Desire vs Hop - What's the difference?
desire | hop |
To want; to wish for earnestly.
* Bible, Exodus xxxiv. 24
* Tennyson
To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XIII:
*
, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 To want emotionally or sexually.
To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
* Bible, 2 Kings iv. 28
* Shakespeare
To require; to demand; to claim.
* Spenser
To miss; to regret.
* Jeremy Taylor
(countable) Someone or something wished for.
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, title= (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
(uncountable) Motivation.
(uncountable) The feeling of desire.
A short jump
A jump on one leg.
A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that take place on private plane.
(sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
(US, dated) A dance.
(computing, telecommunications) The sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.
To jump a short distance.
* 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
To jump on one foot.
To be in state of energetic activity.
To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
(usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
(obsolete) To walk lame; to limp.
To dance.
the plant ( ) from whose flowers, beer or ale is brewed
(usually plural) the , dried and used to brew beer etc.
(US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 177:
The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
As a verb desire
is .As an adjective hop is
hollow, sunken.desire
English
Verb
(desir)- Neither shall any man desire thy land.
- Ye desire your child to live.
- And when they founde no cause of deeth in hym, yet desired they Pilate to kyll him.
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- Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord?
- Desire him to go in; trouble him no more.
- A doleful case desires a doleful song.
- She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.
Noun
(en-noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
Synonyms
* (one or thing wished for) wanna, want-to * (motivation) wanna, want-toSee also
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English
(wikipedia hop)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hoppen, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bunny hop * car hop * on the hop * sock hopVerb
(hopp)- When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
- Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop .
- The sudden rush of customers had everyone in the shop hopping .
- I hopped a plane over here as soon as I heard the news.
- He was trying to hop a ride in an empty trailer headed north.
- He hopped a train to California.
- We were party-hopping all weekend.
- We had to island hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.
- (Dryden)
- (Smollett)
Synonyms
(jump a short distance) jump, leapEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- ‘You've been shot full of hop and kept under it until you're as crazy as two waltzing mice.’
Derived terms
* hopback * hoppyVerb
(hopp)- (Mortimer)