Pump vs Pop - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between pump and pop

is that pump is a device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas or pump can be (british) a type of shoe, a trainer or sneaker while pop is a social club and debating society at or pop can be (also in plural) a popular classical music concert.

As a verb pump

is to use a pump to move (liquid or gas).

pump

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) pumpe, possibly from (etyl) . Compare Dutch pompen, German pumpen, and (etyl) pompe.

Noun

(en noun)

A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.

An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping

A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel.

(bodybuilding) A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.

* 2010', Eric Velazquez, "Power Pairings", ''Reps!'' ' 17 :83

Want a skin-stretching pump ? Up the volume by using high-rep sets.

A great pump is better than coming. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

(colloquial) A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.

(US, obsolete, slang) The heart.

Verb

(en verb)

To use a pump to move (liquid or gas).

To fill with air.

To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.

To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.

To gain information from (a person) by persistent questioning.

* Otway

But pump not me for politics.

To use a pump to move liquid or gas.

(slang) To be going very well.

(sports) To kick, throw or hit the ball far and high.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=February 5 , author=Michael Da Silva , title=Wigan 4 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Blackburn pumped long balls towards Diouf as they became increasingly desperate to salvage a point, but Wigan held on for a win that may prove crucial in their quest for Premier League survival.}}

(Scotland, slang) To pass gas; to fart.

* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 82:

People never pumped , just never never, but sometimes ye got smells.

(computing) To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.

* Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 documentation for Marshal.CleanupUnusedObjectsInCurrentContext

The interop system pumps messages while it attempts to clean up RCWs.

Etymology 2

The etymology of the term is unclear and disputed. One possibility is that it comes from "Pomp" (i.e. ornamentation), claimed in Skeat & Skeat's A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language'' (ISBN 9781596050921), and another is that it refers to the sound made by the foot moving inside the shoe when dancing, suggested as a probable source in Chambers's etymological dictionary (James Donald - Published by W. and R. Chambers, 1867). The Oxford English Dictionary claims that it appeared in the 16th century, and lists its origin as "obscure". It has also been linked to the Dutch ''pampoesje , possibly borrowed from Javanese "pampus", ultimately from Persian (papush) / Arabic (babush) (International archives of ethnography: Volume 9 - Intern. Gesellschaft für Ethnographie; Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië - Ter Lands-drukkerij, 1870).

Noun

(en noun)

(British) A type of shoe, a trainer or sneaker.

(chiefly, North America) A type of very high-heeled shoe; stilettoes.

A shoe.

A type of shoe without a heel (source: Dictionarium Britannicum - 1736)

References

* [http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-22,GGGL:en&q=pumps%20shoes&sa=N&tab=wi] Some images. * 1591' "Gabriel's ' pumps were all unpinkt i' th' heel" -- The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare

Synonyms

* (shoe) plimsoll (British), sneaker, trainer

Derived terms

* air pump * backpump * forepump * hand pump * petrol pump * price at the pump * pumped * pump fake * pump iron * pump room * pump up * stirrup pump * sump pump * under the pump ----

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.

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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 .