Chop vs. Chip
Chop and Chip Definitions
Chop
To cut by striking with a heavy sharp tool, such as an axe
Chop wood.
Chip
A small broken or cut off piece, as of wood, stone, or glass.
Chop
To shape or form by chopping
Chop a hole in the ice.
Chip
A crack or flaw caused by the removal of a small piece.
Chop
To cut into small pieces
Chop onions and carrots.
Chop up meat.
Chip
A small disk or counter used in poker and other games to represent money.
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Chop
To reduce abruptly or by a large amount
Chopped off his sentence midway.
Are going to chop expenses.
Chip
Chips Slang Money.
Chop
(Sports) To hit or swing at (a pitched ball) with a short downward stroke.
Chip
See microchip.
Chop
To make heavy, cutting strokes.
Chip
A thin, usually fried slice of food, especially a potato chip
Ate chips with her sandwich.
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Chop
(Archaic) To move roughly or suddenly.
Chip
A very small piece of food or candy
Made cookies with chocolate chips.
Chop
To change direction suddenly, as a ship in the wind.
Chip
Chips Chiefly British French fries.
Chop
The act of chopping.
Chip
Wood, palm leaves, straw, or similar material cut and dried for weaving.
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Chop
A swift, short, cutting blow or stroke.
Chip
A fragment of dried animal dung used as fuel.
Chop
(Sports) A short downward stroke.
Chip
Something worthless.
Chop
A piece that has been chopped off, especially a cut of meat, usually taken from the rib, shoulder, or loin and containing a bone.
Chip
(Sports) A chip shot.
Chop
A short irregular motion of waves.
Chip
A trick method of throwing one's opponent in wrestling.
Chop
An area of choppy water, as on an ocean.
Chip
To chop or cut with an axe or other implement.
Chop
The official stamp or seal of a government, company, or individual, especially in China.
Chip
To break a small piece from
Chip a tooth.
Chop
Quality; class
First chop.
Chip
To break or cut off (a small piece)
Chip ice from the window.
Chop
A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.
Chip
To shape or carve by cutting or chopping
Chipped her name in the stone.
Chop
A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.
Chip
To implant a microchip in (an organism).
Chop
(martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
A karate chop.
Chip
To become broken off into small pieces.
Chop
Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
Chip
(Sports) To make a chip shot in golf.
Chop
(poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop.
Chip
To cheep, as a bird.
Chop
Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
Chip
A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
Chop
A woodchopping competition.
Chip
A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
This cup has a chip in it.
Chop
(dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.
Chip
A token used in place of cash.
Chop
A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
Chip
A sovereign the coin.
Chop
A jaw of an animal.
Chip
(electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
Chop
A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
Chip
(electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.
Chop
The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
East Chop; West Chop
Chip
A fried strip of potato of square or rectangular cross-section; a french fry.
Do you want sauce or mayonnaise on your chips?
Chop
An official stamp or seal, as in China and India.
Chip
A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes another vegetable; a crisp.
They made their own potato chips from scratch, he ate a tortilla chip, served with a side of apple chips
Chop
A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
Silk of the first chop
Chip
(sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
Chop
A license or passport that has been sealed.
Chip
(curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
Chop
A complete shipment.
A chop of tea
Chip
A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
Chop
(internet) An IRC channel operator.
Chip
A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
Chop
(transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
Chop wood; chop an onion
Chip
(gastronomy) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
Chocolate chip
Chop
(transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
Chop off his head.
Chip
A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
Chop
(transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
Chip
(nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
Chop
To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
Chip
(historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
Chop
(poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players. en
Chip
Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
Chop
(intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
Chip
(golf) A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.
Chop
(intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
Chip
(transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.
The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch.
Chop
(intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
Chip
(transitive) To break small pieces from.
Be careful not to chip the paint.
Chop
To remove the final character from (a text string).
Chip
To play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards rather than forwards. In association football specifically, when the shot is a shot on goal, the opposing goalkeeper may be the direct object of the verb, rather than the ball.
Chop
(obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.
Chip
To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
Chop
To chap or crack.
Chip
(intransitive) To become chipped.
This varnish chips easily.
Chop
(nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
The wind chops about.
Chip
To ante (up).
Chop
(obsolete) To twist words.
Chip
To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
Chop
To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
Chip
To contribute.
Everyone needs to chip in £1 for George's leaving collection
Chop
To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; - often with up.
Chip
(also, to chip at) To make fun of.
Chop
To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; - usually with off or down.
Chop off your hand, and it to the king.
Chip
To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
Chop
To seize or devour greedily; - with up.
Upon the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopped up.
Chip
To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
Chop
To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.
Chip
To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.
Chop
To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
Out of greediness to get both, he chops at the shadow, and loses the substance.
Chip
To break or fly off in small pieces.
Chop
To interrupt; - with in or out.
This fellow interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.
Chip
A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.
Chop
To barter or truck.
Chip
A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.
Chop
To exchange; substitute one thing for another.
We go on chopping and changing our friends.
Chip
Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
Chop
To purchase by way of truck.
Chip
Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; - used contemptuously.
Chop
To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.
Chip
One of the counters used in poker and other games.
Chop
To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.
Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge.
Chip
The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
Chop
A change; a vicissitude.
Chip
A small fragment of something broken off from the whole;
A bit of rock caught him in the eye
Chop
The act of chopping; a stroke.
Chip
A triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
Chop
A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.
Chip
A piece of dried bovine dung
Chop
A crack or cleft. See Chap.
Chip
A thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
Chop
A jaw of an animal; - commonly in the pl. See Chops.
Chip
A mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
Chop
A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.
Chip
A small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling
Chop
The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.
Chip
Electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
Chop
Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.
Chip
A low running approach shot
Chop
A permit or clearance.
Chip
The act of chipping something
Chop
A small cut of meat including part of a rib
Chip
Break off (a piece from a whole);
Her tooth chipped
Chop
A tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball
Chip
Cut a nick into
Chop
A grounder that bounces high in the air
Chip
Play a chip shot
Chop
Cut into pieces;
Chop wood
Chop meat
Chip
Form by chipping;
They chipped their names in the stone
Chop
Move suddenly
Chip
Break a small piece off from;
Chip the glass
Chip a tooth
Chop
Strike sharply, as in some sports
Chop
Cut with a hacking tool
Chop
Hit sharply
