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sector
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sector.
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: s?k't?r, IPA(key): /?s?k.t??/
- Rhymes: -?kt?(?)
Noun
sector (plural sectors)
- section
- zone (designated area).
- (geometry) part of a circle, extending to the center
- (computer hardware) fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium (compare to block)
- (military) an area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible
- (military) one of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier
- (science fiction) a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.
- (calculation) an instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge.
- a field of economic activity
- (engineering) A toothed gear whose face is the arc of a circle.
- (motor racing) A fixed, continuous section of the track, such that sectors do not overlap but all sectors make up the whole track.
Derived terms
Related terms
- sect
- section
- segment
Translations
See also
- area of influence
- boot block
- zone of action
Anagrams
- Coster, Ectors, Tresco, corset, coster, escort, recost, rectos, scoter, scrote
Catalan
Noun
sector m (plural sectors)
- sector
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sector.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?k.t?r/
- Hyphenation: sec?tor
- Rhymes: -?kt?r
Noun
sector m (plural sectoren or sectors, diminutive sectortje n)
- sector
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: sektor
Latin
Etymology 1
From sec? (“cut, cut off”) +? -tor.
Noun
sector m (genitive sect?ris, feminine sectr?x); third declension
- One who cuts or cuts off, cutter.
- A purchaser or bidder at a sale of confiscated goods.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- English: sector
- Italian: settore
- Russian: ??????? (séktor)
- Serbo-Croatian: s?ktor / ???????
Etymology 2
From sequor (“follow”) +? -t?.
Verb
sector (present infinitive sect?r? or sect?rier, perfect active sect?tus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- I follow continually, attend, accompany.
- I follow after, pursue, chase.
- I seek after/out
Conjugation
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested for this verb.
References
- sector in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sector in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sector in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- sector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- sector in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Langenscheidt Pocket Latin Dictionary
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /s?k.?to?/
- Hyphenation: sec?tor
Noun
sector m (plural sectores)
- Alternative form of setor
Romanian
Etymology
From French secteur, from Latin sector.
Noun
sector n (plural sectoare)
- sector
Declension
Spanish
Noun
sector m (plural sectores)
- section
- zone
- branch
Derived terms
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chip
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ch?p, IPA(key): /t??p/
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ?ipp (“chip; small piece of wood”), from Old English *?ippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English for?ippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-Germanic *kipp- (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *?eyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kip, keep (“notch; nick; score”), Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop.
The formally similar Old English ?ipp, ?ypp, ?yp (“a beam; log; stock; post”), from Proto-Germanic *kippaz (“log; beam”), whence Old Saxon kip (“post”), Old High German kipfa, chipfa (“axle, stave”) and Old Norse keppr (“cudgel, club”), ultimately from Latin cippus (“stake; pale; post”), is a different, unrelated word.
Noun
chip (plural chips)
- 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.
- 2002, Albert H. Moorehead, Hoyle?s Rules of Games, page 46,
- (slang, dated) A sovereign (the coin).
- (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, InfoWorld, 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.
- 1986 September 1, Tom Moran, Lisa L. Spiegelman, New Chip Said to Contain Seven PC AT Chip Functions, InfoWorld, page 5,
- (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].
- 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,
- (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, especially in the plural) A fried strip of potato of square or rectangular cross-section; a french fry.
- Do you want sauce or mayonnaise on your chips?
- (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes another vegetable; a crisp.
- they made their own potato chips from scratch, he ate a tortilla chip, served with a side of apple chips
- (sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
- (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
- A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
- (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
- (cooking) 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.
- (golf) A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.
Usage notes
In New Zealand and Australia, where the term chip(s) can refer to either french fried potatoes or deep-fried potato slices, the dishes are distinguished as "hot chips" (french fried potatoes) or, in New Zealand, "cold chips" (deep-fried potato slices) when clarity is needed.
Synonyms
- (small piece broken off): flake
- (circuit): IC, integrated circuit, microchip, silicon chip
- (deep-fried or baked slice of vegetable): crisp (UK, Ireland)
- (deep-fried small column of potato): fry (mainly North America), French fries (mainly North America)
- (a receptacle for strawberries): punnet (British, New Zealand, Australia), pottle (New Zealand, southern)
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Catalan: xip
- ? Korean: ? (chip)
Translations
See also
- French fries
- fries
- potato wedge
- woodchip
Etymology 2
From Middle English chippen, from Old English *?ippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English for?ippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-Germanic *kipp- (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ey- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop.
Verb
chip (third-person singular simple present chips, present participle chipping, simple past and past participle chipped)
- (transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.
- (transitive) To break small pieces from.
- Be careful not to chip the paint.
- (transitive, sports) 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.
- 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:
- Koeman identified Southampton’s third as their finest goal of the game. Jack Cork, the most underrated player at a much-lauded club, swept the ball out wide to Tadic, who waited for Cork to run to the back post before chipping the ball across to him to slam in a deserved goal from close range, despite an attempted block by Vito Mannone.
- 2016, Andy Edwards, "VIDEO: San Jose’s Quincy Amarikwa chips, goes upper-90 from 35 yards out", NBCSports.com, 13 March 2016:
- Typically when someone scores a stunning goal this early in the season — it’s only Week 2 — it gets forgotten, or at the very least lost in the shuffle after eight more months of worthy GOTY candidates. Not this year, though, because no one is forgetting Amarikwa chipping Adam Kwarasey from 35 yards out and burying the ball in the top corner.
- 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:
- (transitive, automotive) to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
- (intransitive) To become chipped.
- This varnish chips easily.
- (intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
- (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
- (Britain, transitive, often with "in") to contribute.
- Everyone needs to chip in £1 for George's leaving collection
- (also, to chip at) To make fun of.
Derived terms
- chip in
- chipped
- chipping
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English chip.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??p/
- Hyphenation: chip
- Rhymes: -?p
Noun
chip m (plural chips, diminutive chipje n)
- (electronics, computing) A chip (one-piece circuit or hybrid device containing a circuit and another device).
Derived terms
- microchip
- nanochip
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English chip.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?t??ip]
Noun
chip
- Superseded spelling of csip.
Declension
References
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ç?p?/
Noun
chip m
- Lenited form of cip.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English chip.
Noun
chip m (invariable)
- chip (small electronic component)
Min Nan
Polish
Alternative forms
- czip
Etymology
From English chip, from Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ?ipp (“chip; small piece of wood”), from Old English *?ippian (“to cut; hew”), from Proto-Germanic *kipp- (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *?eyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??ip/
Noun
chip m inan
- (electronics) chip (integrated circuit)
Declension
Derived terms
- (verb) chipowa?
- (adjective) chipowy
Further reading
- chip in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- chip in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From Hungarian kép (“image”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kip/
Noun
chip n (plural chipuri)
- face, likeness
- picture, image
Declension
Synonyms
- fa??
- imagine
Derived terms
- închipui
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English chip.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??ip/, [?t??ip]
Noun
chip m (plural chips)
- chip (circuit)
Derived terms
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