Hop vs Stumble - 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
A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
An error or blunder.
A clumsy walk.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
* Sir Walter Scott
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, title= To make a mistake or have trouble.
To cause to stumble or trip.
(figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
* Milton
* John Locke
To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .
* Dryden
* C. Smart
As an adjective hop
is hollow, sunken.As a noun stumble is
a fall, trip or substantial misstep.As a verb stumble is
to trip or fall; to walk clumsily.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
* * * ----stumble
English
Noun
(en noun)The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
Synonyms
* (a blunder) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, thinko * See alsoVerb
(stumbl)- He stumbled up the dark avenue.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.}}
- False and dazzling fires to stumble men.
- One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.
- Ovid stumbled , by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath.
- Forth as she waddled in the brake, / A grey goose stumbled on a snake.