HOPPING

HOP

hop

(verb) travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.; “She hopped a train to Chicago”; “He hopped rides all over the country”

hop, skip, hop-skip

(verb) jump lightly

hop

(verb) make a jump forward or upward

hop

(verb) jump across; “He hopped the bush”

hop

(verb) traverse as if by a short airplane trip; “Hop the Pacific Ocean”

hop

(verb) move quickly from one place to another

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

hopping (countable and uncountable, plural hoppings)

(British) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.

The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent

Etymology 2

Verb

hopping

present participle of hop

Noun

hopping (countable and uncountable, plural hoppings)

The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.

(countable, physics) A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.

Adjective

hopping (comparative more hopping, superlative most hopping)

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

Proper noun

Hopping (plural Hoppings)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hopping is the 22856^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1120 individuals. Hopping is most common among White (92.59%) individuals.

Source: Wiktionary

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Hop"ping, n.

Definition: The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing. Hopping Dick (Zoöl.), a thrush of Jamaica (Merula leucogenys), resembling the English blackbird in its familiar manners, agreeable song, and dark plumage.

Hop"ping, n. Etym: [See 3rd Hop.]

Definition: A gathering of hops.

HOP

Hop, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Hopping.] Etym: [OE. hoppen to hop, leap, dance, AS. hoppian; akin to Icel. & Sw. hoppa, Dan. hoppe, D. huppelen, G. hüpfen.]

1. To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do. [Birds] hopping from spray to spray. Dryden.

2. To walk lame; to limp; to halt. Dryden.

3. To dance. Smollett.

Hop, n.

1. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.

2. A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [Colloq.] Hop, skip (or step), and jump, a game or athletic sport in which the participants cover as much ground as possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession. Addison.

Hop, n. Etym: [OE. hoppe; akin to D. hop, hoppe, OHG. hopfo, G. hopfen; cf. LL. hupa, W. hopez, Armor. houpez, and Icel. humall, SW. & Dan. humle.]

1. (Bot.)

Definition: A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).

2. The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.

3. The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip. Hop back. (Brewing) See under 1st Back.

– Hop clover (Bot.), a species of yellow clover having heads like hops in miniature (Trifolium agrarium, and T. procumbens).

– Hop flea (Zoöl.), a small flea beetle (Haltica concinna), very injurious to hops.

– Hop fly (Zoöl.), an aphid (Phorodon humuli), very injurious to hop vines.

– Hop froth fly (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect (Aphrophora interrupta), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines.

– Hop hornbeam (Bot.), an American tree of the genus Ostrya (O.Virginica) the American ironwood; also, a European species (O. vulgaris).

– Hop moth (Zoöl.), a moth (Hypena humuli), which in the larval state is very injurious to hop vines.

– Hop picker, one who picks hops.

– Hop pole, a pole used to support hop vines.

– Hop tree (Bot.), a small American tree (Ptelia trifoliata), having broad, flattened fruit in large clusters, sometimes used as a substitute for hops.

– Hop vine (Bot.), the climbing vine or stalk of the hop.

Hop, v. t.

Definition: To impregnate with hops. Mortimer.

Hop, v. i.

Definition: To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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