Chip vs Smash - What's the difference?
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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.
(games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
* 2002 , Albert H. Moorehead, Hoyle?s Rules of Games ,
(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'', ,
(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,
* 2007 , Elisabeth S. Papazoglou, Aravind Parthasarathy, Bionanotechnology ,
(UK, Ireland, Australia, and, New Zealand) A fried strip of potato of square or rectangular cross-section; a french fry.
(US, Australia, and, New Zealand) A crisp, fried, thin slice of vegetable, usually potato.
(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.
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.
To break into small pieces.
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To break small pieces from.
(transitive, golf, sports) To play a shot hitting the ball predominately upwards rather than forwards.
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(automotive) to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
To become chipped.
To ante (up).
(informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
to contribute.
The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
(British, colloquial) A traffic accident.
(colloquial, entertainment) Something very successful.
* 2012 , Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world'' (in ''The Daily Telegraph , 15 November 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/15/mumford-sons-biggest-band-world]
(tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
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(colloquial, archaic) bankruptcy
To break (something brittle) violently.
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(figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
(figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly.
(US) To deform through continuous pressure.
To be destroyed by being smashed.
(transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
As nouns the difference between chip and smash
is that chip is chromatin immunoprecipitation while smash is the sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.As a verb smash is
to break (something brittle) violently.chip
English
(wikipedia chip)Noun
(en noun)- This cup has a chip in it.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Fig. 4(a) shows a schematic design of the micropump chip .
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- 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].
- Do you want sauce or mayonnaise on your chips ?
- potato chip'', ''tortilla chip
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- chocolate chip
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 * woodchipSee also
* French fries * fries * potato wedge * woodchipVerb
(chipp)- The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch.
- Be careful not to chip the paint.
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.
- This varnish chips easily.
- Everyone needs to chip in £1 for George's leaving collection
Derived terms
* chip in * chipped * chippingsmash
English
Noun
(smashes)- I could hear the screech of the brakes, then the horrible smash of cars colliding.
- The driver and two passengers were badly injured in the smash .
- This new show of mine is sure to be a smash .
- Soundcheck for the band, today, takes place at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. It is late afternoon and while the arena's 17,000 outdoor seats are still empty the four members of Mumford & Sons – prospering British folk band, in the middle of a long tour of Australia, the US and the UK, their newly released album Babel a smash on all fronts – wander to centre stage.
- A smash may not be as pretty as a good half volley, but it can still win points.
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Synonyms
* (sound of a violent impact ): crash * (colloquial: traffic accident ): crash * (colloquial: something very successful ): smash hitVerb
(es)- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.