Jumping vs Hopping - What's the difference?
jumping | hopping |
(colloquial) excellent, very fun
* 1998 ,
The act of performing a jump.
* 1871 , John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion (page 291)
(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
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.
As verbs the difference between jumping and hopping
is that jumping is present participle of lang=en while hopping is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between jumping and hopping
is that jumping is the act of performing a jump while hopping is hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.As an adjective jumping
is excellent, very fun.jumping
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)
- And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo)
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- When the tuning-fork is brought over a resonant jar or bottle, the beats may be heard and the jumpings seen by a thousand people at once.