What's the difference between chink and chip?

Chink


Definition:

  • (n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
  • (v. i.) To crack; to open.
  • (v. t.) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
  • (v. t.) To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
  • (n.) A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
  • (n.) Money; cash.
  • (v. t.) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
  • (v. i.) To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is never any chink in her composure – any hint of tension – and while I can't imagine what it must feel like to be so at ease with one's world, I don't think she is faking it.
  • (2) But Real are not giving them a chink to exploit so, eventually, Neymar lobs a ball into the box.
  • (3) It is demonstrated that Fe(3+)- and Fe(2+)-ions are adsorbed in the gap [correction of chink], while Ag(+)-ions are adsorbed in the gap [correction of chink] and axon in the bulbs of the node.
  • (4) It waits, looking out for an opening, for some small chink in the defences she has built up so very carefully.
  • (5) I only saw one chink in Rowland’s impassive armour: his customary nod to the judge, as Mitting left, accompanied by a movement of the lips that looked very like “thank you”.
  • (6) These comments must not go unchallenged and have to be investigated by the FA.” Whelan’s apology had attempted to clarify his feelings on Jewish people, but he appeared to remain unsure if “chink” was an offensive term.
  • (7) A Chinese community leader, Jenny Wong, also said Whelan was condoning racism by saying it is “nothing” to call a Chinese person a “chink”.
  • (8) They included derogatory messages about Smith as a Jew, the South Korean international Kim Bo-kyung, reportedly four other offensive texts, and a reference to Vincent Tan, Cardiff City’s Malaysian owner, as “the Chink”.
  • (9) I was one of the lucky ones – but these days, the chink has been obscured for children in a cloud of cuts; student grants are no more; and those at university are waving at my students from a foreign land.
  • (10) And how these narratives resonate with the public may once again reveal chinks in our financial armour.
  • (11) Their task toughened once Sebastian Larsson, cleverly exploiting a chink of space, lifted a gloriously chipped pass into Borini's path and the Liverpool loanee responded by volleying past Foster.
  • (12) The first chink of light has been spotted between the top three and the chasing pack, a three-point gap chiselled out between Mourinho's team and fourth-placed Everton to suggest a massed scramble towards the summit is thinning out.
  • (13) A chink, the merest pinprick of light, has opened up in the grubby soap opera of Sepp Blatter, Fifa and the future of football.
  • (14) The procedure has been undertaken in nine cases to date where the degree of posterior glottic chink, usually because of a concomitant superior nerve paralysis, was felt to be too great to be adequately managed by Teflon injection.
  • (15) However, he said the word chink is not offensive, and that he used to say it of Chinese people when he was young.
  • (16) For man has closed himself up, till he sees things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."
  • (17) He said: “If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying.
  • (18) They provided their opponents with barely a chink of light until Piqué turned past Iván Córdoba and Júlio César to put the ball into the net, heralding a convulsive last few minutes.
  • (19) If somebody says to a Chinaman: ‘You’re a chink,’ would he be upset about it?
  • (20) The use of Tissucol has particularly been successful in: 1) bilateral cordectomy as, besides avoiding the temporary application of a silactic sheet to matain an open glottic chink, it also prevented webbing.

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.)