What does Hopper mean?
Definitions for Hopper
ˈhɒp ərhop·per
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Hopper.
Princeton's WordNet
hoppernoun
funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
hoppernoun
someone who hops
"at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children"
hop-picker, hoppernoun
a machine used for picking hops
grasshopper, hoppernoun
terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
grounder, ground ball, groundball, hoppernoun
(baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
Wiktionary
hoppernoun
A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
hoppernoun
One who hops.
hoppernoun
The immature form of a locust
hoppernoun
An artificial fishing lure
To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface.
hoppernoun
An escapement lever in a piano; a grasshopper.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Hoppernoun
He who hops or jumps on one leg. Robert Ainsworth
Etymology: from hop.
Hoppernoun
Etymology: from hop.
The salt of the lake Asphaltites shooteth into perfect cubes: sometimes they are pyramidal and plain, like the hopper of a mill. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol. Sac.
Granivorous birds have the mechanism of a mill: their maw is the hopper which holds and softens the grain, letting it drop by degrees into the stomach. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.
Just at the hopper will I stand,
In my whole life I never saw grist ground,
And mark the clack how justly it will sound. Thomas Betterton.
ChatGPT
hopper
A hopper is a container used to store and dispense bulk materials uniformly, often through the use of gravity. It is generally funnel-shaped, allowing materials to flow from the top to the bottom and is used in a variety of industries including agriculture, manufacturing and construction. In computer programming, a hopper is also a term used for a buffer that holds data awaiting processing. Furthermore, in the context of transportation, a hopper can refer to a type of railway freight car used to transport loose bulk commodities.
Webster Dictionary
Hoppernoun
one who, or that which, hops
Hoppernoun
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; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car
Hoppernoun
see Grasshopper, 2
Hoppernoun
a game. See Hopscotch
Hoppernoun
see Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree
Hoppernoun
the larva of a cheese fly
Hoppernoun
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
Etymology: [See 1st Hop.]
Wikidata
Hopper
Hopper was a proposed European Space Agency orbital and reusable launch vehicle. The shuttle prototype spaceplane was one of several proposals for a European reusable launch vehicle planned to cheaply ferry satellites into orbit by 2015. The 'Phoenix' was a German-European project for a one-seventh scale model of the Hopper concept vehicle.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
HOPPER
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hopper is ranked #1281 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Hopper surname appeared 27,353 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 9 would have the surname Hopper.
87.2% or 23,874 total occurrences were White.
6.2% or 1,718 total occurrences were Black.
2.7% or 758 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.9% or 542 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.1% or 317 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.5% or 145 total occurrences were Asian.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Hopper in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Hopper in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of Hopper in a Sentence
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.
The whole thing is a big sham from top to bottom, this is just Vladimir Putin playing games with Trump and sort of playing games with the American public as well, then throwing my name into the hopper to make it even more interesting.
It has to do with Dennis Hopper; my dad was friendly with him and idolized him, what they told me is that I hopped in her stomach, I didn’t kick, so they went with that.
Will Harbour's very Russian in a way that Hopper's very American.
New Mexico's very difficult to change your vote once New Mexico's in the hopper, the deciding point is, has your first ballot been received and accounted for and if not, you may have a chance to go in and say :' I want to do it differently.'.
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