Difference between Hop and Jump

What is the difference between Hop and Jump?

Hop as a verb is to jump a short distance. while Jump as a verb is to propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.

Hop

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To jump a short distance. To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a short jump, a short journey a dance the plant (Humulus lupulus) from whose flowers, beer or ale is brewed the flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer etc. a narcotic drug, usually opium

Jump

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.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.To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.To attack suddenly and violently.To force to jump.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: exactly; precisely

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An instance of propelling oneself into the air.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.An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.An early start or an advantage.A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.

Example sentence: I was an extra on 21 Jump Street when I was 19 years old.

We hope you now know whether to use Hop or Jump in your sentence.

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