Small vs Chip - What's the difference?
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Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.
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(writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
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Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
In a small fashion.
* (William Shakespeare), (w, A Midsummer Night's Dream) , Act I, scene 2, line 49:
In or into small pieces.
* 2009 , Ingrid Hoffman, CBS Early Morning for September 28, 2009 (transcription)
(obsolete) To a small extent.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare), Sonnets , "Lucrece", line 1273
Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
(UK, in the plural) Underclothes.
(obsolete) To make little or less.
To become small; to dwindle.
* Thomas Hardy
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.
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(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.
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(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.
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Adjective
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Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
- A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.
- a small space of time
Synonyms
* (not large or big) little, microscopic, minuscule, minute, tiny; see also * little, wee (Scottish), young * (of written letters) lowercase, minusculeAntonyms
* See also * (not large or big) capital, big, generous (said of an amount of something given), large * adult, grown-up, old * (of written letters) big, capital, majuscule, uppercaseDerived terms
* small arm * small arms * small beer * small calorie * small-cell lung cancer * small change * small claims court * smallclothes * smaller European elm bark beetle * small forward * small fry * smallgoods * smallholder * smallholding * small hours * small intestine * smallish * small-minded * smallmouth * smallmouth bass * smallmouth black bass * smallness * small potatoes * smallpox * smalls * small-scale * small screen * small stuff * smallsword * small talk * small-time * * small wonder * twice as small * twice as small asAdverb
(er)- That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and / you may speak as small as you will.
- That's going to go in there. We've got some chives small chopped as well.
- It small avails my mood.
Derived terms
* writ smallNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* small of the backVerb
(en verb)- And smalled till she was nought at all.
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(wikipedia chip)Noun
(en noun)- This cup has a chip in it.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Fig. 4(a) shows a schematic design of the micropump chip .
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- 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
