Hopper
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The word hopper has these meanings:
- A wide bin-like entry to feed large bulks of solid matter into a machine. It is open above, and tapers, being thinner at the bottom where it feeds into the mechanism.
- A hopper is simply a magazine for the paintball marker for housing paint balls.
- In agriculture, a hopper on a combine is a tank or bin where the harvested grain is temporarily stored until it is unloaded to a truck or grain cart.
- In aviation, a hopper is a one person, basket-less ultralight hot air balloon.
- In biology, the immature form or nymph of a locust. Large groups of these nymphs are called hopper bands.
- In chess, a hopper is a piece which moves by jumping over another piece.
- In football, a supporter of the Grasshopper-Club Zurich.
- In politics, in the United States House of Representatives, the hopper is the box which sits on the House Clerk's desk, into which a bill or resolution is dropped for introduction.
- In Ship, a hopper is a ship or vessel to carry the dumping materials (like rock, sand, soil or rubbish) to fill up the sea, river or lake for lands by reclamation methods.
- In Sri Lankan cuisine a hopper is a food, used most frequently for breakfast.
- In transportatin, a type of goods railway wagon for carrying bulk solids. See hopper car for open-topped cars or covered hopper for cars with a roof.
- Hopper, a spacecraft.
- Andy Hopper (1953—), British computer scientist
- Dennis Hopper (1936—), American actor
- DeWolf Hopper (1858–1935), American actor, singer, and comedian
- Edward Hopper (1882–1967), American artist
- Grace Hopper (1906–1992), American naval officer and computer pioneer
- Hedda Hopper (1885–1966), American actress and gossip columnist
- Isaac Hopper (1771–1852), American abolitionist, underground railroad pioneer
- Josephine Hopper (1883–1968), American artist and wife of Edward Hopper
- Nicholas J. Hopper (contemporary), American assistant professor
- Thomas Hopper (1776–1856), English architect
- William Hopper (1915–1970), American actor
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