Chop vs. Chip: What's the Difference?

To cut by striking with a heavy sharp tool, such as an axe

A small broken or cut off piece, as of wood, stone, or glass.

To shape or form by chopping

A crack or flaw caused by the removal of a small piece.

To cut into small pieces

A small disk or counter used in poker and other games to represent money.

To reduce abruptly or by a large amount

Chips Slang Money.

(Sports) To hit or swing at (a pitched ball) with a short downward stroke.

See microchip.

To make heavy, cutting strokes.

A thin, usually fried slice of food, especially a potato chip

(Archaic) To move roughly or suddenly.

A very small piece of food or candy

To change direction suddenly, as a ship in the wind.

Chips Chiefly British French fries.

The act of chopping.

Wood, palm leaves, straw, or similar material cut and dried for weaving.

A swift, short, cutting blow or stroke.

A fragment of dried animal dung used as fuel.

(Sports) A short downward stroke.

Something worthless.

A piece that has been chopped off, especially a cut of meat, usually taken from the rib, shoulder, or loin and containing a bone.

(Sports) A chip shot.

A short irregular motion of waves.

A trick method of throwing one's opponent in wrestling.

An area of choppy water, as on an ocean.

To chop or cut with an axe or other implement.

The official stamp or seal of a government, company, or individual, especially in China.

To break a small piece from

Quality; class

To break or cut off (a small piece)

A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.

To shape or carve by cutting or chopping

A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.

To implant a microchip in (an organism).

(martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.

To become broken off into small pieces.

Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.

(Sports) To make a chip shot in golf.

(poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.

To cheep, as a bird.

Termination, especially from employment; the sack.

A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.

A woodchopping competition.

A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.

(dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.

A token used in place of cash.

A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.

A sovereign the coin.

A jaw of an animal.

(electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.

A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.

(electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.

The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.

A fried strip of potato of square or rectangular cross-section; a french fry.

An official stamp or seal, as in China and India.

A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes another vegetable; a crisp.

A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.

(sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.

A license or passport that has been sealed.

(curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.

A complete shipment.

A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.

(internet) An IRC channel operator.

A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.

(transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.

(gastronomy) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.

(transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.

A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.

(transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.

(nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.

To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.

(historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.

(poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players. en

Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.

(intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.

(golf) A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.

(intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.

(transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.

(intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.

(transitive) To break small pieces from.

To remove the final character from (a text string).

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.

(obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.

To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.

To chap or crack.

(intransitive) To become chipped.

(nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.

To ante (up).

(obsolete) To twist words.

To fit (an animal) with a microchip.

To converse, discuss, or speak with another.

To contribute.

To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; - often with up.

(also, to chip at) To make fun of.

To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; - usually with off or down.

To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.

To seize or devour greedily; - with up.

To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.

To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.

To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.

To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.

To break or fly off in small pieces.

To interrupt; - with in or out.

A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.

To barter or truck.

A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.

To exchange; substitute one thing for another.

Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.

To purchase by way of truck.

Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; - used contemptuously.

To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.

One of the counters used in poker and other games.

To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.

The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.

A change; a vicissitude.

A small fragment of something broken off from the whole;

The act of chopping; a stroke.

A triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line

A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.

A piece of dried bovine dung

A crack or cleft. See Chap.

A thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

A jaw of an animal; - commonly in the pl. See Chops.

A mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something

A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.

A small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling

The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.

Electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit

Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.

A low running approach shot

A permit or clearance.

The act of chipping something

A small cut of meat including part of a rib

Break off (a piece from a whole);

A tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball

Cut a nick into

A grounder that bounces high in the air

Play a chip shot

Cut into pieces;

Form by chipping;

Move suddenly

Break a small piece off from;

Strike sharply, as in some sports

Cut with a hacking tool

Hit sharply