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 hopper ['hɒpә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 跳跃的东西, 单足跳者, 跳虫

[化] 漏斗; 贮斗; 料斗; 集尘箱; 集尘斗




    hopper
    [ noun ]
    1. funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below

    2. <noun.artifact>
    3. someone who hops

    4. <noun.person>
      at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children
    5. a machine used for picking hops

    6. <noun.artifact>
    7. terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping

    8. <noun.animal>
    9. (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground

    10. <noun.act>


    Hopper \Hop"per\, n. [See 1st {Hop}.]
    1. One who, or that which, hops.

    2. A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an
    opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any
    material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its
    trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining
    or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a
    furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.

    3. (Mus.) See {Grasshopper}, 2.

    4. pl. A game. See {Hopscotch}. --Johnson.

    5. (Zo["o]l.)
    (a) See {Grasshopper}, and {Frog hopper}, {Grape hopper},
    {Leaf hopper}, {Tree hopper}, under {Frog}, {Grape},
    {Leaf}, and {Tree}.
    (b) The larva of a cheese fly.

    6. (Naut.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to
    sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a
    mechanical contrivance; -- called also {dumping scow}.

    {Bell and hopper} (Metal.), the apparatus at the top of a
    blast furnace, through which the charge is introduced,
    while the gases are retained.

    {Hopper boy}, a rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread
    meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the
    floor, through which it falls.

    {Hopper closet}, a water-closet, without a movable pan, in
    which the receptacle is a funnel standing on a draintrap.


    {Hopper cock}, a faucet or valve for flushing the hopper of a
    water-closet.

    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}.
    [1913 Webster +PJC]

    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.
    [PJC]

    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.
    [PJC]

    {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:
    (a) A device to pull off boots.
    (b) A sawhorse or sawbuck.
    (c) 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.)
    (a) A young pike; a pickerel.
    (b) The jurel.
    (c) A large, California rock fish ({Sebastodes
    paucispinus}); -- called also {boccaccio}, and
    {m['e]rou}.
    (d) 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.)
    (a) 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.
    (b) 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}.
    [PJC]

    13. Money. [slang]
    [PJC]

    14. Apple jack.
    [PJC]

    15. Brandy.
    [PJC]

    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}.
    (a) One called upon to take the place of another in an
    emergency.
    (b) 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}.

    1. Sand breaking loose from the sides of a hopper buried and killed a maintenance worker Saturday, authorities said.
    2. In the meantime, a national Corporate Criminal Liability Act, by Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, is due back in the congressional hopper. We trust the Members will exempt themselves from coverage.
    3. But with the presidential campaign influencing much of what happens in Washington these days, and with the hopper stuffed with legislation Congress wants to pass before leaving town next month, a catchall spending bill may well be the result.
    4. Also landing in the hopper was a bill to provide more than $1.7 billion to carry out programs contained in last fall's omnibus narcotics law.
    5. The covered hopper car carried a placard stating it contained a flammable material, Federal Railroad Administration spokesman Bill Loftus said last week.
    6. Three factors powered the bill from the hopper to the president's desk in less than a month.
    7. Although reasons are not clear why the hopper car situation has improved the last 10 days, Fitzpatrick noted that export demand has slackened somewhat and delivery dates have eased.
    8. Two switching engines were pulling nine cars on the freight train when the third car, a covered grain hopper, apparently derailed and struck a pillar that supported the 74-year-old viaduct, said John Bromley, a Union Pacific spokesman.
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