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Mop vs Nop - What's the difference?

mop | nop |

As nouns the difference between mop and nop

is that mop is an implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle while nop is a no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.

As verbs the difference between mop and nop

is that mop is to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop while nop is to replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.

mop

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia mop)
  • An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
  • (humorous) A dense head of hair.
    • He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.
  • (British, dialect) A fair where servants are hired.
  • (British, dialect) The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.
    • (Halliwell)
  • A made-up face; a grimace.
  • * (rfdate) (Francis Beaumont) and
    • What mops and mowes it makes! --
  • * 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
    • Before you can say 'Come' and 'Go,'
    And breathe twice; and cry 'so, so,'
    Each one, tripping on his toe,
    Will be here with mop and mow.

    Derived terms

    * mophead * mop squeezer * mop water

    Descendants

    * German: (l)

    Verb

    (mopp)
  • To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
    • to mop (or scrub) a floor
    to mop one's face with a handkerchief
  • To make a wry expression with the mouth.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Anagrams

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    nop

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (programming) A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
  • * 1999 , Dominic Sweetman, See MIPS Run
    • The MIPS instruction set is rich in nops , since any instruction with zero as a destination is guaranteed to do nothing.
  • * 2004 , Patterson et al'', ''Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface
    • Notice that in computing CPI or IPC, we do not count any nops executed as useful instructions.

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (programming) To replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.
  • * 1992 , The Cyborg, The Cracking Manual
    • For example, if there is a CALL 3140 and we want to skip this call, we can NOP it out.

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