different between chiplike vs whiplike

English

Etymology

From chip +? -like.

Pronunciation

Adjective

chiplike (comparative more chiplike, superlative most chiplike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a chip (fragment of stone etc.).
   • 1982, Gordon Randolph Willey, Augustus Ledyard Smith, Jeremy A Sabloff, Excavations at Seibal, Department of Peten, Guatemala

     The plaster itself was light gray in color and contained small, broken, or chiplike stones...

   • 1988, Eudora Welty, Moon Lake, in Morgana: Two Stories from “The Golden Apples”, page 97,

     The Morgana girls pulled the orphans? hands and dragged them in, or pushed suddenly from behind, and finally the orphans took hold of one another and waded forward in a body, singing “Good Morning” with their stiff, chiplike lips.

2. Resembling or characteristic of a chip (damaged area of a surface where a small piece has broken off).
   • 2000, John Cadick, Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer, Dennis Neitzel, Electrical Safety Handbook, page 2.35,

     Scratches, Nicks and Snags (Figs 2.26, 2.35, 2.36). Angular tears, notches, or chiplike injuries in the surface of the rubber caused by sharp objects such as wire, pointed tools, staples. or other similar sharp-edged hazards.

3. (US) Resembling or characteristic of a chip (thin, crisp, baked piece of vegetable).
4. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Resembling or characteristic of a chip (wedge of fried potato).
   • 1987, William F Talburt, Ora Smith, Science

     ...the chemical structure required for the generation of chiplike flavor during deep fat frying of methionine is specific.

5. Resembling or characteristic of a chip (electronic circuit fabricated on substrate).
   • 1992, Daniel L Alkon, Memory?s voice: deciphering the brain-mind code

     Workers have begun to grow cultured neurons on chiplike matrix structures.

English

Etymology

whip +? -like

Adjective

whiplike (comparative more whiplike, superlative most whiplike)

1. Resembling a whip or some aspect of one; long, thin, and flexible, or flagellatory.

Synonyms

• whippy