D HOPPER
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hopper (ˈhɒpə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person or thing that hops |
| 2. | a funnel-shaped chamber or reservoir from which solid materials can be discharged under gravity into a receptacle below, esp for feeding fuel to a furnace, loading a railway truck with grain, etc |
| 3. | a machine used for picking hops |
| 4. | any of various long-legged hopping insects, esp the grasshopper, leaf hopper, and immature locust |
| 5. | Also called: hoppercar an open-topped railway truck for bulk transport of loose minerals, etc, unloaded through doors on the underside |
| 6. | (South African) another name for cocopan |
| 7. | computing a device formerly used for holding punched cards and feeding them to a card punch or card reader |
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D hopper
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| Hopper (ˈhɒpə) | |
| —n | |
| Edward. 1882--1967, US painter, noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes | |
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Word Origin & History
hopper
"container with narrow opening at bottom," 1277, perhaps from hop (v.) via notion of grain juggling in a mill hopper.
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Science Dictionary
Hopper  (hŏp'ər) Pronunciation Key
American mathematician and computer programmer who in 1951 conceived the idea for an internal computer program, called a compiler, that scanned a set of alphanumeric instructions (such as words and symbols) and compiled a set of binary instructions executed by the machine. Her ideas were widely influential in the development of programming languages, in particular COBOL. |
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