Pop vs Clap - What's the difference?
pop | clap |
(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:
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.
(label) To burst (something): to cause to burst.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , chapter 1:
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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)
* 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed
(label) To place (something) (somewhere).
* Milton
To swallow (a tablet of a drug).
* 1994 , Ruth Garner and Patricia A. Alexander, Beliefs about text and instruction with text :
To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
* 1995 , David Brin, Startide Rising :
* 2009 , Ben Wixon, Skateboarding: Instruction, Programming, and Park Design :
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
* Jonathan Swift
To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire.
To stand out, to be visually distinctive.
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The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
The explosive sound of thunder.
* Episode 12, The Cyclops
Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.
* Jonathan Swift
A slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner.
A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
* Shakespeare
(falconry) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
(Yorkshire) A dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground) Edward Peacock, A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, Lincolnshire ,
* 1890 , John Nicholson, Folk Lore of East Yorkshire ,
To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.
To applaud.
To slap with the hand in a jovial manner.
To bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound.
* Marvell
To come together suddenly with noise.
* Dryden
To create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up'' or ''together ).
To set or put, usually in haste.
* John Locke
* Lamb
(slang, AAVE) To shoot (somebody) with a gun.
Gonorrhea.
* “What in hell makes you think he's got the clap ?” Hawkeye asked. “Even a clap doctor can't diagnose it through a parka
* When I explained that I thought he had given me the clap , he said I must be mistaken, it had to be someone I'd “tricked” with at ... He'd never had an STD in his life, he told me, and slammed down the phone.
* He thought I had given him the clap [gonorrhea], but I knew I didn't.
* Gonorrhea, sometimes called the clap , is caused by a bacterium called Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
As nouns the difference between pop and clap
is that pop is a social club and debating society at or pop can be (also in plural) a popular classical music concert while clap is the act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together or clap can be gonorrhea.As a verb clap is
to strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.pop
English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions.Noun
- The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop .
Synonyms
* (soda pop) see the list at (m)Derived terms
: (see below)Verb
(popp)- The waves came round her. She was a rock. She was covered with the seaweed which pops when it is pressed. He was lost.
- 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.
- 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.
- The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
- He popped a paper into his hand.
- We were drinking beer and popping pills — some really strong downers. I could hardly walk and I had no idea what I was saying.
- Huck spun along the beams and joists, making me gulp when she popped a wheelie or swerved past a gaping hole...
- The tail is the back of the deck; this is the part that enables skaters to pop ollies...
- He that killed my king / Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.
- a trick of popping up and down every moment
- She also looked like a star - and not the Beltway type. On a stage full of stiff suits, she popped .
clap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- He summoned the waiter with a clap .
- The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.
- Off in the distance, he heard the clap of thunder.
- Give the door such a clap , as you go out, as will shake the whole room.
- His father's affection never went further than a handshake or a clap on the shoulder.
- What, fifty of my followers at a clap !
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- “Oh! get some coo clap (cow dung), mix it wi’ fish oil (whale oil), put it on, and let it stop on all neet.”
Synonyms
* (sound of thunder) thunderclap * See alsoDerived terms
* thunderclapVerb
(Clapping)- The children began to clap in time with the music.
- The audience loudly clapped the actress, who responded with a deep curtsey.
- It isn’t the singers they are clapping ; it's the composer.
- He would often clap his teammates on the back for encouragement.
- He clapped the empty glass down on the table.
- She clapped the book shut.
- ''He clapped across the floor in his boots.
- Then like a bird it sits and sings, / And whets and claps its silver wings.
- The doors around me clapped .
- We should clap together a shelter before nightfall.
- ''The rival factions clapped up a truce.
- The sheriff clapped him in jail.
- She was the prettiest thing I'd ever clapped eyes on.
- He had just time to get in and clap to the door.
- Clap an extinguisher upon your irony.
Derived terms
* clapper * claptrap * clapperboardSee also
* applaud * applauseEtymology 2
Uncertain.Noun
(en noun)- 1997 MASH
- 1998 Dan Savage
- 1998 Changing Bodies
- 2006 The STDs Update
- I'm gonna kill that bitch for giving me the clap !
- If your dick has "the drip" you probably have the clap and need to go to the sex clinic.
- He wasn't careful; he caught both syphilis and the clap .