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Jazz vs Pop - What's the difference?

jazz | pop |

In lang=en terms the difference between jazz and pop

is that jazz is a musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation while pop is acronym of Point of Purchase|lang=en.

As a proper noun Jazz

is a diminutive=James given name.

As an interjection pop is

sound made in imitation of the sound.

As an adjective pop is

popular.

As an acronym POP is

acronym of probability of precipitation|lang=en.

jazz

English

Alternative forms

* jaz, jas, jass, jasz

Noun

(-)
  • (music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
  • Energy, excitement, excitability. Very lively.
  • The (in)tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a thing.
  • What jazz were you referring to earlier?
    What is all this jazz lying around?
  • Unspecified thing(s).
  • I'm just going down to the shops and jazz = I am off to purchase items and etcetera.
  • (lb) Of excellent quality, the genuine article.
  • That show was the jazz ! = That musical concert/television program was most enjoyable.
    This risotto is simply the jazz . = This risotto was cooked in the classic manner.
  • Nonsense.
  • Stop talking jazz .

    Verb

  • To play jazz music.
  • To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
  • To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite
  • To complicate.
  • Don’t jazz it too much! = Be careful, it was good to start with!
  • To have sex with.
  • * 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 59:
  • Jazzing ?’ Temple whispered [...]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’
  • To destroy.
  • You’ve gone and jazzed it now! = It is ruined.
  • To distract/pester.
  • Stop jazzing me! = Leave me alone.

    References

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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.
  • * '>citation
  • 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 .