What is "hopper"

Grasshopper \Grass"hop`per\, n.

1. (Zo["o]l.) Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acridid[ae] and Locustid[ae], having large hind legs adapted for leaping, and chewing mouth parts. The species and genera are very numerous and some are very destructive to crops. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust ( Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged ( Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related species, but their ravages are less important. They are closely related to the migratory locusts of the Old World. See Locust.

   Note: The meadow or green grasshoppers belong to the Locustid[ae]. They have long antenn[ae], large ovipositors, and stridulating organs at the base of the wings in the male. The European great green grasshopper ( Locusta viridissima) belongs to this family. The common American green species mostly belong to Xiphidium, Orchelimum, and Conocephalus.

2. In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper.
   --Grove.

3. (Mil.) An antipersonnel mine that jumps from the ground to body height when activated, and explodes, hurling metal fragments over a wide area.

4. A mixed alcoholic beverage containing cr[`e]me de menthe, light cream, and sometimes cr[`e]me de cacao. The name comes from its light green color.

   Grasshopper engine, a steam engine having a working beam with its fulcrum at one end, the steam cylinder at the other end, and the connecting rod at an intermediate point.

   Grasshopper lobster (Zo["o]l.) a young lobster. [Local, U. S.]

   Grasshopper warbler (Zo["o]l.), cricket bird.

Jack \Jack\ (j[a^]k), n. [F. Jacques James, L. Jacobus, Gr. ?, Heb. Ya 'aq[=o]b Jacob; prop., seizing by the heel; hence, a supplanter. Cf. Jacobite, Jockey.]

1. A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.

   You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby.
   --Shak.

2. An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic. ``Jack fool.''
   --Chaucer.

   Since every Jack became a gentleman, There 's many a gentle person made a Jack.
   --Shak.

3. A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat.

4. A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack; as:

   1. A device to pull off boots.

   2. A sawhorse or sawbuck.

   3. A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack. (b) (Mining) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting. (e) (Knitting Machine) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles. (f) (Warping Machine) A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box. (g) (Spinning) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine. (h) A compact, portable machine for planing metal. (i) A machine for slicking or pebbling leather. (k) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed. (l) A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught. (m) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper. (n) In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself.
      --C. Hallock.

5. A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body such as an automobile through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack.

6. The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.
   --Shak.

   Like an uninstructed bowler who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it.
   --Sir W. Scott.

7. The male of certain animals, as of the ass.

8. (Zo["o]l.)

   1. A young pike; a pickerel.

   2. The jurel.

   3. A large, California rock fish ( Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and m['e]rou.

   4. The wall-eyed pike.

9. A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint. [Prov. Eng.]
   --Halliwell.

10. (Naut.)

    1. A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State.

    2. A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree.
       --R. H. Dana, Jr.

11. The knave of a suit of playing cards.

12. (pl.) A game played with small (metallic, with tetrahedrally oriented spikes) objects (the jacks(1950+), formerly jackstones) that are tossed, caught, picked up, and arranged on a horizontal surface in various patterns; in the modern American game, the movements are accompanied by tossing or bouncing a rubber ball on the horizontal surface supporting the jacks. same as jackstones.

13. Money. [slang]

14. Apple jack.

15. Brandy. Note: Jack is used adjectively in various senses. It sometimes designates something cut short or diminished in size; as, a jack timber; a jack rafter; a jack arch, etc. Jack arch, an arch of the thickness of one brick. Jack back (Brewing & Malt Vinegar Manuf.), a cistern which receives the wort. See under 1st Back. Jack block (Naut.), a block fixed in the topgallant or royal rigging, used for raising and lowering light masts and spars. Jack boots, boots reaching above the knee; -- worn in the 17 century by soldiers; afterwards by fishermen, etc. Jack crosstree. (Naut.) See 10, b, above. Jack curlew (Zo["o]l.), the whimbrel. Jack frame. (Cotton Spinning) See 4 (g), above. Jack Frost, frost or cold weather personified as a mischievous person. Jack hare, a male hare. --Cowper. Jack lamp, a lamp for still hunting and camp use. See def. 4 (n.), above. Jack plane, a joiner's plane used for coarse work. Jack post, one of the posts which support the crank shaft of a deep-well-boring apparatus. Jack pot (Poker Playing), the name given to the stakes, contributions to which are made by each player successively, till such a hand is turned as shall take the ``pot,'' which is the sum total of all the bets. See also jackpot. Jack rabbit (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of large American hares, having very large ears and long legs. The California species ( Lepus Californicus), and that of Texas and New Mexico ( Lepus callotis), have the tail black above, and the ears black at the tip. They do not become white in winter. The more northern prairie hare ( Lepus campestris) has the upper side of the tail white, and in winter its fur becomes nearly white. Jack rafter (Arch.), in England, one of the shorter rafters used in constructing a hip or valley roof; in the United States, any secondary roof timber, as the common rafters resting on purlins in a trussed roof; also, one of the pieces simulating extended rafters, used under the eaves in some styles of building. Jack salmon (Zo["o]l.), the wall-eyed pike, or glasseye. Jack sauce, an impudent fellow. [Colloq. & Obs.] Jack shaft (Mach.), the first intermediate shaft, in a factory or mill, which receives power, through belts or gearing, from a prime mover, and transmits it, by the same means, to other intermediate shafts or to a line shaft. Jack sinker (Knitting Mach.), a thin iron plate operated by the jack to depress the loop of thread between two needles. Jack snipe. (Zo["o]l.) See in the Vocabulary. Jack staff (Naut.), a staff fixed on the bowsprit cap, upon which the jack is hoisted. Jack timber (Arch.), any timber, as a rafter, rib, or studding, which, being intercepted, is shorter than the others. Jack towel, a towel hung on a roller for common use. Jack truss (Arch.), in a hip roof, a minor truss used where the roof has not its full section. Jack tree. (Bot.) See 1st Jack, n. Jack yard (Naut.), a short spar to extend a topsail beyond the gaff. Blue jack, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper. Hydraulic jack, a jack used for lifting, pulling, or forcing, consisting of a compact portable hydrostatic press, with its pump and a reservoir containing a supply of liquid, as oil. Jack-at-a-pinch.

    1. One called upon to take the place of another in an emergency.

    2. An itinerant parson who conducts an occasional service for a fee.

       Jack-at-all-trades, one who can turn his hand to any kind of work.

       Jack-by-the-hedge (Bot.), a plant of the genus Erysimum ( Erysimum alliaria, or Alliaria officinalis), which grows under hedges. It bears a white flower and has a taste not unlike garlic. Called also, in England, sauce-alone.
       --Eng. Cyc.

       Jack-in-office, an insolent fellow in authority.
       --Wolcott.

       Jack-in-the-bush (Bot.), a tropical shrub with red fruit ( Cordia Cylindrostachya).

       Jack-in-the-green, a chimney sweep inclosed in a framework of boughs, carried in Mayday processions.

       Jack-of-the-buttery (Bot.), the stonecrop ( Sedum acre).

       Jack-of-the-clock, a figure, usually of a man, on old clocks, which struck the time on the bell.

       Jack-on-both-sides, one who is or tries to be neutral.

       Jack-out-of-office, one who has been in office and is turned out.
       --Shak.

       Jack the Giant Killer, the hero of a well-known nursery story.

       Yellow Jack (Naut.), the yellow fever; also, the quarantine flag. See Yellow flag, under Flag.

"person or animal that hops," mid-13c., agent noun from hop (v.). From c.1200 as a surname, and perhaps existing in Old English (which had hoppestre "female dancer").

"container with narrow opening at bottom," late 13c., perhaps an agent noun from hop (v.) via notion of grain juggling in a mill hopper.

n. 1 A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped. 2 A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes. 3 One who hops. 4 A grasshopper or locust, especially: 5 # The immature form of a locust. 6 The larva of a cheese fly. 7 An artificial fishing lure. 8 (cx slang English) A toilet. 9 An escapement lever in a piano 10 A Sri Lankan food made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast. 11 (context obsolete English) The game of hopscotch.

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

2. someone who hops; "at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children"

3. a machine used for picking hops [syn: hop-picker]

4. terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping [syn: grasshopper]

5. (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground [syn: grounder, ground ball, groundball]

Hopper or hoppers may refer to:

Hopper was a proposed European Space Agency orbital and reusable launch vehicle. The shuttle prototype spaceplane was one of several proposals for a European reusable launch vehicle (RLV) planned to cheaply ferry satellites into orbit by 2015. The 'Phoenix' was a German-European project for a one-seventh scale model of the Hopper concept vehicle.

A hopper is a large, pyramidal shaped container used in industrial processes to hold particulate matter that has been collected from expelled air. Hoppers are usually installed in groups to allow for a greater collection quantity. They are employed in industrial processes that use air pollution control devices such as dust collectors, electrostatic precipitators, and baghouses/fabric filters. Most hoppers are made of steel.

Hopper provides insightful, data-driven research to help travelers make better decisions about where to go, and when to fly and buy.

Hopper is a line of digital video recording (DVR) set-top boxes offered by the U.S. direct-broadcast satellite television provider Dish Network. First introduced at Consumer Electronics Show in January 2012, the Hopper was released in March 2012 as a component of the provider's whole-home DVR system.

The Hopper is primarily distinguished by its "Primetime Anytime" functionality, which automatically records primetime programming off the four major U.S. television networks, while a later software update added "AutoHop", which allows commercials to automatically be removed from these recordings. The following year at the Consumer Electronics Show, Dish Network introduced an updated version known as Hopper with Sling, which integrates Slingbox place-shifting technology directly into the box.

Both versions of the Hopper were met with universal praise by technology publications, particularly surrounding its "PrimeTime Anytime" functionality, the AutoHop feature, integration with smartphones and tablets, and the addition of built-in place-shifting to its second iteration. However, despite the positive reception, the Hopper became the subject of a copyright lawsuit filed by major U.S. broadcasters shortly after its release, who questioned the legality of the AutoHop feature by considering it to be an attack on their business model. Although unsuccessful in its lawsuits against Dish Network, ABC ( Disney), CBS and Fox Broadcasting Company have since used carriage agreements and other settlements to impose requirements for AutoHop to be disabled on their respective primetime programs for a period after their original air date.

The Hopper with Sling model was the subject of a related controversy when its "Best in Show" award at CES was vetoed by CBS—whose website CNET issued the award on behalf of CES organizers, because it was a party of active litigation with Dish Network. Due to the conflict of interest and its opinion of the device as being "pro-innovation and pro-consumer", CES organizers removed CNET from the "Best in Show" program, and reinstated the award. After a lawsuit which shut down Aereo (a service that allowed users to rent an antenna from a centralized location to watch over-the-air television online) as an unauthorized "public performance" of copyrighted television content, Fox argued in court that the place-shifting functionality of Hopper with Sling was "virtually identical" and thus also a violation. However, its claim was rejected by the court.

Hopper is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Andy Hopper (born 1953), British computer scientist
• Dennis Hopper (1936–2010), American actor
• DeWolf Hopper (1858–1935), American actor, singer, comedian and producer
• Edward Hopper (1882–1967), American painter and printmaker
• Grace Hopper (1906–1992), American computer scientist and naval officer
• Hedda Hopper (1885–1966), American actress and gossip columnist
• Hugh Hopper (1945–2009), English guitarist and composer
• Isaac Hopper (1771–1852), American abolitionist and underground railroad pioneer
• Josephine Hopper (1883–1968), American artist and wife of Edward Hopper
• Kev Hopper (born 1961), musician
• Max Hopper (1934–2010), American IT manager
• Paul Hopper, American linguist of British birth
• Paul A. Hopper, Australian bioentrepreneur
• Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell (1886–1985), American artist best known for Hawaiian themes
• Stephen Hopper (born 1951), Australian botanist denoted by the author abbreviation "Hopper" when citing a botanical name
• Thomas Hopper (architect) (1776–1856), English architect
• Tom Hopper (born 1985), English actor
• Wilbert Hopper (1933–2006), Canadian business executive
• William Hopper (1915–1970), American actor

Fictional characters:

• Franz Hopper, character in Code Lyoko

Hopper were an English indie rock band formed in 1992.

They first signed to Damaged Goods (the label that released the Manic Street Preachers' first official single). Their debut single was "Hunter" released on 31 January 1994. Their second, "Baby Oil Applicator" created more of a buzz and Steve Lamacq made it his single of the week on Radio 1.

They signed to Factory Too, the new label of Tony Wilson, after the demise of Factory Records. They recorded their debut album English and French (originally entitled Cause I Rock), produced by Bernard Butler after he left Suede. The record was engineered by Nigel Godrich after working on Radiohead's The Bends. The album was released during the peak of Britpop, which caused inevitable comparisons to other English female-fronted bands of the time such as Sleeper, who were frequently slated by music papers such as NME and Melody Maker.

Singles released off the album included "Bad Kid" and "Wasted," which were melodic pop punk anthems; they did well on the UK indie charts, but did not enjoy the mainstream success of other guitar bands of the time. Other singles were "Ridiculous Day" and "Oh my Heartless," which were acoustic-driven and mellower. This was more typical of the album as a whole, though the songs would tend to build towards the end.

Rachel Morris was frequently commended for her unconventional singing style. She would often emphasise different parts of lines when they are repeated in the songs.

After touring and promoting the album and its singles for eighteen months, the band split in 1998. Rachel Ratajski (Morris) is still involved in music, working on a solo project under the name Rachel Kyriaki.