(v. i.) To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.
(v. i.) To walk lame; to limp; to halt.
(v. i.) To dance.
(n.) A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.
(n.) A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball.
(n.) A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).
(n.) The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.
(n.) The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip.
(v. t.) To impregnate with hops.
(v. i.) To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.]
Example Sentences:
(1) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
(2) Proceptivity (hop-darting) was facilitated by progesterone in females, but was never observed in males.
(3) The urinary HOP ratio immediately after abstinence from smoking was proportional to the mean daily number of cigarettes smoked in the past.
(4) It's certainly fun, cheap and eco-friendly and I would definitely consider it for hops within the UK, but the specific London to Paris car-pooling service is not one I'd like to experience again myself.
(5) The data suggest that a positive HOP test result is a good indication that fertilisation will occur, although a negative HOP test result does not necessarily mean that fertilisation will not take place.
(6) It was found in the groups operated 0-1, 2-3 and 4-5 weeks after birth, that the hopping reaction developed normally.
(7) We spent a lot of time there and would bar hop all around Camden, ending up at Marathon for a kebab as it was always the last place open.’ Photograph: Robert Lang Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘This is Loraine, when late one night we ended up at a friend’s house who had been given a lifesize medical skeleton.
(8) The present study deals with urinary free and total hydroxyproline (HOP) in a group of adults between 63-93 years old, admitted in a sanatorium for geriatries.
(9) Not so in 2012, with the shortlist for outstanding achievement in dance revealed as Edward Watson for The Metamorphosis at Covent Garden; Sylvie Guillem for 6,000 Miles Away at Sadler's Wells and Tommy Franzen for Some Like it Hip Hop at the Peacock.
(10) Over the past 50 years, composer Steve Reich’s music has had a powerful impact – not only on the contemporary classical world, but also on legions of rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, and electronic musicians.
(11) Sitting at the table today, Archie is doing his best to look the part – in time-honoured hip-hop style, there is an inspirational motto tattooed on his forearm in flowing script – and he and Foster have an impressive line in managerial hyperbole: "We believe that whatever record label we work for, we can change that label for the better because we understand what kids want to listen to."
(12) This lovely coastal route also gives you an excuse to hop on the Skye ferry, which plies its way over the narrows to Kylerhea from the start of this walk.
(13) Conscious hip-hop may have once died an untimely death, but its resurrection is good news for everyone, especially if you've got shares in Eastpak.
(14) Yet here comes Bloomberg — a former Democrat turned Republican turned independent who many thought might run for president himself on a third-party ticket — throwing his support behind Obama , citing climate as the proximate reason for his hop off the fence: Our climate is changing.
(15) The response to treatment at the end of each 2-week period was based upon three measures: the physician's global impressions; the patients' global impressions; and semiquantitative ratings of strength, muscle tone, DTRs, walking, hopping, and running.
(16) But as we’ve gathered data, we’ve realised that there are more and more reports that people are using cruise ships in order to get to launch pads, if you will, sort of closer to the conflict zones of Syria and Iraq.” Cruise ships, which often make repeated stops, offer an added benefit by allowing would-be jihadis to hop off undetected at any number of ports making efforts to track them more difficult.
(17) Student days and getting drunk, our worst dates, how close we are to our parents, sausages, setting up Lindy Hop dance classes for gay people.
(18) This stands in high contrast to many western hip-hop stars who have been slow to relinquish control of their "intellectual" property in the same way (take Jay-Z's Empire State of Mind, for example, which quickly generated a host of YouTube tributes that were quickly removed by EMI ).
(19) But the star – who is better known for divisive wins at awards ceremonies and singing about the merits of charity shop bargains – was one of many hip-hop and urban artists who made their voices heard after the grand jury’s decision to not indict Wilson.
(20) ‘People were looking for a focus for their anxieties, and Greenham was it’ Read more People were sitting on the wall, drinking champagne and beers, so I hopped up to join them.
Hopscotch
Definition:
(n.) A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The maternal and zygotic effect phenotypes of mutations at the l(1)hopscotch (l(1)hop) locus are described.
(2) It is generally assumed that games such as hopscotch, marbles, tag and ball games--because of their fixed rules--leave little room for personal fantasy or creative enterprise, which often characterise free play.
(3) Which is why I recently found myself in Cambridge, watching a classroom of Year 5 girls – 9-10 year-olds – practising their programming skills on iPad apps like Hopscotch, Move the Turtle and Kodable.
(4) Steve Morse, who lives near the Twisp fire, said he watched flames “kind of hopscotching these ridges, working toward our house.” He called the firefighters’ deaths horrible.
(5) There are ways to go further, including learn-to-code apps like Tynker , Hopscotch , ScratchJr and Hakitzu that can be downloaded and used at home; an online coding contest Shaun the Sheep’s Game Academy began earlier this year.
(6) That ties in to another debate fuelled not just by the new curriculum in England, but also by the emergence of learn-to-code apps like Tynker, ScratchJr, Hakitzu, Hopscotch and others: whether apps designed for younger children do a good enough job leading them on to full programming later on.
(7) Girls such as Halimatu Usman in Borno and Yobe states just want to be able to attend school and play suwe (hopscotch) at break-time without the threat of insurgent gunfires.
(8) As Clinton hopscotched across a small set of critical swing states in those final days, top aides sauntered to the back cabin of her campaign plane daily to brief the traveling press on the state of the race.
(9) Jocelyn Leavitt , CEO and CoFounder, Hopscotch I'm a true believer in Sandberg's message.
(10) When the child is placed in a specific "hopscotch" position, otherwise obscure leg and foot deformities become readily apparent, and early treatment is then made possible.
(11) Ahed Tamimi, 12, plays hopscotch, likes movies about mermaids and teases her brothers at home in Nabi Saleh.
(12) We will die fighting," said Tijani, the vigilante leader, over the cheerful cries of two schoolgirls playing teyete, a local version of hopscotch outside.Since the bombings, he has had to turn away two grandfathers in their sixties who volunteered to join the vigilante squad.
(13) Apps including Hopscotch , Kodable , Light-bot , and Hakitzu are finding an audience through the app stores, while the Bee-Bot programmable floor robot also has a companion app.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hopscotch is one of the coding apps being used at the school.
(15) Kids were having a wild time, skateboarding, leaping onto climbing frames, playing hopscotch, tagging the giant slate drawing wall.
(16) Teach younger children how to draw a hopscotch grid, get older ones to channel their inner Banksy (preferably without then taking sections of wall home and eBaying them).
(17) A game of prime number hopscotch gives the reader a real feeling for their wild behaviour, as do the page numbers, which vary according to whether they are prime or not.
(18) She plays hopscotch and football with her schoolfriends, likes movies about mermaids, teases her brothers, skips with a rope in the sitting room.