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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
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 22856th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1120 individuals. Hopping is most common among White (92.59%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
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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