Mount vs Hop - What's the difference?
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A mountain.
(label) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
* Bible, Jer. vi. 6
(label) A bank; a fund.
An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse
A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
(label) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
To move upwards.
#(lb) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
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#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:Or shall we mount again the Rural Throne, / And rule the Country Kingdoms, once our own?
#(lb) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
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#(lb) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:to mount the Trojan troop
# To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up''; to raise; to elevate; to lift ''up .
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:What power is it which mounts my love so high?
# To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up .
#*Bible, (w) li. 53
#*:Though Babylon should mount up to heaven.
#* (1743-1809)
#*:The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.
(lb) To attach (an object) to a support.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
# To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
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To increase in quantity or intensity.
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(lb) To attain in value; to amount (to).
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Bring then these blessings to a strict account, / Make fair deductions, see to what they mount .
(lb) To get on top of (an animal) to mate.
# To have sexual intercourse with someone.
(lb) To begin (a military assault, etc.); to launch.
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(lb) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
A short jump
A jump on one leg.
A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that take place on private plane.
(sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
(US, dated) A dance.
(computing, telecommunications) The sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.
To jump a short distance.
* 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
To jump on one foot.
To be in state of energetic activity.
To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
(usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
(obsolete) To walk lame; to limp.
To dance.
the plant ( ) from whose flowers, beer or ale is brewed
(usually plural) the , dried and used to brew beer etc.
(US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 177:
The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
As a proper noun mount
is .As an adjective hop is
hollow, sunken.mount
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) munt, from (etyl) , from a root seen also in (English eminent).Noun
(en noun)- Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem.
Usage notes
* Used chiefly in poetry, but also in the names of specific mountains, e.g. "Mount Everest".Derived terms
* (abbreviation)Etymology 2
From (etyl) mounten, from (etyl) mounter, from (etyl) monter, from ; compare French monter.Noun
(en noun)- The rider climbed onto his mount .
- The post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed.
- The General said he has 2,000 mounts .
Verb
(en verb)Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, passage=For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* dismount * demount * unmountExternal links
* * *hop
English
(wikipedia hop)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hoppen, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bunny hop * car hop * on the hop * sock hopVerb
(hopp)- When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
- Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop .
- The sudden rush of customers had everyone in the shop hopping .
- I hopped a plane over here as soon as I heard the news.
- He was trying to hop a ride in an empty trailer headed north.
- He hopped a train to California.
- We were party-hopping all weekend.
- We had to island hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.
- (Dryden)
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Synonyms
(jump a short distance) jump, leapEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- ‘You've been shot full of hop and kept under it until you're as crazy as two waltzing mice.’
Derived terms
* hopback * hoppyVerb
(hopp)- (Mortimer)
