What's the difference between chip and shard?

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.)

Shard


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant; chard.
  • (n.) A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.
  • (n.) The hard wing case of a beetle.
  • (n.) A gap in a fence.
  • (n.) A boundary; a division.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Numerous shards of ochronotic cartilage were embedded in the synovium.
  • (2) Filo pastry contains very little fat itself but relies on fat being added later in between incredibly fine sheets, allowing them to separate during cooking, and so shatter in the mouth into fine delicate shards.
  • (3) What the Qataris own in Britain • HSBC Tower, the bank’s global headquarters in Canary Wharf • The Shard on the south bank of the Thames (95%) • Harrods, bought in 2010 for a reported £1.5bn • The Olympic Village in east London • Numbers 1-3 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park – this week denied planning permission to be turned into a £200m single home • A 50% stake in the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank • Half of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block • The former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square • The site of Chelsea Barracks in west London, being turned into a luxury housing estate • 20% slice of Camden market • Stakes in Barclays, Sainsbury’s, the London Stock Exchange and Heathrow • And coming soon: Canary Wharf, after the controlling group capitulated and recommended a £2.6bn bid to shareholders Julia Kollewe
  • (4) There is no better symbol of London’s macho financialisation than the early 21st-century surge in skyscraper construction, the lanky delinquent mob of new towers that cluster around the City, and their gangmaster, the Shard.
  • (5) No topographic relationship was found between shards and mononuclear cell infiltration.
  • (6) Truth told, I simply hadn't the time to do anything more than snap a bar of expensive chocolate into jagged shards and put it in the middle of the table.
  • (7) Qatar’s royal family may have snapped up Canary Wharf for £2.6bn this week, adding to its London portfolio of Harrods and the Shard skyscraper, but the Gulf billionaires’ property spree has finally run into a dead end – a humble town hall bureaucrat.
  • (8) Проект по форме напоминает оборонительную башню типа тех, которыми утыканы склоны чеченских гор, но будет отделан стеклом, а его высота почти на 100 метров превысит отметку лондонского небоскрёба Shard.
  • (9) Guardian staff RowanMoore 02 April 2014 1:33pm I wonder how excited these kids will be about 200 towers rather less inspiring than the Shard.
  • (10) Officers were pelted with missiles, including shards of glass from shattered shopfronts, as stewards from the demonstration called for calm and tried to separate police from protesters.
  • (11) "This is a genuine merger of equals founded on core strategic principles rather than straight cost cuts," said James, presenting the merger deal at London's Shard skyscraper on Thursday.
  • (12) During their frequent and raging arguments, they threw so much crockery that we were able to make a giant mosaic in the garden from the shards.
  • (13) This nothing then broke into fragments, into shards which were real.
  • (14) As well as the shard investment, the Qataris last October came to the rescue of debt-laden Songbird, which owns Canary Wharf, and became its largest shareholder.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Renzo Piano’s Shard, a ‘giant middle finger presented to us all’.
  • (16) Launching his party’s economic programme for the next parliament at the Shangri-La hotel on the 52nd floor of the Shard in London, Clegg said the Lib Dems were eager to position themselves as the party of the centre ground.
  • (17) For example, he can denude himself of his forcefield of junk-shards and walk unaffected through laser-fields (since he's made of glass).
  • (18) Taking in the view from the Shard's observatory costs £30 for an adult ticket, bought on the day.
  • (19) Other videos showed views of Big Ben from close range, the Queen Victoria memorial next to Buckingham Palace, HMS Belfast at its mooring on the Thames and the Shard, Europe’s tallest skyscraper, all accompanied by a dramatic soundtrack.
  • (20) A police source told AFP a tourist had been “slightly injured” by a shard of bullet that struck her knee during the shooting.