Chip
Chip noun - A small flat piece separated from a whole.
Patch
Patch noun - A very small piece.
Usage example: a patch of land hardly big enough for a garden
How words are described
| special | special chip | special patch |
| particular | particular chip | particular patch |
| specific | specific chip | specific patch |
| separate | separate chip | separate patch |
| Other adjectives: single, simple, small, strong, massive, large, big, huge, tiny, new, major, final, next, last, giant. | ||
Common collocations
| character | chip character | patch character |
Both words in one sentence
- From here, Superman was heavily taken down in the Complete Edition patch, which added more recovery to his lasers and nerfed his most used combo starter f+2,3 along with the freeze breath which was used to safely cause chip damage after a normally unsafe f+2,3 on block.
Source: Game Breaker / Fighting Games - Instead of either initiating a full recall or banking on the fact that 98% of users would never encounter this bug, AMD chose a somewhat odd third option and issued a BIOS patch that disabled the TLB altogether, crippling the chip's performance.
Source: Darth Wiki / Idiot Programming - Hobbyists with electronics skills were able to add the missing video memory chip, disconnect the added gates and patch the video driver software to properly display lowercase, albeit with "flying a's".
Source: Darth Wiki / Idiot Programming
Cite this Source
Patch and Chip. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/chip/patch
Chip & Patch. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/chip/patch>.
Patch or Chip. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/chip/patch.
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