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tip | chip |

In transitive terms the difference between tip and chip

is that tip is to deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips while chip is to break small pieces from.

In intransitive terms the difference between tip and chip

is that tip is to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; to become unbalanced while chip is to become chipped.

As a proper noun Chip is

a diminutive of the male given names Christopher and Charles.

tip

English

Etymology 1

Circa 1225. Not recorded in Old English or Old Norse, but apparently cognate with Dutch tip, East Frisian tip, Danish tip, Swedish tipp. Perhaps cognate with Old English . Compare Albanian .

Noun

(en noun)
  • The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
  • * 1848 , (Anne Bronte), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall :
    • When he woke up, about half an hour after, he called it to him again, but Dash only looked sheepish and wagged the tip of his tail.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
  • A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
  • (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
  • A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
  • A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
  • Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
    • (Webster 1913)
    Synonyms
    *(extreme end of something) extremity

    Verb

    (tipp)
  • To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
  • * 1598 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act V:
    • I thinke he thinkes vpon the sauage bull: / Tush, feare not man, wee'll tip thy hornes with gold, / And all Europa shall reioyce at thee [...].
  • * Hudibras
    • truncheon tipped with iron head
  • * Thomson
    • Tipped with jet, / Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.

    Etymology 2

    Possibly from Scandinavian, or a special use of Etymology 1.

    Verb

    (tipp)
  • To knock over; to make fall down, to overturn.
  • To fall over.
  • To be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; to become unbalanced.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two [...].
  • (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
  • To dump (refuse).
  • (US) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
  • * 1993 , ”:
    • I tip my 40 to your memory.
  • To deflect with one?s fingers, especially one?s fingertips
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 28 , author=Jon Smith , title=Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Lampard was replaced by Kalou but the substitute immediately gave the ball to Jonas, whose 25-yard curler was tipped wide by Cech.}}
    Derived terms
    * tip off * tip one's hand * tip one's hat * tippable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
  • An act of tipping up or tilting.
  • (UK, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple ); a dump.
  • * 1972 May 18, Jon Tinker, Must we waste rubbish?'', '' , page 389,
    • As the tip slowly squashes under its own weight, bacteria rot away the organic matter, mainly anaerobically with the generation of methane.
  • * 2009 , Donna Kelly, 'Don't dump on Hepburn's top tip'], [http://www.hepburnadvocate.com.au/, The Hepburn Advocate, Fairfax Digital
    • When I was a kid I used to love going to the tip .
  • * 2009 , Rother District Council, Rother District Council Website
    • There are two rubbish tip s in Rother.
  • * 2009 , Beck Vass, 'Computer collectibles saved from the tip' The New Zealand Herald, Technology section, APN Holdings NZ Ltd
    • Computer collectibles saved from the tip
  • (UK, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
  • (colloquial) A very untidy place.
  • The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.}}

    Etymology 3

    Of uncertain origin; apparently cognate with (etyl) tippen, (etyl) tippen, (etyl) tippa.

    Verb

    (tipp)
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • A third rogue tips me by the elbow.

    Noun

    (tips)

    • Etymology 4

    Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain orign.

    Verb

    (tipp)
  • To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=2 citation , passage=Mother
    • Derived terms
    * tipper * tipping

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.
  • * 1897 , Bram Stoker, Dracula :
    • A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam [...] had left for his work at five o'clock that morning.
    Synonyms
    * cumshaw * baksheesh

    Etymology 5

    Probably from , or a combination of the two.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
  • A piece of advice.
    • Derived terms
    * hot tip * stock tip * tip-off * tip sheet * tipster
    Descendants
    * German: (l)

    Verb

    (tipp)
  • To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
    • Derived terms
    * tip off

    Etymology 6

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (AAVE) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
  • (AAVE) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.

    • References

    * (English Citations of "tip")

    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

    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