hop : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hop	by the DICT Development Group
9 results for hop
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hop n the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot) 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 Synonym(s): hop, hops an informal dance where popular music is played Synonym(s): hop, record hop v jump lightly Synonym(s): hop, skip, hop-skip move quickly from one place to another travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.; "She hopped a train to Chicago"; "He hopped rides all over the country" traverse as if by a short airplane trip; "Hop the Pacific Ocean" jump across; "He hopped the bush" make a jump forward or upward
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hip \Hip\, n. [OE. hepe, AS. he[a2]pe; cf. OHG. hiufo a bramble bush.] (Bot.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose ({Rosa canina}). [Written also {hop}, {hep}.] {Hip tree} (Bot.), the dog-rose.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hop \Hop\, v. t. To impregnate with hops. --Mortimer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hop \Hop\, v. i. To gather hops. Usage: [Perhaps only in the form {Hopping}, vb. n.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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). 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} (Zo[94]l.), a small flea beetle ({Haltica concinna}), very injurious to hops. {Hop fly} (Zo[94]l.), an aphid ({Phorodon humuli}), very injurious to hop vines. {Hop froth fly} (Zo[94]l.), 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} (Zo[94]l.), 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hop \Hop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Hopped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hopping}.] [OE. hoppen to hop, leap, dance, AS. hoppian; akin to Icel. & Sw. hoppa, Dan. hoppe, D. huppelen, G. h[81]pfen.] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hop \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.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
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 {UUCPNET} 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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
hop 1. One point-to-point transmission in a series required to get a message from point A to point B on a {store and forward} network. On such networks (including {UUCPNET} and {FidoNet}), an important inter-machine metric is the hop count of the shortest path between them. This can be more significant than their geographical separation. Each {exclamation mark} in a {bang path} represents one hop. 2. One direct host-to-host connection forming part of the route between two hosts in a {routed} {network} such as the {Internet}. Some {protocols} place an upper limit on the hop count in order to detect routing loops. 3. To {log in} to a {remote} computer, especially via {rlogin} or {telnet}. "I'll hop over to foovax to FTP that." [{Jargon File}] (1997-06-25)