hopper

¹

[ hop-er ]

noun

1. a person or thing that hops. hop.
2. 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.

3. any of various jumping insects, as grasshoppers or leafhoppers.
4. Australian. kangaroo.
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.
6. Railroads. hopper car.
7. U.S. Politics. a box into which a proposed legislative bill is dropped and thereby officially introduced.
8. one of the pieces at each side of a hopper casement.

Hopper

²

[ hop-er ]

noun

1. Edward, 1882–1967, U.S. painter and etcher.
2. Grace Murray, 1906–92, U.S. naval officer and computer scientist.
3. (William) De Wolf [d, uh, -w, oo, lf], 1858–1935, U.S. actor.

Hopper

¹

/ ˈhɒpə /

noun

1. HopperEdward18821967MUSARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Edward. 1882–1967, US painter, noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes

hopper

²

/ ˈhɒpə /

noun

1. a person or thing that hops
2. 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
3. a machine used for picking hops
4. any of various long-legged hopping insects, esp the grasshopper, leaf hopper, and immature locust
5. Also calledhoppercar an open-topped railway truck for bulk transport of loose minerals, etc, unloaded through doors on the underside
6. another name for cocopan
7. computing a device formerly used for holding punched cards and feeding them to a card punch or card reader

Hopper

/ hŏp′ər /

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hopper¹

Middle English word dating back to 1200–50; hop ¹, -er ¹

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. in the hopper, Informal. in preparation; about to be realized:

   Plans for the class reunion are in the hopper.

Example Sentences

Nearly vertical conveyor belts lifted dry ingredients high up to be deposited into hoppers where they were mixed with water and then the wet concrete was poured into waiting trucks below.

From Los Angeles Times

“That way, companies don’t think you’re a job hopper,” she said.

From Seattle Times

They said Grace employees were responsible for loading the hopper cars, plugging the holes of any cars leaking vermiculite and occasionally cleaned up material that spilled in the rail yard.

From Seattle Times

It was most likely a mid-speed hopper, something like a swamp wallaby.

From Science Daily

The centre still contains the grain hoppers which are individually numbered and almost reach the full height of the building.

From BBC

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