Pop vs Pops - What's the difference?
pop | pops |
(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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(informal, usually, as a form of address) Father, dad.
(informal, usually, as a form of address) By extension, another man old enough to be the speaker's father.
(the sound and related meanings)
(pop)
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Pops is a synonym of pop.
As nouns the difference between pop and pops
is that pop is a loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle while pops is father, dad.As verbs the difference between pop and pops
is that pop is to burst (something): to cause to burst while pops is third-person singular of pop.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.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 .
pops
English
Etymology 1
From papa 'dad'Noun
(head)- Hey, pops , I'm home.
