Hop vs Bound - What's the difference?
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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
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(mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
(dated) constipated; costive
(often, used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
(mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values
To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
(mathematics) To be the boundary of.
A sizeable jump, great leap.
A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
(dated) A bounce; a rebound.
To leap, move by jumping.
To cause to leap.
(dated) To rebound; to bounce.
(dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
(obsolete) ready, prepared.
ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
Bound is a synonym of hop.
In intransitive terms the difference between hop and bound
is that hop is to be in state of energetic activity while bound is to leap, move by jumping.In transitive terms the difference between hop and bound
is that hop is to suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously while bound is to cause to leap.In obsolete terms the difference between hop and bound
is that hop is to walk lame; to limp while bound is ready, prepared.As an adjective bound is
obliged (to).hop
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)
Etymology 3
(en)Derived terms
* hop jointAnagrams
* * * ----bound
English
Alternative forms
* bownd (archaic)Etymology 1
See bindVerb
(head)citation, passage=“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound , on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck?; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”}}
- ''I bound the splint to my leg.
- ''I had bound the splint with duct tape.
Adjective
(-)citation, passage=Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
Antonyms
* freeDerived terms
* bound to * I'll be boundEtymology 2
From (etyl) bounde, from (etyl) bunne, fromNoun
(en noun)- I reached the northern bound of my property, took a deep breath and walked on.
- Somewhere within these bounds you may find a buried treasure.
Derived terms
* boundary * boundless * harmonic bounding * least upper bound * lower bound * metes and bounds * out of bounds * upper bound * within boundsVerb
(en verb)- ''France, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra bound Spain.
- ''Kansas is bounded by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Oklahoma on the south and Colorado on the west.
Derived terms
* unbound * unboundedEtymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- ''The deer crossed the stream in a single bound .
- the bound of a ball
- (Johnson)
Derived terms
* by leaps and boundsVerb
(en verb)- ''The rabbit bounded down the lane.
- to bound a horse
- (Shakespeare)
- a rubber ball bounds on the floor
- to bound a ball on the floor
Derived terms
* reboundEtymology 4
Alteration of boun , with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1, above.Adjective
(en adjective)- ''Which way are you bound ?
- ''Is that message bound for me?