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Hopping vs Crawling - What's the difference?

hopping | crawling |

As nouns the difference between hopping and crawling

is that hopping is hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent while crawling is the motion of something that crawls.

As verbs the difference between hopping and crawling

is that hopping is present participle of lang=en while crawling is present participle of lang=en.

hopping

English

Etymology 1

Alternative spelling () of

Noun

(en noun)
  • (British) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
  • * Hopping Down in Kent , Alan Bignell (1977).
  • * 1915 , ":
  • *:He took his whole family to a hop-field in Kent, not far from Mrs. Athelny's home, and they spent three weeks hopping .
  • The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent

    • Etymology 2

    to hop

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
  • (countable, physics) A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.

    • crawling

    English

    (wikipedia crawling)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that crawls.
  • * Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
    • Miss Brass devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.

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