What's the difference between chic and chip?

Chic


Definition:

  • (n.) Good form; style.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
  • (2) "The rise of trainers and slip-ons, the Birkenstock … Certain designers are shifting our perception of chic," she says.
  • (3) At the Forum Rodgers and Chic will be part of a lineup that includes DJs past and present, from Studio 54 legend Nicky Siano to Chicago house star Derrick Carter.
  • (4) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.
  • (5) La Perla apparently thought its chic customers – who drop hundreds of dollars on high-status underthings – would relate to, or admire, such a vision.
  • (6) Squeaky-clean Leona Lewis has covered Trent Reznor's hara-kiri-themed treatise Hurt, Beyoncé pre-empted Ke$ha on last year's Rather Die Young, and the Lynchian pretend-we're-dead poise of Lana "Born To Die" Del Rey couldn't be more cadaver chic if she started shaking with rigor mortis, maggots spilling from her eyeballs.
  • (7) This anarchic spirit was often misunderstood by readers, many of whom mistook her Catholic chic, her militantly anti-humanist fictional aesthetic and her formal elegance for the rightwing misanthropy of an Evelyn Waugh.
  • (8) The restaurant has an industrial chic feel, and a great atmosphere any day of the week.
  • (9) The hit single "Around the World" displayed a then-unfashionable love of disco which attracted the attention of Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers.
  • (10) Surroundings are chic but comfortable, children are welcome, staff are friendly, burgers are from traceable Scottish beef and start at £5.75, chips are thick and homemade, and they play old soul and r'n'b.
  • (11) It’s operated by a young, talented photographer called Bheki Dube and his influence is everywhere – the hostel decor is fantastic – think industrial-chic warehouse apartment with lots of quirky touches.
  • (12) Tobey Maguire fans – and there are many vocal and vehement ones – will insist that no one can replace the king of geek chic in the Spider suit, but they may come to accept that if anyone can, it's Garfield.
  • (13) Abo Rabieh is part of a renaissance of the Syrian art scene in recent years, with a steady stream of works appearing in chic galleries in Paris, London and Dubai.
  • (14) But while graffiti artists have benefited from the radical chic factor, the beau monde never hired street vendors to give them some rebellious cool.
  • (15) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
  • (16) Six chic doubles, all but one with room for an extra bed, are tacked onto an old farmstead.
  • (17) It is not hard to imagine her, possibly wearing her stilettos, at the wheel of a heavy vehicle: chic but tough, she's a woman who bridges the divide between cosmopolitan and traditional Africa.
  • (18) The film could be said to mark the moment when the favela – previously a byword for criminality, sickness and moral depravity – started to become “chic”.
  • (19) So think twice before booking that flight (unless you're going for its other assets – its chilled-out beach towns , chic resorts , and unspoilt interior .
  • (20) A woman who sports Chanel dreams of being a chic Parisian demoiselle.

Chip


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
  • (v. t.) To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
  • (v. t.) To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.
  • (v. i.) To break or fly off in small pieces.
  • (n.) A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.
  • (n.) A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.
  • (n.) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
  • (n.) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.
  • (n.) One of the counters used in poker and other games.
  • (n.) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous work has shown that corticocancellous bone chips placed in a titanium chamber with an arteriovenous vascular pedicle will result in a pre-formed vascularized bone graft.
  • (2) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
  • (3) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
  • (4) Not just this trip, there's the constant, negative criticism over the years chipping away.
  • (5) We are prepared to be honest with people and say that we will all need to chip in a little more.” The party’s health spokesman, Norman Lamb, said: “The NHS was once the envy of the world and this pledge is the first step in restoring it to where it should be.
  • (6) Lovely chip behind the defense on Green's goal, and almost sprung the defense with a clever free kick to play in Dempsey with time running out.
  • (7) At the other end the first meaningful touch from Castillo sees him attempt an ambitious chip to finish a rare US break.
  • (8) Critics of Rouhani’s policy of rapprochement with the international community inside Iran can turn to the supreme leader and say there wasn’t really much need for that softer tone because now we have more bargaining chips in our hands.
  • (9) Eamonn Forde of the music business website Music Ally says: "I think the change would just be chipping at the edges at first, but then you see things like a new generation of artists who are just huge on YouTube, who don't make the charts because they don't see themselves as having to put out singles, they make their money online.
  • (10) The second, the normal tubercle for insertion of the transverse ligament of the atlas, may look like a separate ossicle or a chip fracture.
  • (11) Cameron put all of his betting chips on what seemed to be the party's trump card: the "vote for us, we're tough on migration and tough on migrants" strategy.
  • (12) Ninety-two patients with tendon rupture or chip fracture were treated by splinting, and 42 percent of them had a decreased range of motion, mostly of a minor degree, but only 18 percent stated complaints at the follow-up examination.
  • (13) "I set out to create chips that used low-energy technology and that has allowed me to develop devices that can do all their data crunching on site.
  • (14) This included estimation of the furthest distance that the cooling fluid, using coloured water, and the bone chips of a dry petrous temporal bone can be thrown, and the spread of the fine dust produced by the drilling using a staph.
  • (15) However, in December, a concert was staged in Chipping Norton to settle the debt.
  • (16) The treatment consisted of bolting the capitular epiphysis (head) of the femur with a homologous bone chip.
  • (17) Steps for using a plastic chip to identify a removable prosthesis are described.
  • (18) Simon chips in: "I'm a single parent with a daughter, and the only things I can get are temporary contracts".
  • (19) Now Alex Salmond, the SNP’s once and future king has been enjoying fish, chips and pink champagne with the editor of the New Statesman, Jason Cowley .
  • (20) The pharmacokinetics of CHIP was determined following intraperitoneal (i.p.)