fragment vs chip

chip vs fragment

fragment and chip both are nouns.

fragment and chip both are verbs.

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

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

fragment: a piece broken off or cut off of something else
chip: a small fragment of something broken off from the whole

Other hyponyms of fragment include bit, flake, fleck, scrap, brickbat, cinder, clinker, clast, coal, ember, filing, paring, shaving, sliver, restriction fragment, scraping, spall, spawl, spark.

fragment (noun)	chip (noun)
a broken piece of a brittle artifact	the act of chipping something
an incomplete piece	(golf) a low running approach shot
a piece broken off or cut off of something else	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

fragment (verb)	chip (verb)
break or cause to break into pieces	break a small piece off from
	break off (a piece from a whole)
	form by chipping
	cut a nick into
	play a chip shot

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