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Chipped vs Clipped - What's the difference?

chipped | clipped |

As adjectives the difference between chipped and clipped

is that chipped is having a chip (small piece) or chips missing while clipped is having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.

As verbs the difference between chipped and clipped

is that chipped is past tense of chip while clipped is past tense of clip.

chipped

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having a chip (small piece) or chips missing
    • a chipped plate
  • (automotive) (no comparative or superlative ) having had the engine management system upgraded, usually to increase power

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (chip)

    • clipped

    English

    Alternative forms

    * clipt

    Verb

    (head)
  • (clip)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.
  • (of speech) With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.
  • (informal) Circumcised.
  • * 1999 , Ben Edward Akerley, The X-Rated Bible: An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures , Feral House (1999), ISBN 9780922915552, page 102:
    • After all, Jehovah had instituted the rite of circumcision in which the clipped penis became consecrated to him,
  • *

    • Synonyms

    *(circumcised) see also .