Hopper
noun
A container for a loose material that discharges the material through its bottom.
He tossed the grains into a hopper.
Often appears as...
- grain hopper
- top-loading hopper
noun
A person or thing that hops.
There was a little grasshopper, a prolific hopper, in the field.
Often appears as...
- grass hopper
- sand hopper
noun
A jumping insect, like the grasshopper or cricket.
We observed hoppers in the grass during our nature walk.
Often appears as...
- grass hopper
- tree hopper
noun
A type of railway car able to carry bulk goods and unload them from the bottom.
We watched the hopper cars unload coal at the terminal.
Often appears as...
- hopper car
- unload hopper
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A tool for painting or plastering, a container for holding paints or plasters.
I used a paint hopper and spray gun to paint the wall.
Often appears as...
- paint hopper
- plastering hopper
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A container for a loose material that discharges the material through its bottom.
He tossed the grains into a hopper.
Often appears as...
- grain hopper
- top-loading hopper
noun
A person or thing that hops.
There was a little grasshopper, a prolific hopper, in the field.
Often appears as...
- grass hopper
- sand hopper
noun
A jumping insect, like the grasshopper or cricket.
We observed hoppers in the grass during our nature walk.
Often appears as...
- grass hopper
- tree hopper
noun
A type of railway car able to carry bulk goods and unload them from the bottom.
We watched the hopper cars unload coal at the terminal.
Often appears as...
- hopper car
- unload hopper
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A tool for painting or plastering, a container for holding paints or plasters.
I used a paint hopper and spray gun to paint the wall.
Often appears as...
- paint hopper
- plastering hopper
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/3Industrial Use
This type of hopper is commonly related to industries like agriculture or construction.
The cement hopper at the construction site was filled to the top.
Pro Tip 2/3Bulk Material
Think of large quantities of raw materials when you hear this hopper term.
Farmers use a grain hopper to store and manage their harvest.
Pro Tip 3/3Bottom Discharge
The hopper releases material from a hatch or valve at the bottom.
The workers opened the hopper to pour out sand for the playground.
Pro Tip 1/3Industrial Use
This type of hopper is commonly related to industries like agriculture or construction.
The cement hopper at the construction site was filled to the top.
Pro Tip 2/3Bulk Material
Think of large quantities of raw materials when you hear this hopper term.
Farmers use a grain hopper to store and manage their harvest.
Pro Tip 3/3Bottom Discharge
The hopper releases material from a hatch or valve at the bottom.
The workers opened the hopper to pour out sand for the playground.
Pro Tip 1/3Industrial Use
This type of hopper is commonly related to industries like agriculture or construction.
The cement hopper at the construction site was filled to the top.
Pro Tip 2/3Bulk Material
Think of large quantities of raw materials when you hear this hopper term.
Farmers use a grain hopper to store and manage their harvest.
Pro Tip 3/3Bottom Discharge
The hopper releases material from a hatch or valve at the bottom.
The workers opened the hopper to pour out sand for the playground.
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The pattern behind...
and you give him a little reward in the hopper box there -- if you just randomly assign rewards such that there is no pattern, they will figure out any kind of pattern. And whatever they were doing just before they got the reward, they repeat that particular pattern. Sometimes it was even spinning around twice counterclockwise,
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The pattern behind...
give them a little reward in the hopper box there if you just randomly assign rewards such that there is no pattern they will figure out any kind of pattern and whatever they were doing just before they got the reward they repeat that particular pattern sometimes it was even spinning around twice counterclockwise
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Cory Combs: The future...
better compact motors or advanced power electronics that are key to unlocking higher efficiency in aircraft of all sizes. Electrification will permeate everything, from jumbo jets becoming more electric aircraft to repowering island hopper prop planes.
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Released into the Wild PIPE...
gonna walkie this place is a protected research area surrounded by pristine forest and with all the fruit trees the orangutangs need to survive and they'll soon be here swinging through the trees my carrot hopper
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The Case for Radically...
how we could make people not just stand at the outside and admire a structure, but how we could pull them into the inside where curiosity would then do the rest of the work. And you enter under the grain hoppers
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Just add water: The...
During the dry weather typical in these ecosystems, desert locusts live a solitary lifestyle. Adolescent hoppers will spend a few lonely weeks foraging for plants, before growing wings, reproducing, and dying.
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Farming on a Rooftop PIPE...
circle of life up on the farm we have well over a million pounds of soil in the roof this roof took several weeks of pumping up the soil with a blower truck essentially a hopper with a pressurized
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Swarm Of Locusts DEVOUR...
The young locusts are known as hoppers, for at this stage they're flightless. They find new feeding grounds by following the smell of sprouting grass.
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A Collection Of Summer...
normally it takes four weeks for hoppers to become adults but when the conditions are right as now their development switches to the fast track
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The Planet Earth...
the young locusts are known as hoppers for at this stage they're flightless
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The pattern behind...
and you give him a little reward in the hopper box there -- if you just randomly assign rewards such that there is no pattern, they will figure out any kind of pattern. And whatever they were doing just before they got the reward, they repeat that particular pattern. Sometimes it was even spinning around twice counterclockwise,
Video examples
The pattern behind...
give them a little reward in the hopper box there if you just randomly assign rewards such that there is no pattern they will figure out any kind of pattern and whatever they were doing just before they got the reward they repeat that particular pattern sometimes it was even spinning around twice counterclockwise
Video examples
Cory Combs: The future...
better compact motors or advanced power electronics that are key to unlocking higher efficiency in aircraft of all sizes. Electrification will permeate everything, from jumbo jets becoming more electric aircraft to repowering island hopper prop planes.
Video examples
Released into the Wild PIPE...
gonna walkie this place is a protected research area surrounded by pristine forest and with all the fruit trees the orangutangs need to survive and they'll soon be here swinging through the trees my carrot hopper
Video examples
The Case for Radically...
how we could make people not just stand at the outside and admire a structure, but how we could pull them into the inside where curiosity would then do the rest of the work. And you enter under the grain hoppers
Video examples
Just add water: The...
During the dry weather typical in these ecosystems, desert locusts live a solitary lifestyle. Adolescent hoppers will spend a few lonely weeks foraging for plants, before growing wings, reproducing, and dying.
Video examples
Farming on a Rooftop PIPE...
circle of life up on the farm we have well over a million pounds of soil in the roof this roof took several weeks of pumping up the soil with a blower truck essentially a hopper with a pressurized
Video examples
Swarm Of Locusts DEVOUR...
The young locusts are known as hoppers, for at this stage they're flightless. They find new feeding grounds by following the smell of sprouting grass.
Video examples
A Collection Of Summer...
normally it takes four weeks for hoppers to become adults but when the conditions are right as now their development switches to the fast track
Video examples
The Planet Earth...
the young locusts are known as hoppers for at this stage they're flightless
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Quote examples
Tom Hardy
English Actor
It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!
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Colson Whitehead
American Novelist
I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from this or that piece of art that has stayed with me. Toni Morrison, George Romero, Sonic Youth - they are all in there.
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Ann Rule
American Writer
I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come.
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Jim Crace
English Writer
I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.
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Tom Hardy
English Actor
It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!
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Colson Whitehead
American Novelist
I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from this or that piece of art that has stayed with me. Toni Morrison, George Romero, Sonic Youth - they are all in there.
Quote examples
Ann Rule
American Writer
I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come.
Quote examples
Jim Crace
English Writer
I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.
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