What's the difference between chip and piece?

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.)

Piece


Definition:

  • (n.) A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces.
  • (n.) A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.
  • (n.) Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance
  • (n.) A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary.
  • (n.) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece.
  • (n.) A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings.
  • (n.) A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.
  • (n.) An individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt.
  • (n.) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.
  • (n.) A castle; a fortified building.
  • (v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out.
  • (v. t.) To unite; to join; to combine.
  • (v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
  • (2) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
  • (3) That piece was placed on the slide and embedded with a mixture of agar and antiserum.
  • (4) Originally from Pyongyang, the tour guide explains that a “merited artist” from Mansudae, North Korea’s biggest art studio in Pyongyang, was responsible for the main piece, but that it took 63 artists almost two years to complete.
  • (5) Each daughter merozoite receives a branch or piece of the parent organelle.
  • (6) Heads you 'own it' Ian Read, the Scottish-born accountant who runs the biggest drug firm in the US carries in his pocket a special gold coin, about the size and weight of a £2 piece.
  • (7) A modification of a previously described curved ruler, the current model has a hinge for greater ease of maneuverability and a "T" piece on one end to facilitate measurement and marking of both poles of the muscle without repositioning the ruler.
  • (8) DNA sequence analysis of a 3.8-kb genomic piece allowed identification of (i) an open reading frame (ORF) with striking homology to the previously identified D. melanogaster ORF and (ii) conserved sequence elements of possible regulatory relevance within and flanking the second intron.
  • (9) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
  • (10) Dean Baquet, the managing editor in question, does admit in the piece that walking out was not perhaps the best thing for a senior editor like him to do.
  • (11) Criminal court charges leave me no choice but to resign as a magistrate Read more “This is a terrible piece of legislation introduced through the back door,” he wrote.
  • (12) The voltage trace is then analysed with a piece of transparent paper, on which lines corresponding to solutions of the diffusion equation convert the time axis of the voltage trace into a concentration axis.
  • (13) Sculthorpe’s catalogue consists of more than 350 pieces ranging from solos to orchestral works and opera.
  • (14) Piccoli followed that up with an opinion piece for Fairfax Media on Thursday in which said the SES model never applied to public schools and was not properly targeted to student needs.
  • (15) I still find that trying to weave together into a visual narrative and cutting together two pieces of a film – two different images.
  • (16) Each of the mice received 3 pieces of explants on the s.c. space in both of their flanks.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No shake: Donald Trump snubs Angela Merkel during photo op The piece of pantomime was in stark contrast to the visit of Theresa May in January.
  • (18) During each test period one group chewed a combination of one piece sorbitol and one piece sucrose flavored gum five times per day, the second group correspondingly chewed xylitol and sucrose flavored gum, while the third group served as a no hygiene control group.
  • (19) Pieces of spleen of both groups were fixed in formalin and embedded in paraffin.
  • (20) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.