Hiccup vs Glitch - What's the difference?
hiccup | glitch |
A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound.
(by extension) Any spasm or sudden change.
* 2010 , Oli Smith, Nuclear Time (page 197)
A minor setback.
To have the hiccups.
A problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk
(video games) A bug or an exploit.
(music) A genre of experimental electronic music of the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.
To experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction
(video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.
As nouns the difference between hiccup and glitch
is that hiccup is a spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound while glitch is a problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk.As verbs the difference between hiccup and glitch
is that hiccup is to have the hiccups while glitch is to experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction.hiccup
English
(wikipedia hiccup)Alternative forms
* hickup * hiccough (old-fashioned)Noun
(en noun)- There was a loud hiccup from the back of the room and the class erupted in laughter.
- Albert didn't notice the switch, the subliminal flash and hiccup in time as the man he had been talking to only seconds before was catapulted backwards half an hour.
- There's been a slight hiccup in the processing of this quarter's results
Hypernyms
* (spasm of the diaphragm) myoclonusSee also
* hiccupsVerb
glitch
English
Noun
(wikipedia glitch) (es)- They are still trying to work out all the glitches .
- Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.
Derived terms
* glitchcoreQuotations
* 1962 , (John Glenn) *: Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical current. * 1965 , Time magazine *: Glitches —a spaceman’s word for irritating disturbances.Verb
(es)- My computer keeps glitching ; every couple of hours it just reboots without warning.
- His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.