Strip vs Chip - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between strip and chip

is that strip is to milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk while chip is to break small pieces from.

In intransitive terms the difference between strip and chip

is that strip is to fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut while chip is to become chipped.

As a proper noun Chip is

a diminutive of the male given names Christopher and Charles.

strip

English

Etymology 1

From alteration of

Noun

(countable, uncountable) Material in long, thin pieces.

* , chapter=19

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}

A comic strip.

A landing strip.

A strip steak.

A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.

(fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.

(UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.

Striptease.

(mining) A trough for washing ore.

The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

(Farrow)

Derived terms

* bimetal strip * clip strip * comic strip * electronic strip * landing strip * * nature strip * rubbing strip * strip cartoon * strip mall

Etymology 2

From (etyl)

Verb

To remove or take away.

Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.

(usually) To take off clothing.

* {{quote-news

, date = 21 August 2012 , first = Ed , last = Pilkington , title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true , page = , passage = The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip , threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."}}

To perform a striptease.

To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.

* Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 23

They stripped Joseph out of his coat.

* Macaulay

opinions which no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown

* The robbers stripped Norm of everything he owned.

* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped ; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip' it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".}}'2013 , Paul Harris, ''Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession'' (in
The Guardian , 19 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/19/lance-armstrong-legal-challenges-confession]

After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the man stripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.

To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.

The thread is stripped .

To remove the thread or teeth from (a screw, nut, or gear).

The screw is stripped .

To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.

To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.

(bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)

To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).

To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.

(television) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.

(agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.

(obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

* Chapman

when first they stripped the Malean promontory

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stripped him.

To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.

To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

Synonyms

* deprive * peel * uncover

Quotations

* (English Citations of "strip")

Derived terms

* strip away * strip down * strip off * striptease * stripped down * stripper

References

* OED 2nd edition 1989 * Funk&Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary

External links

* (wikipedia "strip") *

Anagrams

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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

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