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

One worker, who asked not to be named in order to protect her future employment prospects, left a tile-making job to become a welder, constructing a variety of rail cars, from hoppers to gondolas.

From ProPublica

Load the pellets in the hopper, set the temp, tap a button, and the grill gets to work.

From Popular-Science

News of the plan prompted an immediate 47% surge in searches for flights to Europe, according to travel analytics firm Hopper.

From Time

Further reassured by photos that showed the trees with their creator Kristi Pimentel in her Florida home studio, Hopper ordered three.

From Time

Hopper, who collects sea glass in Oceanside, California, was impressed by their craftsmanship and also clicked through after seeing the post several times.

From Time

Stream House of Cards and other Netflix originals right from the Hopper.

From The Daily Beast

Edward Hopper has long been a living classic of American art.

From The Daily Beast

Hopper (1882-1967), had his first major retrospective at the Whitney in 1964.

From The Daily Beast

In the decade following World War I, Hopper settled on a vein of imagery that has been his special glory ever since.

From The Daily Beast

Among the latter are the rarely seen etchings Hopper produced in 1915–18 when he was doing very little painting.

From The Daily Beast

Each machine has but just sufficient powder in its hopper to run until a new supply can reach it.

From Project Gutenberg

The only kind to use are short-hopper closets with a trap that opens into the soil-pipe above the floor.

From Project Gutenberg

The star ship had not lifted, that message had found its way south, passed along by hopper and merman.

From Project Gutenberg

Dr. Hopper wrote a number of poems that were publisht in three volumes.

From Project Gutenberg

Edward Hopper came in 1868 and on June 29, 1869, he was installed as pastor.

From Project Gutenberg

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