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HOP

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Irregular inflected forms: hopped    , hopping   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("hop" is a kind of...):

jump; jumping (the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground)

Derivation:

hop (jump lightly)

hop (make a jump forward or upward)

hop (jump across)

hop (move quickly from one place to another)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An informal dance where popular music is played

Synonyms:

hop; record hop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("hop" is a kind of...):

dance (a party for social dancing)

Derivation:

hop (jump lightly)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

hop; hops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hop" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hop"):

bine; common hop; common hops; European hop; Humulus lupulus (European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors; cultivated in America)

American hop; Humulus americanus (native American plant sometimes confused with the European hop)

Humulus japonicus; Japanese hop (ornamental vine native to eastern Asia; cultivated for its variegated foliage)

Holonyms ("hop" is a member of...):

genus Humulus; Humulus (hops: hardy perennial vines of Europe, North America and central and eastern Asia producing a latex sap; in some classifications included in the family Urticaceae)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.

Example:

He hopped rides all over the country

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "hop" is one way to...):

travel (undergo transportation as in a vehicle)

Verb group:

hop (move quickly from one place to another)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Jump lightly

Synonyms:

hop; hop-skip; skip

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "hop" is one way to...):

bound; jump; leap; spring (move forward by leaps and bounds)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Also:

hop on (get up on the back of)

Derivation:

hop (the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot))

hop (an informal dance where popular music is played)

hopper ((baseball) a hit that travels along the ground)

hopper (funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below)

hopper (someone who hops)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make a jump forward or upward

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "hop" is one way to...):

bound; jump; leap; spring (move forward by leaps and bounds)

Verb group:

hop (jump across)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

hop (the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Jump across

Example:

He hopped the bush

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "hop" is one way to...):

clear; top (pass by, over, or under without making contact)

Verb group:

hop (make a jump forward or upward)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

hop (the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot))

Sense 5

Meaning:

Traverse as if by a short airplane trip

Example:

Hop the Pacific Ocean

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "hop" is one way to...):

cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse (travel across or pass over)

Verb group:

hop (move quickly from one place to another)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Move quickly from one place to another

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "hop" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Verb group:

hop (travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.)

hop (traverse as if by a short airplane trip)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

The crowds hop in the streets

The streets hop with crowds

Derivation:

hop (the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot))

hopper (someone who hops)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Then he hopped down at my feet and ate all the corn he wanted.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I am a hop merchant myself, and as I have an income of seven or eight hundred, we found ourselves comfortably off, and took a nice eighty-pound-a-year villa at Norbury.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Rovers Minerva-II1A and II1-B were released from the Hayabusa 2 ‘mothership’ after a three-and-a-half-year journey and began hopping their way across the Ryugu asteroid’s craggy surface on Friday, September 21.

(First Ever Video of Asteroid Sent Back to Earth by Japanese Rovers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Hops oil has antimicrobial and antiseptic properties and is also reported to have diuretic and sedative effect.

(Hops Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

A great dark shadow disengaged itself and hopped out into the clear moonlight.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dashing at the black man, he smote at him with such good will that the other let his knife tinkle into the roadway, and hopped howling to a safer distance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His left leg was cut off close by the hip, and under the left shoulder he carried a crutch, which he managed with wonderful dexterity, hopping about upon it like a bird.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

An alcoholic beverage usually made from malted cereal grain (as barley), flavored with hops, and brewed by slow fermentation.

(Beer, NCI Thesaurus)

From ballet and Zumba to Jazzercise, salsa, techno, swing, ballroom, and hip-hop, there are plenty of ways to have fun as you get fit.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When the frog was got in, it hopped at once half the length of the boat, and then over my head, backward and forward, daubing my face and clothes with its odious slime.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)