Harp vs Hap - What's the difference?
harp | hap |
A musical instrument consisting of an upright frame strung with strings that are stroked or plucked with the fingers.
(label) A harmonica.
(label) A grain sieve.
To repeatedly mention a subject.
(label) To play on (a harp or similar instrument)
(label) To play (a tune) on the harp.
(label) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
* Spenser
* Sir Philip Sidney
* 1851 , :
(literary) to happen; to befall; to chance.
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(literary) To happen to.
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(UK, Scotland, dialect) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm.
(dialect) To wrap or clothe.
* Dr. J. Brown
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As a proper noun harp
is for a player of the harp.As a noun hap is
pah.harp
English
(wikipedia harp)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* harpistSee also
* lyreVerb
(en verb)- (US)
- (UK)
- — Shakespeare.
Synonyms
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* ----hap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hap, . The verb is from (etyl) happen, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.
- HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps :
- Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
- whether art it was or heedless hap
- Cursed be good haps', and cursed be they that build / Their hopes on ' haps .
- He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap ; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.
Derived terms
* hapful * haphazard * hapless * haply * happen * happenstance * happy * hapsome * mayhap * mishap * perhapsSee also
* what's the hapsVerb
(happ)Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(happ)- The surgeon happed her up carefully.