Modern vs Pop - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between modern and pop

is that modern is someone who lives in modern times while pop is a social club and debating society at or pop can be (also in plural) a popular classical music concert.

As an adjective modern

is pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.

modern

English

Adjective

(en-adj)

Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.

*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.

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(lb) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

Synonyms

* contemporary

Antonyms

* dated * old * pre-modern * ancient

Derived terms

* modern-day * modernise, modernize verb * modernity noun * postmodern (''see also prepostmodern, postpostmodern) * premodern * early modern

Noun

(en noun)

Someone who lives in modern times.

* 1779 , Edward Capell, ?John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare

What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd

* 1956 , John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt (page 144)

Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did we must as historians make the attempt.

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pop

English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions.

Noun

(label) A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle.

An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.

* 1941 , LIFE magazine, 8 September 1941, page 27:

The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop .

A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.

Shortened from (pop shot): a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. Possibly confusion, by assonance, with (pot) as in (pot shot).

(label) A portion, a quantity dispensed.

(label) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.

* 2011 , Mark Lutz, Programming Python , page 1371:

A bird, the European redwing.

(label) The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, crackle), i.e. the rate of change of crackle.

Synonyms

* (soda pop) see the list at (m)

Derived terms

: (see below)

Verb

(popp)

(label) To burst (something): to cause to burst.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , chapter 1:

The waves came round her. She was a rock. She was covered with the seaweed which pops when it is pressed. He was lost.

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The court was told Robins had asked if she could use the oven to heat some baby food for her child. Knutton heard a loud popping' noise "like a crisp packet being ' popped " coming from the kitchen followed by a "screeching" noise. When she saw what had happened to the kitten she was sick in the sink.

To act suddenly, unexpectedly or quickly.

To hit (something or someone).

(label) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.

(label) To ejaculate.

(label) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.

* 2010 , Enrico Perla, ?Massimiliano Oldani, A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core (page 55)

Once the callee (the called function) terminates, it cleans the stack that it has been locally using and pops the next value stored on top of the stack.

* 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed

The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

(label) To place (something) (somewhere).

* Milton

He popped a paper into his hand.

To swallow (a tablet of a drug).

* 1994 , Ruth Garner and Patricia A. Alexander, Beliefs about text and instruction with text :

We were drinking beer and popping pills — some really strong downers. I could hardly walk and I had no idea what I was saying.

To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.

* 1995 , David Brin, Startide Rising :

Huck spun along the beams and joists, making me gulp when she popped a wheelie or swerved past a gaping hole...

* 2009 , Ben Wixon, Skateboarding: Instruction, Programming, and Park Design :

The tail is the back of the deck; this is the part that enables skaters to pop ollies...

To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.

To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.

To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; with in'', ''out'', ''upon , etc.

* Shakespeare

He that killed my king / Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.

* Jonathan Swift

a trick of popping up and down every moment

To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire.

To stand out, to be visually distinctive.

She also looked like a star - and not the Beltway type. On a stage full of stiff suits, she popped .