Bob vs Pop - What's the difference?

bob | pop |

As nouns the difference between bob and pop

is that bob is broad bean, horse bean while pop is a social club and debating society at or pop can be (also in plural) a popular classical music concert.

bob

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(bobb)

To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water.

The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.

The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water.

To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.

I bobbed my head under water and saw the goldfish.

bob''' one's head'' (= to ' nod )

To curtsy.

To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.

* Elyot

He was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants.

Derived terms

* bobber * bob for apples * bob up

Noun

(en noun)

A bobbing motion.

a bob of the head

A bobber.

* Lauson

Or yellow bobs turn'd up before the plough / Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enough.

A curtsy.

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

A bob haircut.

Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it

* 1773 ,

Ecod! I have got them. Here they are. My cousin Con's necklaces, bobs and all.

The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.

The docked tail of a horse.

A short line ending a stanza of a poem.

The short runner of a sled.

A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.

A working beam in a steam engine.

A particular style of ringing changes on bells.

A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.

(obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.

* Shenstone

A plain brown bob he wore.

(obsolete) The refrain of a song.

* L'Estrange

To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song.

(obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.

* Shakespeare

He that a fool doth very wisely hit, / Doth very foolishly, although he smart, / Not to seem senseless of the bob .

Verb

(bobb)

To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.

I got my hair bobbed . How do you like it?

To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop

Short form of bobsleigh

Etymology 3

Noun

(bob)

A shilling.

* , Episode 12, The Cyclops

One of the bottlenosed fraternity it was went by the name of James Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro, put an ad in the papers saying he'd give a passage to Canada for twenty bob .

:1933 , (George Orwell), (Down and Out in Paris and London) , xxix

::‘’Ere]] s for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a [['og, ’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven bob.’

* 1960 , , (Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter XVII

A 10-cent coin.

(slang) An unspecified amount of money.

* Spot me a few bob , Robert.

Derived terms

* bob-a-job * bent as a nine-bob note * two-bob bit

Usage notes

* The use of bob for shilling is dated slang in the UK and Australia, since decimalisation. In East African countries where the currency is the shilling, it is current usage, and not considered slang. OED gives first usage as 1789. * The use of bob to describe a 10-cent coin is derived from the fact that it was of equal worth to a shilling during decimalisation, however since then, the term has slowly dropped out of usage and is seldom used today.

Etymology 4

Noun

(en noun)

Etymology 5

(blitter) (object)

Noun

(en noun)

(computer graphics) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.

* 1986 , Eugene P Mortimore, Amiga programmer's handbook, Volumes 1-2

The bob list determines the drawing priority...

* 1995 , "John Girvin", Blitting bobs'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.amiga.programmer )

IMHO, youd (SIC) be better doing other things with the CPU and letting the blitter draw bobs , esp on a machine with fast ram.

* 2002 , "demoeffects", Demotized 0.0.1 - A collection of demo effects from the early days of the demo scene.'' (on Internet newsgroup ''fm.announce )

Changes: This release adds 2 new effects (bobs and unlimited bobs), has a GFX directory for sharing graphics, adds utility functions to the common code...

Derived terms

* shadebob

Anagrams

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pop

English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions.

Noun

(label) A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle.

An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.

* 1941 , LIFE magazine, 8 September 1941, page 27:

The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop .

A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.

Shortened from (pop shot): a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. Possibly confusion, by assonance, with (pot) as in (pot shot).

(label) A portion, a quantity dispensed.

(label) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.

* 2011 , Mark Lutz, Programming Python , page 1371:

A bird, the European redwing.

(label) The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, crackle), i.e. the rate of change of crackle.

Synonyms

* (soda pop) see the list at (m)

Derived terms

: (see below)

Verb

(popp)

(label) To burst (something): to cause to burst.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , chapter 1:

The waves came round her. She was a rock. She was covered with the seaweed which pops when it is pressed. He was lost.

* '>citation

The court was told Robins had asked if she could use the oven to heat some baby food for her child. Knutton heard a loud popping' noise "like a crisp packet being ' popped " coming from the kitchen followed by a "screeching" noise. When she saw what had happened to the kitten she was sick in the sink.

To act suddenly, unexpectedly or quickly.

To hit (something or someone).

(label) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.

(label) To ejaculate.

(label) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.

* 2010 , Enrico Perla, ?Massimiliano Oldani, A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core (page 55)

Once the callee (the called function) terminates, it cleans the stack that it has been locally using and pops the next value stored on top of the stack.

* 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed

The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

(label) To place (something) (somewhere).

* Milton

He popped a paper into his hand.

To swallow (a tablet of a drug).

* 1994 , Ruth Garner and Patricia A. Alexander, Beliefs about text and instruction with text :

We were drinking beer and popping pills — some really strong downers. I could hardly walk and I had no idea what I was saying.

To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.

* 1995 , David Brin, Startide Rising :

Huck spun along the beams and joists, making me gulp when she popped a wheelie or swerved past a gaping hole...

* 2009 , Ben Wixon, Skateboarding: Instruction, Programming, and Park Design :

The tail is the back of the deck; this is the part that enables skaters to pop ollies...

To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.

To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.

To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; with in'', ''out'', ''upon , etc.

* Shakespeare

He that killed my king / Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.

* Jonathan Swift

a trick of popping up and down every moment

To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire.

To stand out, to be visually distinctive.

She also looked like a star - and not the Beltway type. On a stage full of stiff suits, she popped .