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Cut vs Chip - What's the difference?

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In intransitive terms the difference between cut and chip

is that cut is to change direction suddenly while chip is to become chipped.

In transitive terms the difference between cut and chip

is that cut is to stop or disengage while chip is to break small pieces from.

As nouns the difference between cut and chip

is that cut is an opening resulting from cutting while chip is a small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.

As verbs the difference between cut and chip

is that cut is To incise, to cut into the surface of something.chip is to break into small pieces.

As an adjective cut

is having been cut.

As a proper noun Chip is

a diminutive of the male given names Christopher and Charles.

cut

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (participial adjective) Having been cut .
  • Reduced.
  • The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
    Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
  • (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
  • (rfc-sense) (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
  • (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
  • * 1988', Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", '''' ' 47 (6): 28-34.
  • Or how 'bout Shane DiMora? Could he possibly get rip-roaring cut this time around?
  • * 2010', Bill Geiger, "6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks", ''Reps!'' ' 17 :106
  • That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut , ripped midsection.
  • (informal) Circumcised.
  • (Australia, NZ, slang) Emotionally hurt.
  • Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
  • Removed from a team roster.
  • (NZ) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
  • Synonyms

    * snithe

    Derived terms

    * cut and dried * mad as a cut snake,

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An opening resulting from cutting.
  • Look at this cut on my finger!
  • The act of cutting.
  • He made a fine cut with his sword.
  • The result of cutting.
  • a smooth or clear cut
  • A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
  • a cut for a railroad
  • * Knolles
  • This great cut or ditch Secostris purposed to have made a great deal wider and deeper.
  • A share or portion.
  • The lawyer took a cut of the profits.
  • (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
  • (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
  • The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
  • The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.
  • The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
  • I like the cut of that suit.
  • * Shakespeare
  • with eyes severe and beard of formal cut
  • A slab, especially of meat.
  • That’s our finest cut of meat.
  • (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
  • A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
  • * Washington Irving
  • Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, snapped his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.
  • A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
  • The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.
  • (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
  • A haircut.
  • (graph theory) the partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups
  • A string of railway cars coupled together.
  • An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
  • a book illustrated with fine cuts
  • (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • He'll buy me a cut , forth for to ride.
  • (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
  • A skein of yarn.
  • (Wright)

    Derived terms

    * a cut above * a cut below * boot cut * bowl cut * brush cut * budget cut * crew cut * cut of one's jib * cut-set * direct cut * director's cut * final cut/make the final cut * fine cut * French cut * jump cut/jump-cut * line cut * make the cut * maximum cut * minimum cut * pay cut * power cut * price cut * princess cut * rose cut * shaggy cut * shortcut * s-t cut * tax cut *

    Verb

  • To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
  • #To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
  • #*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • #*:You must cut this flesh from off his breast.
  • #To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
  • #:
  • #*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • #*:Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, / With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way.
  • #To form or shape by cutting.
  • #:
  • #*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • #*:Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, / Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
  • #*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • #*:loopholes cut through thickest shade
  • #To wound with a knife.
  • #*1990 , (Stephen Dobyns), The house on Alexandrine
  • #*:We don't want your money no more. We just going to cut you.
  • #To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
  • #*
  • #*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
  • #To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
  • #:
  • #*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
  • #*:The man was cut to the heart.
  • #To castrate or geld.
  • #:
  • #To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
  • (lb) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
  • *1858 , , (The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table)'', ''The Deacon's Masterpiece , in Chapter XI:
  • *:The panels of white-wood that cuts like cheese, / But lasts like iron for things like these;
  • To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
  • #To separate from prior association; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
  • #:
  • #To reduce, especially intentionally.
  • #:
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot
  • , volume=188, issue=23, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Money just makes the rich suffer , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax.
  • #To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
  • #:
  • #* (1789-1842)
  • #*:An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity.
  • #To ignore as a social snub.
  • #:
  • To cease recording activities.
  • :
  • To remove and place in memory for later use.
  • :
  • (lb) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
  • :
  • (lb) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
  • :
  • *{{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 18, author=Daniel Taylor, work=Guardian Online
  • , title= Manchester City 4 Leicester City 2 , passage=Leicester's response was swift although the referee, Mark Halsey, was generous in the extreme when he awarded the penalty from which Paul Gallagher made it 1-1. Neither Joleon Lescott nor Vieira appeared to make any contact with Dyer as he cut between them.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author= John Vidal
  • , volume=189, issue=10, page=8, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas , passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}
  • To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it. (rfex)
  • (lb) To change direction suddenly.
  • :
  • To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
  • :
  • To write.
  • :
  • To dilute a liquid, usually alcohol.
  • :
  • (lb) To exhibit (a quality).
  • *{{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 25, author=Paul Fletcher, work=BBC
  • , title= Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1) , passage=Arsenal were starting to work up a head of steam and Tractor Boys boss Paul Jewell cut an increasingly frustrated figure on the touchline.}}
  • (lb) To stop or disengage.
  • :
  • Synonyms

    * See

    Troponyms

    * chop, hack, slice, trim

    Derived terms

    * becut * cut a caper * cut a deal * cut a figure * cut a rug / cut the rug * cut a swathe * cut a wide swathe * cut and paste * cut and run * cut both ways * cut capers * cut corners * cut down * cut for someone's size * cut from the same cloth * cut in * cut in line * cut it * cut it close * cut it fine * cut it out * cut like a knife * cut loose * cut off * cut one loose * cut one's coat according to one's cloth * cut one's losses * cut one's teeth * cut oneself * cut out * cut red tape * cut short * cut someone some slack/cut somebody some slack * cut the cheese * cut the mustard * cut the muster * cut the rug * cut to black * cut to the chase * cut to the quick * cut up * cut wind * cutthroat * cutting edge * cutting remark * fish or cut bait * forcut * forecut * fussy cut * have one's work cut out for one * incut * measure twice cut once / measure twice and cut once * offcut * outcut * overcut * undercut

    See also

    * copy * paste

    Statistics

    *

    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.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=September 28 , author=Tom Rostance , title=Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Oxlade-Chamberlain saw his attempted chip well blocked by goalkeeper Costanzo at the start of the second half.}}
  • (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

    See also

    * French fries * fries * potato wedge * 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