different between portion vs chip

English

Etymology

From Middle English porcioun, borrowed from Old French porcion, from Latin portio (“a share, part, portion, relation, proportion”), akin to pars (“part”); see part. Compare proportion.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p????n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p????n/
• (Scotland, Ireland, other varieties without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?po????n/, /?po????n/, /?po???n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n

Noun

portion (plural portions)

1. An allocated amount.
2. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
3. One's fate; lot.
   • Man's portion is to die and rise again.

4. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
5. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
   • 1613, William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, V. iv. 31:

     Commend me to her, and to piece her portion / Tender her this.

Usage notes

Relatively formal, compared to the more informal part or more concrete and casual piece. For example, “part of the money” (both informal) but “portion of the proceeds” (both formal).

Synonyms

• part
• piece

Derived terms

• portionless
• proportion
• underportion

Translations

Verb

portion (third-person singular simple present portions, present participle portioning, simple past and past participle portioned)

1. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
2. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.
   • 1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst

     Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans, blest.

Translations

Usage notes

• Particularly used as portion out.
• Relatively formal, compared to the more informal divide, divide up, or the casual divvy, divvy up.

Synonyms

• apportion
• divide, divide up
• divvy, divvy up

Derived terms

• portion off
• portion out

Further reading

• portion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• portion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin portionem (accusative singular of portio).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.sj??/

Noun

portion f (plural portions)

1. portion

Descendants

• ? Turkish: porsiyon

Further reading

• “portion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• potiron

Interlingua

Noun

portion (plural portiones)

1. portion

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

portion c

1. serving, an helping of food

Declension

Related terms

• portionera

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ch?p, IPA^(key): /t??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ?ipp (“chip; small piece of wood”), from Old English *?ippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English for?ippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-Germanic *kipp- (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *?eyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kip, keep (“notch; nick; score”), Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop.

The formally similar Old English ?ipp, ?ypp, ?yp (“a beam; log; stock; post”), from Proto-Germanic *kippaz (“log; beam”), whence Old Saxon kip (“post”), Old High German kipfa, chipfa (“axle, stave”) and Old Norse keppr (“cudgel, club”), ultimately from Latin cippus (“stake; pale; post”), is a different, unrelated word.

Noun

chip (plural chips)

1. A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
2. A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.

   This cup has a chip in it.

3. (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
   • 2002, Albert H. Moorehead, Hoyle?s Rules of Games, page 46,

     If the second player does raise three chips, and all the other players drop, the player who opened may stay in by putting three more chips in the pot, for then he will have put in precisely as many chips as the second player.

4. (slang, dated) A sovereign (the coin).
5. (electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
   • 1986 September 1, Tom Moran, Lisa L. Spiegelman, New Chip Said to Contain Seven PC AT Chip Functions, InfoWorld, page 5,

     But sources close to the company said the chip contains two direct memory access controllers, two interrupt controllers, a timer, a memory mapper from Texas Instruments, and a Motorola Inc. real-time clock.

6. (electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.
   • 2002, Koji Ikuta, Atsushi Takahashi, Kota Ikeda, Shoji Maruo, User-Assembly Fully Integrated Micro Chemical Laboratory Using Biochemical IC Chips for Wearable/Implantable Applications, Yoshinobu Baba, Shuichi Shoji, Albert van den Berg (editors), Micro Total Analysis Systems 2002: Proceedings of the ?TAS 2002 Symposium, Volume 1, page 38,

     Fig. 4(a) shows a schematic design of the micropump chip.

   • 2007, Elisabeth S. Papazoglou, Aravind Parthasarathy, Bionanotechnology, page 6,

     Fig. 0.3 is an image of the front and back views of a drug delivery microchip made of silicon and painted with gold, with a U.S. dime (10 cents). The chip in the picture consists of 34 nano-sized wells each of which is capable of housing 24 nl (nano liters) of drug. It is possible to make at least 400 wells or even 1000 or more in these chips which are very inexpensive, costing less tham $20 [22, 23].

7. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, especially in the plural) A fried strip of potato of square or rectangular cross-section; a french fry.

   Do you want sauce or mayonnaise on your chips?

8. (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes another vegetable; a crisp.

   they made their own potato chips from scratch, he ate a tortilla chip, served with a side of apple chips

9. (sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
10. (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
11. A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
12. (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
13. (cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.

    chocolate chip

14. A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
15. (nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
16. (historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
17. (archaic, derogatory) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
18. (golf) A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.

Usage notes

In New Zealand and Australia, where the term chip(s) can refer to either french fried potatoes or deep-fried potato slices, the dishes are distinguished as "hot chips" (french fried potatoes) or, in New Zealand, "cold chips" (deep-fried potato slices) when clarity is needed.

Synonyms

• (small piece broken off): flake
• (circuit): IC, integrated circuit, microchip, silicon chip
• (deep-fried or baked slice of vegetable): crisp (UK, Ireland)
• (deep-fried small column of potato): fry (mainly North America), French fries (mainly North America)
• (a receptacle for strawberries): punnet (British, New Zealand, Australia), pottle (New Zealand, southern)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Catalan: xip
• ? Korean: ? (chip)

Translations

See also

• French fries
• fries
• potato wedge
• woodchip

Etymology 2

From Middle English chippen, from Old English *?ippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English for?ippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-Germanic *kipp- (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ey- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop.

Verb

chip (third-person singular simple present chips, present participle chipping, simple past and past participle chipped)

1. (transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.
2. (transitive) To break small pieces from.

   Be careful not to chip the paint.

3. (transitive, sports) 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.
   • 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:

     Koeman identified Southampton’s third as their finest goal of the game. Jack Cork, the most underrated player at a much-lauded club, swept the ball out wide to Tadic, who waited for Cork to run to the back post before chipping the ball across to him to slam in a deserved goal from close range, despite an attempted block by Vito Mannone.

   • 2016, Andy Edwards, "VIDEO: San Jose’s Quincy Amarikwa chips, goes upper-90 from 35 yards out", NBCSports.com, 13 March 2016:

     Typically when someone scores a stunning goal this early in the season — it’s only Week 2 — it gets forgotten, or at the very least lost in the shuffle after eight more months of worthy GOTY candidates. Not this year, though, because no one is forgetting Amarikwa chipping Adam Kwarasey from 35 yards out and burying the ball in the top corner.

4. (transitive, automotive) to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
5. (intransitive) To become chipped.

   This varnish chips easily.

6. (intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
7. (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
8. (Britain, transitive, often with "in") to contribute.

   Everyone needs to chip in £1 for George's leaving collection

9. (also, to chip at) To make fun of.

Derived terms

• chip in
• chipped
• chipping

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English chip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??p/
• Hyphenation: chip
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

chip m (plural chips, diminutive chipje n)

1. (electronics, computing) A chip (one-piece circuit or hybrid device containing a circuit and another device).

Derived terms

• microchip
• nanochip

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English chip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??ip]

Noun

chip

1. Superseded spelling of csip.

Declension

References

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ç?p?/

Noun

chip m

1. Lenited form of cip.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English chip.

Noun

chip m (invariable)

1. chip (small electronic component)

Min Nan

Polish

Alternative forms

• czip

Etymology

From English chip, from Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ?ipp (“chip; small piece of wood”), from Old English *?ippian (“to cut; hew”), from Proto-Germanic *kipp- (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *?eyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??ip/

Noun

chip m inan

1. (electronics) chip (integrated circuit)

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) chipowa?
• (adjective) chipowy

Further reading

• chip in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• chip in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Hungarian kép (“image”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kip/

Noun

chip n (plural chipuri)

1. face, likeness
2. picture, image

Declension

Synonyms

• fa??
• imagine

Derived terms

• închipui

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English chip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??ip/, [?t??ip]

Noun

chip m (plural chips)

1. chip (circuit)

Derived terms