Used in a Sentence

hopper

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hopper.

Editorial note

Like Hopper paintings[1][2], it captures a daily life where lonely people are just part of a landscape, nothing more.

Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

One who or that which hops.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hopper gathered in one view.

noun

One who or that which hops.

noun

A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.

noun

Various insects

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hopper.

noun

One who or that which hops.

noun

A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.

noun

Various insects

noun

A grasshopper or locust, especially:

Example sentences

1

Like Hopper paintings[1][2], it captures a daily life where lonely people are just part of a landscape, nothing more.

2

If it is less for too many jobs, then they assume that you are a job hopper.

3

Some poor schmuck has to pour pennies in the top hopper, and gets nothing for his pains.

4

It feels like if Edward Hopper was Japanese and born today this is what he'd do.

5

Another plant had someone crushed under a forklift just before Christmas when it tipped over when they were emptying a glass hopper.

6

Occasionally a celebrity attribution is correct, but the odds are surprisingly low, and if there's no textual evidence, forget it—it's a hopper.

7

I might have to erect a shrine for the spirit of Grace Hopper after all.

8

You can have several employers and not be a job hopper.

9

For example an unmanned, refrigerated, follow-me cart with a soft hopper could be a multiplier on picking productivity without all the hassles of actual mobile manipulation and perception.

10

Especially considering if you leave and don't like it you may have to stay in a role you don't like for a couple years to avoid looking like a job hopper.

11

I'm an admitted phone-hopper, and while my preferred platform is Windows Phone, I've had to give that up for Android so I don't have to carry two devices.

12

Or to quote Beyer's Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age: >Common sense would dictate that the most experienced programmers should have been assigned to these difficult tasks, but, as Hopper glibly explained, young people did not know that they were supposed to fail.

Quote examples

1

Hopper on my laptop login screen, to serve as a reminder: "The problem with privacy on the Internet is that people believe it exists."

2

Some examples: the ADA initiative does an 'Ally Skills Workshop' and the Grace Hopper Conference had a "Male Ally Panel".

3

Are 16 bit-style animated loops like the "Dennis Hopper in a motorcycle jacket" for millenials?

4

Hopper, "Compiling Routines," Computers and Automation, Edmund C.

Proper noun examples

1

However it would have been nice to see at least Grace Hopper's compiler papers mentioned e,g: G.

2

Nick Hopper, whose CS research team were intensely focused on ways to deanonymize TOR traffic using an impressive variety of techniques.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hopper in a sentence?

Like Hopper paintings[1][2], it captures a daily life where lonely people are just part of a landscape, nothing more.

What does hopper mean?

One who or that which hops.

What part of speech is hopper?

hopper is commonly used as noun.