What's the difference between cop and pop?

Cop


Definition:

  • (n.) The top of a thing; the head; a crest.
  • (n.) A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
  • (n.) A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
  • (n.) Same as Merlon.
  • (n.) A policeman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
  • (2) Copolymer 1 (Cop 1) is a synthetic basic random copolymer of amino acids that has been shown to be effective in suppression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and has been proposed as a candidate drug for multiple sclerosis.
  • (3) What the hell is the point of cops looking like this?
  • (4) Instead of inevitable defeat there is uncertain cop-out.
  • (5) COP-BLAM III therapy was given to 18 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and the therapeutic effects as well as adverse effects of the treatment were examined.
  • (6) A new electrophoretic variant of the lactate dehydrogenase B subunit was found in the erythrocytes of the COP strain of the rat.
  • (7) Three independent BFA-resistant cell lines (BER-40 from Vero cells, PtK1, and MDCK) showed cross-resistance to EDIN regarding the release of the beta-COP from the Golgi membrane by EDIN or BFA.
  • (8) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
  • (9) He shouted “Cops Lives Matter” before being drowned out with the “Bernie” chant.
  • (10) I will ask that by [next] Saturday midday the text will be transmitted to me, the president of the COP, and at that moment everyone will know where we are and the procedure to follow.
  • (11) That’s when the police riot squad arrived, because of course you cannot set fire to a bar with cops in it.” He recalled injured protestors being treated in nearby Washington Square Park and Quakers from the local church coming to help.
  • (12) Cops were smashing people with bicycles and nightsticks."
  • (13) "We're talking about payments for news tips from cops: that's been going on a hundred years, absolutely," said Murdoch.
  • (14) We sampled a sawn-off shotgun and an assault rifle, but cops do get tasers and tear gas to add some urban flavour.
  • (15) The COP regime was the most frequently used therapeutic regimen.
  • (16) "But I can assure you, if I had known that cops were sitting in car parks, they would have been deployed pretty quickly," he said.
  • (17) "There will be a meeting of the 22 countries of the COPS [the EU's political and security committee] ... if not today then tomorrow," Kouchner told reporters in Paris.
  • (18) The FBI’s “justifiable homicides” database is considered the best measure of cop killings in the US, but even the attorney general, Eric Holder, called the lack of comprehensive numbers “unacceptable” last month .
  • (19) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
  • (20) I heard him say to another cop: “I don’t even know why they told me to lock this guy up.

Pop


Definition:

  • (n.) A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off with a pop.
  • (n.) An unintoxicating beverage which expels the cork with a pop from the bottle containing it; as, ginger pop; lemon pop, etc.
  • (n.) The European redwing.
  • (v. i.) To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound; as, the muskets popped away on all sides.
  • (v. i.) To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; -- with in, out, upon, off, etc.
  • (v. i.) To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire; as, this corn pops well.
  • (v. t.) To thrust or push suddenly; to offer suddenly; to bring suddenly and unexpectedly to notice; as, to pop one's head in at the door.
  • (v. t.) To cause to pop; to cause to burst open by heat, as grains of Indian corn; as, to pop corn or chestnuts.
  • (adv.) Like a pop; suddenly; unexpectedly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
  • (2) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
  • (3) Louis CK is exploding a few myths about one of pop culture's most hallowed spaces, the sitcom writers' room.
  • (4) Just months later, Grade popped up fronting a private-equity backed bid for Pinewood from the Rank Group.
  • (5) While there's no discernible forró influence in the dreamy 80s indie-guitar music of Fortaleza's Cidadão Instigado, they do take influence from popular local style brega, a 1970s and 80s Brazilian romantic pop music.
  • (6) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
  • (7) The new generation of political leaders were the children of Elvis and the Beatles: they looked up to their older pop idols.
  • (8) I can’t,” says sufi pop singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, comparing himself unfavourably to his uncle, the late Pakistani superstar Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan .
  • (9) Can you pop round to discuss implications with me thanks andy,” it read.
  • (10) The minor differences between the sequences of POP's VH and V kappa genes and sequences used by other autoantibodies, may be responsible for this antibody's crossreactivity with myelin and, as a result, the autoimmune neuropathy.
  • (11) Aaron Ramsey, who scored the opening goal and set up Bale for the third, was outstanding, Joe Allen delivered another imperious performance in centre midfield and then there was that wonderful moment when Neil Taylor, of all people, popped up with the second goal.
  • (12) We all knew from the beginning that Little Mix would be in with a shout for the final rounds, because they were young and possessed of more than a modicum of talent and so no one … old … no matter how talented, would pop their bubble.
  • (13) Over the past 50 years, composer Steve Reich’s music has had a powerful impact – not only on the contemporary classical world, but also on legions of rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, and electronic musicians.
  • (14) It is a fun place to stay, with pop-art-inspired design, a hairdresser, a photo booth and film nights.
  • (15) A popping phenomenon was observed between the coracoacromial ligament and the greater tuberosity of the humerus, which was covered by the rotator cuff, and the coracoacromial ligament was resected with a rongeur under endoscopic visualization in all shoulders.
  • (16) Like the school friend who pops up on Facebook after 30 years, Barbie is banging on the door to come back into my life.
  • (17) Everyone has been part of it, regardless of whether you’re a dirty metalhead or a flamboyant pop fan.” • This article was amended on 1 June 2017.
  • (18) This 90s pop confection had torn tights, a sulky attitude and high regard for Quentin Tarantino.
  • (19) "If everyone on Newsnight knew it was true that Savile was a paedophile, it should not have run a tribute to someone who was molesting girls in wheelchairs before they went on to Top of the Pops .
  • (20) Inside one shop, a guard from the street happens to have popped in for a cup of tea a moment earlier, but it's not a coincidence.

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