Hopping vs. Jump — What's the Difference?

To move with light bounding skips or leaps.

To propel oneself upward or over a distance in single quick motion or series of such motions.

(Informal) To move quickly or be busily active

To move suddenly and in one motion

To jump on one foot or with both feet at the same time.

To move involuntarily, as in surprise

To make a quick trip, especially in an airplane.

To parachute from an aircraft.

To travel or move often from place to place. Often used in combination

(Informal) To act quickly; hustle

To move over by hopping

To take prompt advantage; respond quickly

(Informal) To get on (a train) surreptitiously in order to ride without paying a fare

To enter eagerly into an activity; plunge

To flavor with hops.

To begin or start. Often used with off

A light springy jump or leap, especially on one foot or with both feet at the same time.

To form an opinion or judgment hastily

A rebound

To make a sudden verbal attack; lash out

(Informal) A dance or dance party.

To undergo a sudden and pronounced increase

A short distance.

To rise suddenly in position or rank

A short trip, especially by air.

To change discontinuously or after a short period

A free ride; a lift.

To be displaced by a sudden jerk

A twining vine (Humulus lupulus) having lobed leaves and green female flowers arranged in conelike spikes.

To be displaced vertically or laterally because of improper alignment

Hops The dried female inflorescences of this plant, containing a bitter aromatic oil. They are used in brewing to inhibit bacterial growth and to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer.

(Computers) To move from one set of instructions in a program to another out of sequence.

(Slang) Opium.

To move over an opponent's playing piece in a board game.

(British) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.

To make a jump bid in bridge.

The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent

(Slang) To be lively; bustle

The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.

To leap over or across

A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.

To leap onto

Of a location, crowded with people.

(Slang) To spring upon in sudden attack; assault or ambush

The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.

To move or start prematurely before

A gathering of hops.

To cause to leap

To cause to increase suddenly

To pass over; skip

To raise in rank or position; promote.

To move a piece over (an opponent's piece) in a board game, often thereby capturing the opponent's piece.

To raise (a partner's bid) in bridge by more than is necessary.

To jump-start (a motor vehicle).

To leave (a course), especially through mishap

To leave hastily; skip

To leave (an organization, for example) suddenly or in violation of an agreement

To seize or occupy illegally

Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with.

The act of jumping; a leap.

The distance covered by a jump

An obstacle or span to be jumped.

A structure or course from which a jump is made

A descent from an aircraft by parachute.

(Sports) Any of several track-and-field events in which contestants jump.

An initial competitive advantage; a head start

Energy or quickness

A sudden pronounced rise, as in price or salary.

An impressive promotion.

A step or level

A sudden or major transition, as from one career or subject to another.

A short trip.

One in a series of moves and stopovers, as with a circus or road show.

(Games) A move in a board game over an opponent's piece.

(Computers) A movement from one set of instructions to another.

An involuntary nervous movement; a start.

Jumps A condition of nervousness. Often used with the.

A jump-start of a motor vehicle.

Vulgar Slang An act of sexual intercourse.

(intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.

(intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.

(transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.

(intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

(intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.

To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.

(intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.

(transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.

(transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.

To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).

(transitive) To cause to jump.

(transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.

(transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.

To increase speed aggressively and without warning.

To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.

To join by a buttweld.

To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.

(quarrying) To bore with a jumper.

To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.

(obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.

To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.

To flee; to make one's escape.

The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.

An effort; an attempt; a venture.

(mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

(architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.

An instance of propelling oneself upwards.

An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.

An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.

An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.

A jumping move in a board game.

A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).

An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.

(with on) An early start or an advantage.

(mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.

An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.

(science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.

(programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.

(film) jump cut

(theatre) one-night stand

A kind of loose jacket for men.

(obsolete) Exactly; precisely

(obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.

A kind of loose jacket for men.

The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.

An effort; an attempt; a venture.

The space traversed by a leap.

A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.

A jump-start; as, to get a jump from a passing mmotorist.

To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap.

To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt.

To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; - followed by with.

To pass over by means of a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream.

To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch.

To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.

To join by a butt weld.

To bore with a jumper.

Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise.

Exactly; pat.

A sudden and decisive increase;

An abrupt transition;

(film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another

A sudden involuntary movement;

Descent with a parachute;

The act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground;

Move forward by leaps and bounds;

Move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm;

Make a sudden physical attack on;

Increase suddenly and significantly;

Be highly noticeable

Enter eagerly into;

Rise in rank or status;

Run off or leave the rails;

Jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute

Cause to jump or leap;

Start a car engine whose battery by connecting it to another car's battery

Bypass;

Pass abruptly from one state or topic to another;

Go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions