grounder, ground ball, groundball, hopper
(noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
grasshopper, hopper
(noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
hopper
(noun) funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
hopper, hop-picker
(noun) a machine used for picking hops
hopper
(noun) someone who hops; “at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hopper (plural hoppers)
One who or that which hops.
A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
A device that feeds material into a machine.
Various insects
A grasshopper or locust, especially
The immature form of a locust.
The larva of a cheese fly.
A leafhopper.
Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
An artificial fishing lure.
(slang) A toilet.
(music) An escapement lever in a piano.
(obsolete) The game of hopscotch.
A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.
A hopper car.
(chess) A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.
A person or machine that picks hops.
hopper (plural hoppers)
A Sri Lankan food made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.
Hopper
A surname.
Source: Wiktionary
Hop"per, n. Etym: [See 1st Hop.]
1. One who, or that which, hops.
2. 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.
3. (Mus.)
Definition: See Grasshopper, 2.
4. pl.
Definition: A game. See Hopscotch. Johnson.
5. (Zoöl.) (a) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree. (b) The larva of a cheese fly.
6. (Naut.)
Definition: 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. Bell and hopper (Metal.), the apparatus at the top of a blast furnace, through which the charge is introduced, while the gases are retained.
– Hopper boy, a rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the floor, through which it falls.
– Hopper closet, a water-closet, without a movable pan, in which the receptacle is a funnel standing on a draintrap.
– Hopper cock, a faucet or valve for flushing the hopper of a water-closet.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
