Hopping vs Shopping - What's the difference?
hopping | shopping |
(British) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
* Hopping Down in Kent , Alan Bignell (1977).
* 1915 , ":
*:He took his whole family to a hop-field in Kent, not far from Mrs. Athelny's home, and they spent three weeks hopping .
The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent
The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
(countable, physics) A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.
(uncountable) Searching for or buying goods or services.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 (uncountable) Recently bought goods.
(countable, South America) A shopping center.
* 2013 , Karen Keller, Portuguese For Dummies (page 131)
As nouns the difference between hopping and shopping
is that hopping is (british) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of kent or hopping can be the act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing while shopping is (uncountable) searching for or buying goods or services.As verbs the difference between hopping and shopping
is that hopping is while shopping is .hopping
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- In Brazil, shoppings are more associated with the middle and upper classes.