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Chipping

/ˈtʃɪpɪŋ/

To chop or cut into small pieces.

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📖 Definitions of "Chipping"

verb

1
To chop or cut into small pieces.
"The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch."
2
To break small pieces from.
"Be careful not to chip the paint."
3
To play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards rather than forwards. In association football specifically, when the shot is a shot on goal, the opposing goalkeeper may be the direct object of the verb, rather than the ball.
4
To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.

🔄 Synonyms of "Chipping"

2 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
chipnoun	A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
splinteringnoun	The process or result of something being splintered.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Chipping"

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Word	Definition
splinteringnoun	The process or result of something being splintered.
shreddingnoun	The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.
scalingnoun	The act of one who scales or climbs.
sparrownoun	The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
nortonnoun	A city, the county seat of Norton County, Kansas, United States.
chippagenoun	(anthropology) A pattern of chipping, as seen in stone tools.
spallingnoun	Any process that spalls a surface, or the damage that results from that process: spallation.
scablingnoun	(archaic, rare) A fragment or chip of stone.
spallnoun	(countable) A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.
quarryingnoun	The extraction of material from a quarry.
fleaknoun	A small, light piece that is only loosely joined to something else, and which has a tendency to detach.
piecemeal	(idiomatic) Made or done in pieces or one stage at a time.
cuttingnoun	(countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut.
flakingnoun	A piece of flaked material.
woodchippingnoun	The mechanized conversion of wood (especially trunks and branches of felled trees) to woodchips.
chisellingnoun	A piece of work produced using a chisel.
chiselingnoun	Alternative form of chiselling. [A piece of work produced using a chisel.]
scrapnoun	(uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
woodchipnoun	A small mechanically produced piece (chip) of wood, generally from 0.5 to 10 cm in diameter, used primarily as raw material for pulp, paper and construction boards, as well as fuel and mulch.
chunkingnoun	(psychology) A strategy for making more efficient use of short-term memory by recoding information.