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Dicing vs Chopping - What's the difference?

dicing | chopping |

As verbs the difference between dicing and chopping

is that dicing is present participle of lang=en while chopping is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between dicing and chopping

is that dicing is a game of dice while chopping is the action by which something is chopped.

As an adjective chopping is

shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other.

dicing

English

Verb

(head)
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • Over the course of two sweltering days of rambling the West Bank, we squeeze through a thicket of visible and imaginary borders, fences, walls, frontiers, barriers, no-go zones. After a year steeped in the oceanic vistas of Arabia, of Africa, such a dicing of landscape into countless micro-turfs makes me dizzy.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A game of dice.
  • A fragment of diced food.
    • bacon dicings

    chopping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action by which something is chopped.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other.
    • a chopping sea
  • (obsolete) stout; large; plump
  • * Elijah Fenton
    • Yet some prolific planet smil'd, / And gave the pair a chopping child