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Hump vs Tryst - What's the difference?

hump | tryst |

As a proper noun hump

is the himalayas, as the challenge for the supply route between india and china.

As a noun tryst is

a prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.

As a verb tryst is

to make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.

hump

English

Noun

(wikipedia hump) (en noun)
  • A mound of earth.
  • A rounded mass, especially a fleshy mass such as on a camel.
  • A speed hump.
  • (rft-sense) A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
  • (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
  • (British, slang) A bad mood.
    • get the hump''', have the '''hump''', take the '''hump .
  • (slang) A painfully boorish person.
    • That guy is such a hump !

    Synonyms

    * (abnormal deformity of the spine) gibbous, humpback, hunch, hunchback

    See also

    * over the hump * hump day * speed hump

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bend something into a hump.
  • (slang) To carry something, especially with some exertion.
  • (slang) To carry, especially with some exertion.
  • (intransitive) To dry-hump.
  • (slang) To have sex with.
  • (slang) To have sex.

    • Derived terms

    * dry-hump

    tryst

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
  • * Tennyson
    • The tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile.
  • * 2004 , , The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life , page 11
    • But, for the most part, we shall mark our progress to the dawn of life by the measure of those 40 natural milestones, the trysts that enrich our pilgrimage.
  • * 2005 , , The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And 99 other thought experiments , ?91: “No one gets hurt”, page 271 (Granta; ISBN 1862078556, 9781862078550)
    • If someone trusts you, what is lost if you betray that trust? As Scarlett is tempted to see it, sometimes nothing at all. If her husband remains ignorant of her tryst , then his trust in her will remain intact. ‘No one gets hurt’ runs her reasoning, so why not go ahead?
  • (obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
  • To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
  • To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.