Chiplike vs Flake - What's the difference?
chiplike | flake |
Resembling or characteristic of a chip (fragment of stone etc.).
* 1982 , Gordon Randolph Willey, Augustus Ledyard Smith, Jeremy A Sabloff, Excavations at Seibal, Department of Peten, Guatemala
* 1988 , Eudora Welty, Moon Lake'', in ''Morgana: Two Stories from “The Golden Apples” ,
Resembling or characteristic of a chip (damaged area of a surface where a small piece has broken off).
* 2000 , John Cadick, Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer, Dennis Neitzel, Electrical Safety Handbook ,
(US) Resembling or characteristic of a chip (thin, crisp, baked piece of vegetable).
* 2003 , Dana Carpender, How I Gave Up My Low-Fat Diet and Lost 40 Pounds..and How You Can Too ,
* 2004 , , The Pursuit of Alice Thrift ,
* 2008 , Bill Goodwin, Frommer?s South Pacific ,
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) Resembling or characteristic of a chip (wedge of fried potato).
* 1987 , William F Talburt, Ora Smith, Science
Resembling or characteristic of a chip (electronic circuit fabricated on substrate).
* 1992 , Daniel L Alkon, Memory?s voice: deciphering the brain-mind code
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, paint, or fish.
(archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
(informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
To break or chip off in a flake.
(colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
(technical) To store an item such as rope in layers
(Ireland, slang) to hit (another person).
(UK) Dogfish.
(Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
* 1999 , R. Shotton, , Case studies of the management of elasmobranch fisheries , Part 1,
* 2007 , Archie Gerzee, WOW! Tales of a Larrikin Adventurer ,
* 2007 , Lyall Robert Ford, 101 ways to Improve Your Health ,
(UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
* English Husbandman
(nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
As a adjective chiplike
is resembling or characteristic of a chip (fragment of stone etc).As a noun flake is
a loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, paint, or fish or flake can be (uk) dogfish or flake can be (uk|dialect) a paling; a hurdle.As a verb flake is
to break or chip off in a flake.chiplike
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The plaster itself was light gray in color and contained small, broken, or chiplike stones...
page 97,
- The Morgana girls pulled the orphans? hands and dragged them in, or pushed suddenly from behind, and finally the orphans took hold of one another and waded forward in a body, singing “Good Morning” with their stiff, chiplike lips.
page 2.35,
- Scratches, Nicks and Snags (Figs 2.26, 2.35, 2.36). Angular tears, notches, or chiplike injuries in the surface of the rubber caused by sharp objects such as wire, pointed tools, staples. or other similar sharp-edged hazards.
page 226,
- Psyllie Snacks : I know these sound strange, but this chiplike snack made from psyllium fiber—the same fiber used in Metamucil—is remarkably good. Remember that they?re fiber, and go easy!
page 55,
- which broke whatever final layer of ice needed melting with these two strangers in front of us, their eyebrows pierced and their fingertips stained orange from some triangular chiplike snack they were sharing.
page 93,
- Puri'' is a soft, puffy bread, and ''papadam is round, crispy, and chiplike .
- ...the chemical structure required for the generation of chiplike flavor during deep fat frying of methionine is specific.
- Workers have begun to grow cultured neurons on chiplike matrix structures.
flake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.
- flakes of dandruff
- She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action.
Verb
- The paint flaked off after only a year.
- He said he'd come and help, but he flaked .
- The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment.
Derived terms
* flake off * flake outEtymology 2
A name given to dogfish to improve its marketability as a food, perhaps from etymology 1.Noun
(-)page 746,
- Larger shark received about 10%/kg less than those in the 4-6 kg range. Most of the Victorian landed product is wholesaled as carcasses on the Melbourne Fish Market where it is sold to fish and chip shops, the retail sector and through restaurants as ‘flake ’.
page 141,
- The local fish shop sold a bit of flake (shark) but most people were too spoiled to eat shark. The main item on the Kiwi table was still snapper, and there was plenty of them, caught by the Kiwis themselves, so no shortage whatsoever.
page 45,
- Until recently, deep-sea fish were considered to have insignificant levels of mercury but even these now contain higher levels than they used to, so you should also avoid the big fish like tuna, swordfish, and flake (shark) that are highest up the food chain.
Etymology 3
Compare Icelandic flaki''?, ''fleki''?, Danish ''flage'', Dutch ''vlaak .Noun
(en noun)- You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer.
