex Computer Corp is expected to reveal the fruits of its work with Hewlett-Packard using the PA-RISC chip early this week.
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For example, the 6x686-P200 system I tested uses a Cyrix chip with a clock speed of 166 megahertz.
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Auspex itself uses the Sparc chip for its own version of the product.
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It is important to use sour pickle chips , as this is what gives the burger its distinctive taste.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cash in your chips
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Old Bill Fisher finally cashed in his chips last week.
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His attitude-as well as those of other old partners-toward the firm changed once he had cashed in his chips.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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chips and guacamole dip
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Chips of plaster littered the floor of the lobby.
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After the decorators had left there were chips of plaster all over the lobby.
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fish and chips
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Wood chips covered the floor in the carpenter's workshop.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A large number of young men reported eating white bread, chips, meat pies and sweets regularly.
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Ed instructed us how to approach our chips.
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Guiltless Gourmet Baked Not Fried tortilla chips.
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Her blue eyes narrowed to marble chips.
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Inmos Transputers are unique because they combine a processor, communications links and memory on a single chip .
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The company expects the early versions of the chip will go into low-end desktop computers primarily sold outside the United States.
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The process uses small chips of carbon to adsorb the gold dissolved in solution.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ball
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He beat Rush and when tackled chipped the ball behind the line and followed up to score.
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He could chip his golf ball with precision and was an astute reader of tricky greens, especially on long putts.
potato
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They don't peel potatoes , chip them and then deep-fry them; they buy frozen oven chips instead.
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Dinner was usually fried meat and pasty potatoes thrown on a chipped plate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He fell off his bike and chipped his front tooth.
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If you don't load the dishwasher right, it might chip some of the cups.
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She tried to chip the ice off the windshield.
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The ball hit him in the face and chipped a tooth.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He chipped on calmly and got his par-4.
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He could chip his golf ball with precision and was an astute reader of tricky greens, especially on long putts.
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In December he agreed that he would chip in the same amount.
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Last week the defence minister, Sabahattin Cakmakog, chipped in.
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Parents, pupils and staff all chipped in to help collect the cash for a new bus for Eastbourne school.
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They bring a back over some times to chip a guy.