different between jumping vs hopping

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??mp??/

Adjective

jumping (comparative more jumping, superlative most jumping)

1. (colloquial) Exuberantly active; in full swing.
   • 1998, Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out?

     When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)

     And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo)

Verb

jumping

1. present participle of jump

Noun

jumping (plural jumpings)

1. The act of performing a jump.
   • 1871, John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion (page 291)

     When the tuning-fork is brought over a resonant jar or bottle, the beats may be heard and the jumpings seen by a thousand people at once.

Further reading

• jumping on Wikiversity.Wikiversity

French

Etymology

from English jumping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?œ?.pi?/

Noun

jumping m (plural jumpings)

1. show jumping (equestrian discipline)
2. (sports and physical fitness) A form of movement in which a body propels itself through the air.

Further reading

• “jumping” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p??

Etymology 1

Alternative spelling (C17) of hoppe, from Middle French houbelon

Noun

hopping (countable and uncountable, plural hoppings)

1. (Britain) 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).
2. The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent

Etymology 2

Verb

hopping

1. present participle of hop

Noun

hopping (countable and uncountable, plural hoppings)

1. The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
2. (countable, physics) A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.

Adjective

hopping (comparative more hopping, superlative most hopping)

1. (US, slang) Of a location, crowded with people.