Hop
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
hop
n 1: the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially
on one foot)
2: twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged
in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used
in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
[syn: {hop}, {hops}]
3: an informal dance where popular music is played [syn: {hop},
{record hop}]
v 1: jump lightly [syn: {hop}, {skip}, {hop-skip}]
2: move quickly from one place to another
3: travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.; "She hopped a
train to Chicago"; "He hopped rides all over the country"
4: traverse as if by a short airplane trip; "Hop the Pacific
Ocean"
5: jump across; "He hopped the bush"
6: make a jump forward or upward
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hop \Hop\, n.
1. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a
jump; a spring.
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2. A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [Colloq.]
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{Hop, skip and jump}, {Hop, step and a jump} or {Hop, step
and jump},
1. a game or athletic sport in which the participants cover
as much ground as possible by a hop, stride, and jump in
succession.
2. a short distance. --Addison.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hop \Hop\, n. [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.) A climbing plant ({Humulus Lupulus}), having a
long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its
fruit (hops).
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2. The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in
brewing to give a bitter taste.
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3. The fruit of the dog-rose. See {Hip}.
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{Hop back}. (Brewing) See under 1st {Back}.
{Hop clover} (Bot.), a species of yellow clover having heads
like hops in miniature ({Trifolium agrarium}, and
{Trifolium procumbens}).
{Hop flea} (Zool.), a small flea beetle ({Haltica concinna}),
very injurious to hops.
{Hop fly} (Zool.), an aphid ({Phorodon humuli}), very
injurious to hop vines.
{Hop froth fly} (Zool.), 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}
({Ostrya Virginica}) the American ironwood; also, a
European species ({Ostrya vulgaris}).
{Hop moth} (Zool.), 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.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hop \Hop\ (h[o^]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Hopped} (h[o^]pt); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Hopping} (h[o^]p"p[i^]ng).] [OE. hoppen to hop,
leap, dance, AS. hoppian; akin to Icel. & Sw. hoppa, Dan.
hoppe, D. huppelen, G. h["u]pfen.]
1. To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or
jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.
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[Birds] hopping from spray to spray. --Dryden.
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2. To walk lame; to limp; to halt. --Dryden.
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3. To dance. --Smollett.
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from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
hop
1. n. [common] One file transmission in a series required to get a
file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network. On such
networks (including the old UUCP network and and {FidoNet}), an
important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest
path between them, which can be more significant than their
geographical separation. See {bang path}.
2. v. [rare] To log in to a remote machine, esp. via rlogin or telnet.
"I'll hop over to foovax to FTP that."
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
281 Moby Thesaurus words for "hop":
Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Highland fling,
Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill,
Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, aeroplane, airlift,
airplane, alcohol, amble, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, and jump,
anodyne, bal, bal costume, bal masque, ball, balloon, barb,
barbiturate, barbiturate pill, barge, barn dance, be airborne,
black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven,
blue velvet, bounce, bound, bowl along, broad jump, buck, buckjump,
bundle, calmative, canter, capriole, chloral hydrate, clear, clog,
clop, clump, codeine, codeine cough syrup, country dance, cruise,
curvet, dance, demivolt, depressant, depressor, dolly, dope,
downer, drag, drift, fancy-dress ball, ferry, flight, flit,
flounce, fly, flying jump, foot, footfall, footslog, footstep,
fox-trot, galliard, gallop, gelandesprung, get, git, glide,
goofball, grand jete, halt, handspring, hard stuff, heroin,
high jump, hightail, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hoof, hoofbeat,
hop along, horse, hotfoot, hover, hurdle, hydroplane, hypnotic,
jet, jete, jig, jog, jolt, jump, jump over, jump shot, jump turn,
jump-hop, jump-off, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, lavolta, leap,
leap over, leapfrog, limp, liquor, long jump, lop, lope, lotus,
lumber, lunge, lurch, make tracks, mask, masked ball, masque,
masquerade, masquerade ball, meperidine, methadone, mince, mixer,
morphia, morphine, morris, narcotic, navigate, negotiate, opiate,
opium, overjump, overleap, overskip, pace, pacifier, paddle,
pain killer, paregoric, peg, pen yan, phenobarbital,
phenobarbital sodium, piaffe, piaffer, plod, pole vault, pounce,
pounce on, pounce upon, prance, prom, promenade, purple heart,
quietener, rack, rainbow, record hop, red, roll, run,
running broad jump, running high jump, sail, sailplane, sashay,
saunter, saut de basque, scag, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, seaplane,
secobarbital sodium, sedative, shake, shamble, shimmy, shindig,
shindy, shit, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, ski jump, skip, skitter,
sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, slink,
slither, slog, slouch, smack, soar, sodium thiopental, solo,
somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, spring, sprint,
square dance, stag dance, stagger, stalk, stamp, start,
start aside, start up, steeplechase, step, step along, step lively,
stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stump, swagger,
swing, take the air, take wing, tap-dance, tar, tea dance,
test flight, the dansant, tittup, toddle, totter, tour jete,
traipse, tranquilizer, tread, trip, trot, trudge, turps, updive,
upleap, upspring, vault, volplane, waddle, waltz, wamble,
white stuff, wiggle, wing, wobble, yellow, yellow jacket
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