hopper

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈhɒp.ə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈhɔp.ə/|/ˈhɑ.pɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who or that which hops.
  2. A Sri Lankan pancake made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.
    — Hoppers come in different varieties and can be sweet or savoury, while an egg hopper has an egg in the middle added during cooking.
  3. A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
  4. A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
  5. A bin or device that feeds material into a machine.
  6. Any of various insects known for hopping, especially a grasshopper or locust, the immature form of a locust, or the larva of various flies and beetles.
    — I went over and found the mealies and ground covered with large hoppers, about two weeks old.
  7. An artificial fishing lure.
    — To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface.
  8. A toilet. slang
    — The fresh-water container for the house was above the ceiling directly over the toilet. One day, I was comfortably seated on the hopper minding my own business, when a large portion of the ceiling came crashing down […]
  9. An escapement lever in a piano.
  10. The game of hopscotch. obsolete
  11. A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.
  12. A hopper car.
  13. A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.
    — The Leo, Pao (or Cannon, a piece from Chinese chess) and Vao (Z.Mach FCR 1940) are hybrid hoppers that move like a queen, rook or bishop and capture along these lines like a lion.
  14. A person or machine that picks hops.

词形变化

hoppers plural hoppers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
ash-hopper barhopper bed-hopper bellhopper bell hopper bunny hopper clodhopper club-hopper Etho hopper clock fence hopper flaghopper freighthopper freight hopper froghopper froth-hopper grasshopper groundhopper hedgehopper hip-hopper hopper boy hopper car hopper crystal hopper wagon in the hopper job-hopper landhopper leaf-hopper leaf hopper mudhopper planthopper puddle hopper rockhopper sandhopper space hopper summit-hopper swan hopper table-hopper train hopper trainhopper treehopper

词源

词源 1
From Middle English hoppere, alteration of *hoppe (found in grashoppe (“grasshopper”)), from Old English *hoppa (“one who hops, hopper”), equivalent to hop + -er. Cognate with Dutch hopper (“hopper”), Swedish hoppare (“hopper, jumper”), Icelandic hoppari (“hopper”).
词源 2
From Sinhalese ආප්ප (āppa), from Tamil ஆப்பம் (āppam). Doublet of appam.
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