hopper
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈhɑːpər/
- Specialized
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- Instead of having a rectangular bottom with straight walls, hopper bottoms have sloping walls that converge in the middle.
- feed hopper
- fill the hopper
- a full hopper
I built this giant conical hopper out of clear plastic and welded steel.
- I built this giant conical hopper out of clear plastic and welded steel.
- You throw them into the hopper and often out pops a nice DSM diagnosis.
Examples
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A conveyor belt moves the materials to a hopper and inside the mixer.
Academic text (1998) -
Fish are transferred from the hopper by conveyor belts, draglines, or augers.
Academic text (1991) -
And what it does, the seed will come in down the hopper and down onto the table.
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We come up here... and we open up our flour hopper.
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Keeping the tub or feed hopper full at all times is a universal recommendation.
Academic text (2001) -
The soil was fed through the machine's hopper into a large hammermill with the capacity to process 300 tons/hour.
Academic text (1999) -
The conveyor belt feeds the ingredients into the hopper before mixing.
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Farmers use a hopper to streamline the process of dispensing seeds into the soil.
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After filling the hopper with gravel, the truck was ready to dump its load.
Synonyms
14
2.7
A tube with a wide top and narrow bottom for pouring liquids into small openings
10
5.3
A container for holding things like bottles or paper
A container like a bowl or box used to hold things
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Etymology
The word hopper comes from hop 'to jump' and the ending -er 'one that'. A helpful way to remember the container called a hopper is to imagine things 'jumping' or falling through its funnel into the machine below, so the name links to the way it drops material down.