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In intransitive terms the difference between die and chip

is that die is to stop living; to become dead; to undergo death while chip is to become chipped.

In transitive terms the difference between die and chip

is that die is to stop living and undergo (a specified death) while chip is to break small pieces from.

In electronics terms the difference between die and chip

is that die is (plural: dice or dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit while chip is a hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.

As a proper noun Chip is

a diminutive of the male given names Christopher and Charles.

die

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), ).J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture'' (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), page 150, s.v. "death"Vladimir Orel, ''A Handbook of Germanic Etymology (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003).

Verb

  • To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
  • #
  • #* 1839 , Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist , Penguin 1985, page 87:
  • "What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver.
  • #* 2000 , Stephen King, On Writing , Pocket Books 2002, page 85:
  • In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.
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  • #* 1865 , British Medical Journal , 4 Mar 1865, page 213:
  • She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.
  • #* 2007 , Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune , Tor 2007, page 191:
  • "Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb. . ."
  • # :
  • #* 1961 , Joseph Heller, Catch-22 , Simon & Schuster 1999, page 232:
  • Englishmen are dying' for England, Americans are '''dying''' for America, Germans are '''dying''' for Germany, Russians are ' dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.
  • #* 2003 , Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (editors), Prison Nation , Routledge 2003, page 187:
  • Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.
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  • #* 1600 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act III, Scene I:
  • Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die' with mockes, / Which is as bad as ' die with tickling.
  • #* 1830 , Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon , Richards 1854, page 337:
  • And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.
  • # (still current)
  • She died with dignity.
  • To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
  • He died a hero's death.
    They died a thousand deaths.
  • (figuratively) To yearn intensely.
  • * 1598 , (Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing), Act III, Scene II:
  • Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.
  • * 2004 Paul Joseph Draus, Consumed in the city: observing tuberculosis at century's end - Page 168
  • I could see that he was dying, dying' for a cigarette, '''dying''' for a fix maybe, ' dying for a little bit of freedom, but trapped in a hospital bed and a sick body.
  • (idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
  • The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
  • (figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
  • He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
  • (colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
  • If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die .
  • (intransitive, of a, machine) to stop working, to break down.
  • My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
  • (intransitive, of a, computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
  • To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
  • * Spectator
  • letting the secret die within his own breast
  • * Tennyson
  • Great deeds cannot die .
  • To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
  • * Bible, 1 Samuel xxv. 37
  • His heart died within, and he became as a stone.
  • To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
  • to die to pleasure or to sin
  • (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
  • To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
  • (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
  • Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
    Synonyms
    * (to stop living) bite the dust, buy the farm, check out, cross over, expire, succumb, give up the ghost, pass, pass away, pass on, be no more, cease to be, go to meet one's maker, be a stiff, push up the daisies, hop off the twig, kick the bucket, shuffle off this mortal coil, join the choir invisible * See also
    Derived terms
    * be dying for * die away * die down * diehard/die-hard/die hard * die off * die out * do-or-die * the good die young * to die for

    References

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m) (Modern (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (plural: dice) A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. . In: Wikisource . Wikimedia: 2007. § 46.
  • If a die were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;
  • (plural: dies) The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
  • (plural: dies) A device for cutting into a specified shape.
  • A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
  • (plural: dies) A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
  • (plural: dies) An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
  • (electronics) (plural:'' dice ''or dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
  • Any small cubical or square body.
  • * Watts
  • words pasted upon little flat tablets or dies
  • (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
  • * Spenser
  • Such is the die of war.
    Usage notes
    The game of dice is singular. Thus in "Dice is a game played with dice," the first occurrence is singular, the second occurrence is plural. Otherwise, using the plural (m) as a singular instead of (m) is considered incorrect by most authorities, but has come into widespread use.
    Derived terms
    * loaded dice * the die is cast * tool and die * * * * * * * *

    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