HOPPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hopper mean? 

• HOPPER (noun)
  The noun HOPPER has 5 senses:

1. funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below

2. someone who hops

3. a machine used for picking hops

4. terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping

5. (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground

  Familiarity information: HOPPER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOPPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hopper" is a kind of...):

receptacle (a container that is used to put or keep things in)

Derivation:

hop (jump lightly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who hops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children

Hypernyms ("hopper" is a kind of...):

jumper (an athlete who competes at jumping)

Derivation:

hop (jump lightly)

hop (move quickly from one place to another)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A machine used for picking hops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hop-picker; hopper

Hypernyms ("hopper" is a kind of...):

machine (any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

grasshopper; hopper

Hypernyms ("hopper" is a kind of...):

orthopteran; orthopteron; orthopterous insect (any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hopper"):

acridid; short-horned grasshopper (grasshopper with short antennae)

long-horned grasshopper; tettigoniid (grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male)

Sense 5

Meaning:

(baseball) a hit that travels along the ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ground ball; groundball; grounder; hopper

Hypernyms ("hopper" is a kind of...):

hit; hitting; striking (the act of contacting one thing with another)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hopper"):

chop; chopper (a grounder that bounces high in the air)

roller (a grounder that rolls along the infield)

Derivation:

hop (jump lightly)

 Context examples 

In October, the Mothership Hayabusa 2 will drop a lander known as MASCOT followed by another ‘hopper’ rover, Minerva-II2, in 2019.

(First Ever Video of Asteroid Sent Back to Earth by Japanese Rovers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)