chip vs slice

chip

verb
  • To chop or cut into small pieces. 

  • To make fun of. 

  • To become chipped. 

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

  • To fit (an animal) with a microchip. 

  • To break small pieces from. 

  • 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. 

  • to contribute. 

  • To ante (up). 

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

  • A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate. 

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

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

  • A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel. 

  • A takeout that hits a rock at an angle. 

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

  • A token used in place of cash. 

  • A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking. 

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

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

  • The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line. 

  • A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air. 

  • A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit. 

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

slice

verb
  • To cut into slices. 

  • To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high. 

  • To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player). 

  • To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion. 

  • To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke. 

  • To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar. 

  • To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce. 

  • To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards. 

noun
  • A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.) 

  • A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle. 

  • A contiguous portion of an array. 

  • A removable sliding bottom to a galley. 

  • A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling. 

  • That which is thin and broad. 

  • One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching. 

  • A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw 

  • A thin, broad piece cut off. 

  • A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray. 

  • Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices. 

  • A salver, platter, or tray. 

  • A broad, thin piece of plaster. 

  • An amount of anything. 

  • A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink. 

  • A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel. 

adj
  • Having the properties of a slice knot. 

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