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hop | heap |

As an adjective hop

is hollow, sunken.

As a noun heap is

heap.

hop

English

(wikipedia hop)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hoppen, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A short jump
  • A jump on one leg.
  • A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that take place on private plane.
  • (sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
  • (US, dated) A dance.
  • (computing, telecommunications) The sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.
  • Derived terms
    * bunny hop * car hop * on the hop * sock hop

    Verb

    (hopp)
  • To jump a short distance.
  • * 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
  • When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
  • To jump on one foot.
  • To be in state of energetic activity.
  • Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop .
    The sudden rush of customers had everyone in the shop hopping .
  • To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
  • I hopped a plane over here as soon as I heard the news.
    He was trying to hop a ride in an empty trailer headed north.
    He hopped a train to California.
  • (usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
  • We were party-hopping all weekend.
    We had to island hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.
  • (obsolete) To walk lame; to limp.
  • (Dryden)
  • To dance.
  • (Smollett)
    Synonyms
    (jump a short distance) jump, leap

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the plant ( ) from whose flowers, beer or ale is brewed
  • (usually plural) the , dried and used to brew beer etc.
  • (US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
  • * 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 177:
  • ‘You've been shot full of hop and kept under it until you're as crazy as two waltzing mice.’
  • The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
  • Derived terms
    * hopback * hoppy

    Verb

    (hopp)
  • To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
  • (Mortimer)

    Etymology 3

    (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a narcotic drug, usually opium
  • Derived terms
    * hop joint

    Anagrams

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    heap

    English

    (wikipedia heap)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • a heap of vassals and slaves
  • * W. Black
  • He had heaps of friends.
  • A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  • a heap of earth or stones
  • * Dryden
  • Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
  • A great number or large quantity of things.
  • * Bishop Burnet
  • a vast heap , both of places of scripture and quotations
  • * Robert Louis Stevenson
  • I have noticed a heap of things in my life.
  • (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=May 9 , author=Jonathan Wilson , title=Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Every break seemed dangerous and Falcao clearly had the beating of Amorebieta. Others, being forced to stretch a foot behind them to control Arda Turan's 34th-minute cross, might simply have lashed a shot on the turn; Falcao, though, twisted back on to his left foot, leaving Amorebieta in a heap , and thumped in an inevitable finish – his 12th goal in 15 European matches this season.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (heap)
  • To pile in a heap.
  • He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
  • To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
  • Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
    News of that vanished Arabian,
    A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.
  • To supply in great quantity.
  • They heaped praise upon their newest hero.

    Derived terms

    * heap up

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