different between slump vs hurry

English

Etymology

Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“to sell off”). Compare also German schlumpen (“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Verb

slump (third-person singular simple present slumps, present participle slumping, simple past and past participle slumped)

1. (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.

   • “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”

2. (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
3. (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
4. (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.

   • These different groups […] are exclusively slumped together under that sense.

5. To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance (sermon)

     The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump.

6. (slang) (transitive) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill.

Translations

Noun

slump (plural slumps)

1. A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
   1. (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
      • 2004, Jonathan Tolins, The Last Sunday in June

        TOM. We haven't had sex with each other in five months.

        MICHAEL. We're in a slump, I know that."

2. A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
3. (Britain, dialect) A boggy place.
4. (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
5. (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.

Derived terms

• slumplike

Translations

Anagrams

• Plums, lumps, plums

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb slumpa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?mp/

Noun

slump m (definite singular slumpen, indefinite plural slumpar, definite plural slumpane)

1. random event, chance, happenstance

   Eg valde han ut på slump.

   I picked it randomly.

2. a good amount, quite a bit

   Eg vann ein god slump pengar i går.

   I won quite a bit of money yesterday.

Verb

slump

1. imperative of slumpa

Further reading

• “slump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Noun

slump m (plural slumps)

1. slump (decline)

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

slump c

1. chance, happenstance

Declension

Derived terms

• slumpartikel

Related terms

• slumpvariabel
• slumpa

English

Etymology

From Middle English horien (“to rush, impel”), probably a variation of hurren (“to vibrate rapidly, buzz”), from Proto-Germanic *hurzan? (“to rush”) (compare Middle High German hurren (“to hasten”), Norwegian hurre (“to whirl around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?ers- (“to run”) (compare Latin curr? (“I run”), Tocharian A kursär/Tocharian B kwärsar (“league; course”)). Related to hurr, horse, rush.

Alternative etymology derives hurry as a variant of harry, which see.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??.i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h??.i/ (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• (US) IPA^(key): [?h?.i] (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• Rhymes: -?ri

Noun

hurry (countable and uncountable, plural hurries)

1. Rushed action.
2. Urgency.

3. (American football) an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
4. (music) A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.

Derived terms

• in a hurry

Translations

Verb

hurry (third-person singular simple present hurries, present participle hurrying, simple past and past participle hurried)

1. (intransitive) To do things quickly.
2. (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.

3. (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
4. (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

   • the rapid Stream presently draws him in , carries him away , and hurries him down violently.
5. (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
6. (mining) To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.
   • 1842, The Condition and Treatment of the Children Employed in the Mines, page 45:

     Elizabeth Day, aged seventeen […] "I have been nearly nine years in the pit. I trapped for two years when I first went, and have hurried ever since. I have hurried for my father until a year ago. I have to help to riddle and fill, […]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:rush

Translations

See also

• haste
• hurry up
• di di mau