Hop vs Hap - What's the difference?
hop | hap |
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
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 an adjective hop
is hollow, sunken.As a noun hap is
pah.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
* * * ----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.