Chip vs Chit - 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.
A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
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A pert young woman.
A sassy (saucy) or forward young person.
The embryonic growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; a seedling.
(obsolete) An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple.
(intransitive, British, dialect) To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.
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(transitive, British, dialect) To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or to assist germination.
(transitive, British, dialect) To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil.
* 2012 , Growing Your Own Fruit and Veg For Dummies, UK Edition,
A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.
A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the .
(pharmacology) A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a .
(label) A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.
* 2005 , The unofficial, updated Third Edition of the Magic Realm Rules , by Richard Hamblen, Teresa Michelsen and Stephen McKnight
(India, China) A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.
* 1901 , , by Joseph Conrad
(US, slang) A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.
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* 2003 , , The Bone Vault , Scribner, p98:
(US, slang, euphemistic) Alternative to using the vulgarity, shit.
As nouns the difference between chip and chit
is that chip is a small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material while chit is a child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.As verbs the difference between chip and chit
is that chip is to break into small pieces while chit is to sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.As a proper noun Chip
is a diminutive of the male given names Christopher and Charles.As an interjection chit is
alternative to using the vulgarity, shit.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 * chippingchit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . See also (l).Noun
(en noun)- a little chit of a woman
- "These are returns," I said, "quite fit / To me, who nursed you when a chit . / For shame, lay by this envious art; / Is this to act a sister's part?"
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes
Verb
- I have known barley chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth.
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- Gardeners argue among themselves about how necessary chitting is, but I do chit my seed potatoes.
Etymology 3
From chitty from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- 1.4.3 Also on the board, but turned face down at the beginning of the game, are chits' representing treasure sites and sounds and warnings of monsters that may arrive on the map. When characters end a turn in the hex, these '''chits''' are revealed. As characters move around the board, more and more of these ' chits will be revealed, letting the players know where monsters and treasures are to be found.
- He just longed to get away from here and try his luck somewhere else, but for the sake of his sister he hung on and on till he ran himself into debt over his ears—I can tell you. I, myself, could show a handful of his chits for meals and drinks in my drawer.
- And he is cashing in chits for her that Mr. Gore, post-impeachment, never asked him to do.
- Harry would call in a chit with some desk manager who owed him a favor.