chip vs peel

chip and peel both are nouns.

chip and peel both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chip	Yes	No	Yes	No
peel	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, peel is a hyponym of chip; that is, peel is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than chip:

chip: break off (a piece from a whole)
peel: come off in flakes or thin small pieces

Other hyponyms of chip include flake, flake off, peel off, exfoliate.

chip (noun)	peel (noun)
the act of chipping something	the rind of a fruit or vegetable
(golf) a low running approach shot
electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling
a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
a piece of dried bovine dung

chip (verb)	peel (verb)
break a small piece off from	get undressed
break off (a piece from a whole)	remove the skin from
form by chipping	come off in flakes or thin small pieces
cut a nick into
play a chip shot

Difference between chip and peel

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