Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that hops.
- noun A usually funnel-shaped container in which materials, such as grain or coal, are stored in readiness for dispensation.
- noun A freight car with a door in the floor through which materials are unloaded.
- noun A box in which a bill is placed pending formal introduction before a legislature.
- noun Informal A place in which something is held in readiness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hop-picker.
- noun In brewing, a vat in which the infusion of hops is prepared to be added to the wort.
- noun In geology, a hopper-shaped pit or depression in the land.
- Having the form of an inverted pyramid: as, a hopper ship, the bottom of which consists of a series of hoppers: a type of vessel used on the Great Lakes for carrying bulk cargoes.
- noun One who or that which hops.
- noun Specifically — A cheese-hopper.
- noun A butterfly: same as
skipper - noun A grasshopper
- noun A saltatorial homopterous insect; a cercopid, in a broad sense: as, a froghopper; a tree-hopper.
- noun A saltatorial beetle; one of the Halticidœ.
- noun A seal of the second year.
- noun A wild swan.
- noun plural A game in which the players hop or leap on one leg; hop-scotch.
- noun A trough, usually shaped like an inverted cone, through which grain or anything to be ground or crushed passes into a mill: so called because at one time it had a hopping or shaking motion. It is now stationary, and leads the grain to the shaking-shoe.
- noun A tray or basket in which a sower carries seed; a seed-basket.
- noun A boat having a compartment with a movable bottom, to receive the mud or gravel from a dredging-machine and convey it to deep water, where, on opening the bottom, the mud or gravel falls out. Also called
hopper-barge . - noun Same as
hopper-car . - noun In a double-action pianoforte movement, a piece attached to the back of a key to raise the hammer.
- noun Same as
hoppet , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, hops.
- noun A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; , into a car.
- noun (Mus.) See
Grasshopper , 2. - noun A game. See
Hopscotch . - noun See
Grasshopper , and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, underFrog ,Grape ,Leaf , andTree . - noun The larva of a cheese fly.
- noun (Naut.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also
dumping scow . - noun (Metal.) the apparatus at the top of a blast furnace, through which the charge is introduced, while the gases are retained.
- noun a rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the floor, through which it falls.
- noun a water-closet, without a movable pan, in which the receptacle is a funnel standing on a draintrap.
- noun a faucet or valve for flushing the hopper of a water-closet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often
funnel -shaped. - noun A funnel-shaped section at the top of a
drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes. - noun One who
hops . - noun The
immature form of alocust - noun An artificial
fishing lure - noun An escapement lever in a piano; a
grasshopper .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
- noun funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
- noun (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
- noun someone who hops
- noun a machine used for picking hops
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What's interesting about the mental hopper is that when something goes in there, I can usually figure out a way to make it happen (except sex at 13).
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I'd say that artificial foam hopper is closer to a fly than a 4 au natural bunny pike fly.
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What's interesting about the mental hopper is that when something goes in there, I can usually figure out a way to make it happen (except sex at 14).
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I'd say that artificial foam hopper is closer to a fly than a 4 au natural bunny pike fly.
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A pipe is placed just beneath the surface of the water, and this pipe leads to a pump on shore which sucks the berries into a metal box called a hopper.
Unfinished Symphony V.C. Andrews® 1997
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A pipe is placed just beneath the surface of the water, and this pipe leads to a pump on shore which sucks the berries into a metal box called a hopper.
Unfinished Symphony V.C. Andrews® 1997
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Then, we're off for Klah ... if I can find the settings on the D-hopper, that is.
Myth-Nomers And Im-Pervections Asprin, Robert 1987
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Under the hopper were the ends of two inclined chutes extending out sidewise beyond the car -- one to the right and one to the left -- and over the slab molds on each side.
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette
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Taking advantage of this fact, the fruit-grower may jar them on sheets; or, in large orchards, into a large canvas hopper, which is wheeled from tree to tree upon a wheelbarrow-like frame, and under the apex of which is a tin can into which the insects roll.
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Oh, and they also will have the most lottery balls in next year's hopper, which is shaping up to be one of the worst drafts in recent history; maybe they'll wind up with Blake Griffin, who looks like another meh pro to me.
slumry commented on the word hopper
That which hops, or:
5. a funnel-shaped chamber or bin in which loose material, as grain or coal, is stored temporarily, being filled through the top and dispensed through the bottom.
July 21, 2007
sionnach commented on the word hopper
Name of the offspring of Sean Penn and Robin Wright.
March 8, 2008