name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
hopper
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rhymes with -ɒpə(ɹ)
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɒp.ə(ɹ)/
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Australian: /ˈhɔp.ə/
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General-American: /ˈhɑ.pɚ/
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CMU ARPABET: HH AA1 P ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
An unincorporated community in Stronghurst Township, Henderson County, Illinois, United States.
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name
Meaning 3
An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States.
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noun
Meaning 4
One who or that which hops.
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noun
Meaning 5
A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
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Synonyms: feedbin
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noun
Meaning 6
A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
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noun
Meaning 7
A bin or device that feeds material into a machine.
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Synonyms: feeder, feedbin
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noun
Meaning 8
Any of various insects known for hopping, especially a grasshopper or locust, the immature form of a locust, or the larva of various flies and beetles.
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noun
Meaning 9
An artificial fishing lure.
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Examples
- To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface.
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noun
Meaning 10
A toilet.
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Usage: slang
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noun
Meaning 11
An escapement lever in a piano.
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Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Meaning 12
The game of hopscotch.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 13
A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.
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noun
Meaning 14
A hopper car.
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noun
Meaning 15
A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.
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Topics: board-games, chess, games
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noun
Meaning 16
A person or machine that picks hops.
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noun
Meaning 17
A Sri Lankan pancake made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.
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noun
Meaning 18
(baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
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Synonyms: grounder, ground ball, groundball
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Broader terms: hit, hitting, striking
Narrower terms: chop, chopper, roller
noun
Meaning 19
terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
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Synonyms: grasshopper
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Broader terms: orthopterous insect, orthopteron, orthopteran
Narrower terms: short-horned grasshopper, acridid, long-horned grasshopper, tettigoniid
noun
Meaning 20
funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
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Broader terms: receptacle
noun
Meaning 21
a machine used for picking hops
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Synonyms: hop-picker
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Broader terms: machine
noun
Meaning 22
someone who hops
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children
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Broader terms: jumper
History
Etymology
* As an English and Scottish surname, from the verb hop; identical to hopper. * As a German surname, from hoppen (“to stumble, limp”), related to above. * As a Dutch surname, from hop (“Humulus lupulus”).
From Middle English hoppere, alteration of *hoppe (found in grashoppe (“grasshopper”)), from Old English *hoppa (“one who hops, hopper”), equivalent to hop + -er. Cognate with Dutch hopper (“hopper”), Swedish hoppare (“hopper, jumper”), Icelandic hoppari (“hopper”).
From Sinhalese ආප්ප (āppa), from Tamil ஆப்பம் (āppam). Doublet of appam.
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: pomppija — that which hops or makes hop
- Finnish: hypittäjä — that which hops or makes hop
- Finnish: hyppyyttäjä — that which hops or makes hop
- Catalan: tremuja — a temporary storage bin
- Finnish: suppilo — a temporary storage bin
- Finnish: siilo — a temporary storage bin
- Galician: moega — a temporary storage bin
- German: Trichter — a temporary storage bin
- Irish: crannóg — a temporary storage bin
- Norwegian Bokmål: matningsinnsats — a temporary storage bin
- Spanish: tolva — a temporary storage bin
- Finnish: suppilo — machine that feeds down
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