different between noy vs nop

English

Etymology

Partly aphetic form of annoy, partly directly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n??/

Verb

noy (third-person singular simple present noys, present participle noying, simple past and past participle noyed)

1. (now rare, dialectal) To annoy; to harm or injure. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft / And ylakked my lemman.]

   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     "In Normandie was he noght / Noyed for my sake; / Ac thow thiself soothly / Shamedest hym ofte, / Crope into a cabane1740 / For cold of thi nayles, / Wendest that wynter / Wolde han y-lasted evere, / And dreddest to be ded / For a dym cloude, / And hyedest homward / For hunger of thi wombe."]

Alternative forms

• noie (obsolete)

Noun

noy

1. (obsolete) annoyance

Anagrams

• Yon, yon

Catalan

Noun

noy m (plural noys)

1. Obsolete spelling of noi

Further reading

• “noy” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

nop (plural nops)

1. (programming) A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
   • 2004, Patterson et al, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface

     Notice that in computing CPI or IPC, we do not count any nops executed as useful instructions.

Synonyms

• no-op

Derived terms

• NOP sled
• NOP slide

Verb

nop (third-person singular simple present nops, present participle nopping, simple past and past participle nopped)

1. (programming) To replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.
   • 2012, Michael W. Berry, Kyle A. Gallivan, Efstratios Gallopoulos, High-Performance Scientific Computing: Algorithms and Applications

     Worse, some patching can result in codes which cannot be executed: for example nopping the load which provides the value for the denominator of a division can result in a division by zero.

Etymology 2

Interjection

nop

1. (informal, rare) Alternative form of nope

Anagrams

• 'pon, NPO, ONP, OPN, Pon, pon

Italian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?p/

Interjection

nop

1. (informal, neologism) nope

Portuguese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?n?p/

Interjection

nop

1. (informal, neologism) nope

Seri

Noun

nop (plural nopxam)

1. bobcat, Lynx rufus

Spanish

Etymology

Possibly loaned from nope

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nop/, [?nop]

Interjection

nop

1. (informal, neologism) nope

See also

• sip