Hopper

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that hops.
  • n. A usually funnel-shaped container in which materials, such as grain or coal, are stored in readiness for dispensation.
  • n. A freight car with a door in the floor through which materials are unloaded.
  • n. A box in which a bill is placed pending formal introduction before a legislature.
  • n. Informal A place in which something is held in readiness: a studio with many potential blockbusters in the hopper.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
  • n. A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
  • n. One who hops.
  • n. The immature form of a locust
  • n. An artificial fishing lure
  • n. An escapement lever in a piano; a grasshopper.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which, hops.
  • n. 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.
  • n. See Grasshopper, 2.
  • n. A game. See Hopscotch.
  • n.
  • n. See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.
  • n. The larva of a cheese fly.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who or that which hops.
  • n. Specifically — A cheese-hopper.
  • n. A butterfly: same as skipper
  • n. A grasshopper
  • n. A saltatorial homopterous insect; a cercopid, in a broad sense: as, a froghopper; a tree-hopper.
  • n. A saltatorial beetle; one of the Halticidœ.
  • n. A seal of the second year.
  • n. A wild swan.
  • n. plural A game in which the players hop or leap on one leg; hop-scotch.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A tray or basket in which a sower carries seed; a seed-basket.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Same as hopper-car.
  • n. In a double-action pianoforte movement, a piece attached to the back of a key to raise the hammer.
  • n. Same as hoppet, 3.
  • n. A hop-picker.
  • n. In brewing, a vat in which the infusion of hops is prepared to be added to the wort.
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
  • n. funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
  • n. (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
  • n. someone who hops
  • n. a machine used for picking hops
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    receptacle    jumper    machine   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    grasshopper    hopscotch    frog    grape    leaf    tree    dumping scow   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    chut   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cropper    Popper    bopper    chopper    copper    cropper    dropper    improper    popper    proper   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    chute