Punnet vs Chip - What's the difference?
punnet | chip | Synonyms |
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries.
* 1904 , Arthur George Liddon Rogers, The Business Side of Agriculture , 2010, Forgotten Books,
* 1917 , Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher, The Strawberry in North America: History, Origin, Botany, and Breeding ,
* 1933 , South Australian Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Journal of Agriculture, South Australia , Volume 36,
* 1982 , New Zealand Department of Agriculture, New Zealand journal of agriculture ,
* 2005 , , The Complete Burke's Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets ,
* 2007 May 13, Amelia Hill, ,
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.
Chip is a synonym of punnet.
As nouns the difference between punnet and chip
is that punnet is a small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries while chip is a small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.As a verb chip is
to break into small pieces.As a proper noun Chip is
a diminutive of the male given names Christopher and Charles.punnet
English
(wikipedia punnet)Noun
(en noun)page 85:
- Thus, according to the same Year-Book'', a sea-kale punnet''' measures 8 in. in diameter at the top and 7½ in. at the bottom, being 2 in. deep, while a radish '''punnet''' is 8 in. in diameter and 1 in. deep, if to hold six “hands,” or 9 in. by 1 in. for twelve “hands.” A mushroom '''punnet''' is 7 in. by 1 in., while a salading ' punnet is 5 in. by 2 in.
pages 77-78:
- Another type of splint basket, called a punnet', was used in the strawberry trade of New York City between 1815 and 1850.' Punnets and pottles found little favor except in the vicinity of Boston and New York and were soon discarded for more convenient and less expensive packages.
page 1292:
- Most of the fruit for market is picked and sold in punnets , but for jam making buckets are used, similar to the raspberry bucket.
page 13:
- Early this season, Ross Lill got together with a plastics firm to produce a flat tray to replace the commonly used punnet .
page 408:
- However we recommend, particularly in cooler climates, sowing tomato seeds into a seed tray or punnet and allowing the seedlings to grow before they are transplanted into the garden.
Forget superfoods, you can?t beat an apple a day:
- ‘But rather than spend £5 on a small punnet of exotic berries, a family would be better off buying regular and larger quantities of fresh fruit and vegetables from their local market.’
Synonyms
* (receptacle for strawberries) chip (qualifier), pottlechip
English
(wikipedia chip)Noun
(en noun)- This cup has a chip in it.
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.
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.
page 38,
- Fig. 4(a) shows a schematic design of the micropump chip .
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].
- 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