Tossing vs Hopping - What's the difference?
tossing | hopping |
The motion of something that tosses; a throwing or sudden rising and falling.
* Herman Melville
(mining) The process of washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earthy particles; tozing.
A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.
(vulgar, colloquial) Used to disparage or curse someone or something.
(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.
As verbs the difference between tossing and hopping
is that tossing is while hopping is .As nouns the difference between tossing and hopping
is that tossing is the motion of something that tosses; a throwing or sudden rising and falling while 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.As an adjective tossing
is (vulgar|colloquial) used to disparage or curse someone or something.tossing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adroitly balancing himself to the jerking tossings of his chip of a craft.
- (Pryce)
Adjective
(-)- I can't get this tossing program to work.