Scrape vs Chip - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between scrape and chip

is that scrape is to draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure while chip is to break into small pieces.

As nouns the difference between scrape and chip

is that scrape is a broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch) while chip is a small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.

As a proper noun Chip is

a diminutive of the male given names Christopher and Charles.

scrape

English

Verb

To draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.

Her fingernails scraped across the blackboard, making a shrill sound.

Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife.

To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.

She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.

To barely manage to achieve.

I scraped a pass in the exam.

To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.

Just use whatever you can scrape together.

(computing) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.

To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.

He scraped and saved until he became rich.

* Shakespeare

[Spend] their scraping fathers' gold.

To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.

To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.

To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down .

(Macaulay)

Synonyms

* (draw an object along while exerting pressure) grate, scratch, drag * (injure by scraping) abrade, chafe, graze

Derived terms

* bow and scrape * scrape by * scrape off * scrape past * scrape through * scraper

Noun

(en noun)

A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.

A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.

He got in a scrape with the school bully.

An awkward set of circumstances.

I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.

(British, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.

* 1972, in U.S. Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Abuse of psychiatry for political repression in the Soviet Union. Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, second session , United States Government Printing Office, page 127,

It’s quite possible, in view of the diagnosis ‘danger of miscarriage’, that they might drag me off, give me a scrape and then say that the miscarriage began itself.

* 1980, John Cobb, Babyshock: A Mother’s First Five Years , Hutchinson, page 232,

In expert hands abortion nowadays is almost the same as having a scrape (D & C) and due to improved techniques such as suction termination, and improved lighter anaesthetic, most women feel no worse than having a tooth out.

* 1985, Beverley Raphael, The Anatomy of Bereavement: a handbook for the caring professions , Routledge, ISBN 0415094542, page 236,

The loss is significant to the woman and will be stated as such by her. For her it is not “nothing,” “just a scrape ,” or “not a life.” It is the beginning of a baby. Years later, she may recall it not just as a miscarriage but also as a baby that was lost.

* 1999, David Jenkins, Listening to Gynaecological Patients\ Problems , Springer, ISBN 1852331097, page 16,

17.Have you had a scrape or curettage recently?

A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

* 1948, in Behaviour: An International Journal of Comparative Ethology , E. J. Brill, page 103,

We knew from U. Weidmann’s work (1956) that Black-headed Gulls could be prevented from laying by offering them eggs on the empty scrape veil before […]

* 2000, Charles A. Taylor, The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia , Kingfisher Publications, ISBN 0753452693, page 85,

The plover lays its eggs in a scrape' on the ground. ¶ […] ¶ Birds’ nests can be little more than a ' scrape in the ground or a delicate structure of plant material, mud, and saliva.

* 2006, Les Beletsky, Birds of the World , Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0801884292, page 95,

Turkey females place their eggs in a shallow scrape in a hidden spot on the ground. Young are born ready to leave the nest and feed themselves (eating insects for their first few weeks).

Synonyms

* (injury ): abrasion, graze * (fight ): altercation, brawl, fistfight, fight, fisticuffs, punch-up, scuffle * (awkward set of circumstances ): bind, fix, mess, pickle * See also

Quotations

* 2001, Carolyn Cooke, The Bostons , Houghton Mifflin Books, ISBN 0618017682, page 172–173, *: He could hear deer moo in the woods, smell their musk, spot a scrape in a birch tree twenty feet away. * 2005, Dragan Vujic, Hunting Farm Country Whitetails , iUniverse, ISBN 0595359841, page 58, *: Female whitetails periodically investigate scrapes' created by specific bucks. As the doe approaches estrus and becomes receptive to breeding, she will urinate in a ' scrape as a sharp signal to the buck that she is ready for him.

Derived terms

* bread and scrape

Anagrams

* English transitive verbs

chip

English

(wikipedia chip)

Noun

(en noun)

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.

(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'', , 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.

(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].

(UK, Ireland, Australia, and, New Zealand) A fried strip of potato of square or rectangular cross-section; a french fry.

Do you want sauce or mayonnaise on your chips ?

(US, Australia, and, New Zealand) A crisp, fried, thin slice of vegetable, usually potato.

potato chip'', ''tortilla chip

(sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.

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(curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.

A dried piece of dung used as fuel.

(New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.

(gastronomy) 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.

Synonyms

* (small piece broken off) flake * (circuit) IC, integrated circuit, microchip, silicon chip * (baked piece of vegetable) crisp (qualifier) * (fried strip of potato) fry]] (mainly US), French fries (mainly US), [[freedom fries, freedom fry (US) * (a receptacle for strawberries) punnet (qualifier) * (a receptacle for strawberries) pottle (qualifier)

Derived terms

* anti-chip * basket of chips * biochip * blue chip * cash in one's chips * chip butty * chip off the old block * chippy * chip-shop * chip shot * chip and PIN * chipboard * chip leader * chipmaker * a chip off the old block * chippy * chipset * chip shop * chocolate chip * Clipper chip * fish and chips * have a chip on one's shoulder * lab on a chip * let the chips fall where they may * memory chip * microchip * potato chip * silicon chip * system on chip * tortilla chip * when the chips are down * woodchip

Verb

(chipp)

To break into small pieces.

The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch.

To break small pieces from.

Be careful not to chip the paint.

(transitive, golf, sports) To play a shot hitting the ball predominately upwards rather than forwards.

* 2014 , , " 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.

(automotive) to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.

To become chipped.

This varnish chips easily.

To ante (up).

(informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.

to contribute.

Everyone needs to chip in £1 for George's leaving collection

Derived terms

* chip in * chipped * chipping