hopper

[ hop-er ]

/ ˈhɒp ər /

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noun

a person or thing that hops.

Informal. a person who travels or moves frequently from one place or situation to another (usually used in combination): a two-week tour designed for energetic city-hoppers.

any of various jumping insects, as grasshoppers or leafhoppers.

Australian. kangaroo.

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.

Railroads. hopper car.

U.S. Politics. a box into which a proposed legislative bill is dropped and thereby officially introduced.

one of the pieces at each side of a hopper casement.

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in the hopper, Informal. in preparation; about to be realized: Plans for the class reunion are in the hopper.

Origin of hopper

Middle English word dating back to 1200–50; see origin at hop¹, -er¹

Hopper

[ hop-er ]

/ ˈhɒp ər /

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Edward,1882–1967, U.S. painter and etcher.

Grace Murray,1906–92, U.S. naval officer and computer scientist.

(William) De Wolf

[duh-woo lf] /də wʊlf/, 1858–1935, U.S. actor.

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Examples from the Web for hopper

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Hopper (1882-1967), had his first major retrospective at the Whitney in 1964.
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In the decade following World War I, Hopper settled on a vein of imagery that has been his special glory ever since.
The Stacks: Edward Hopper’s X-Ray Vision|Hilton Kramer|October 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hopper was also very interested in what was taking place in the art scene.
Dennis Hopper: The Missing Years|Liza Foreman|June 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

From 1960 to 1967, Hopper disappeared from Hollywood, and this trove of images helps document how he spent his time.
Dennis Hopper: The Missing Years|Liza Foreman|June 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Whereupon he began perforce playing his old game of artful dodging, exercising his best powers as a hopper and skipper.
A Reversible Santa Claus|Meredith Nicholson
Sand and water must be supplied, of course, from a hopper, to these smooth cutting discs of iron or copper.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines|Andrew Ure
Each machine has but just sufficient powder in its hopper to run until a new supply can reach it.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge|Various
Then April came, but not the ship; now it was just as well that the mill was frozen up, for they had nothing to put in the hopper.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. I: Acadia, 1610-1613|Various
The dart that shot from his eyes was of an aggressive honesty; and Mr. Hopper's, after an attempt at defiance, were dropped.
The Crisis, Complete|Winston Churchill

British Dictionary definitions for hopper

hopper

/ (ˈhɒpə) /

noun

a person or thing that hops

a funnel-shaped chamber or reservoir from which solid materials can be discharged under gravity into a receptacle below, esp for feeding fuel to a furnace, loading a railway truck with grain, etc

a machine used for picking hops

any of various long-legged hopping insects, esp the grasshopper, leaf hopper, and immature locust

Also called: hoppercar an open-topped railway truck for bulk transport of loose minerals, etc, unloaded through doors on the underside

Southern African another name for cocopan

computing a device formerly used for holding punched cards and feeding them to a card punch or card reader

Hopper

/ (ˈhɒpə) /

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Edward. 1882–1967, US painter, noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes

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Word Origin and History for hopper

hopper

n.2

"container with narrow opening at bottom," late 13c., perhaps an agent noun from hop (v.) via notion of grain juggling in a mill hopper.

hopper

n.1

"person or animal that hops," mid-13c., agent noun from hop (v.). From c.1200 as a surname, and perhaps existing in Old English (cf. hoppestre "female dancer").

Science definitions for hopper

Hopper

[ hŏp′ər ]

Grace Murray 1906-1992

American mathematician and computer programmer who in 1951 conceived the idea for an internal computer program, called a compiler, that scanned a set of alphanumeric instructions (such as words and symbols) and compiled a set of binary instructions executed by the machine. Her ideas were widely influential in the development of programming languages, in particular COBOL.

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