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A hopper is a large container shaped like a funnel: wide at the top so you can pour a lot in, narrow at the bottom so grain, coal, ice, or little plastic pieces can fall through a hole in a steady stream. Farms, factories, and trains use them.
A hopper is a large container shaped like a funnelA hopper是形狀像漏斗的大容器：wide at the top so you can pour a lot in上面寬，方便你把大量的東西倒進去；narrow at the bottom so grain, coal, ice, or little plastic pieces can fall through a hole in a steady stream下面窄，讓穀物、煤、冰或小塑膠粒可以持續穩定地從一個洞漏出來。Farms, factories, and trains use them農場、工廠和火車都會用到它們。
A hopper wagon on a railway is a truck built this way, so the load can drop out through doors underneath.
A hopper wagon on a railway is a truck built this way鐵路上的A hopper wagon就是照這種方式打造的貨車，so the load can drop out through doors underneath讓貨物可以從底部的門掉出來。
The same spelling, built the same way, can also mean a person or a creature that hops — a is the famous one. In some kitchens, especially Sri Lankan ones, a hopper is a thin bowl-shaped ; that food name came by a different road, from Tamil and Sinhalese, so it only looks like the funnel word.
The same spelling, built the same way同樣的拼法，用同樣的構詞方式，can also mean a person or a creature that hops也可以指會hop（跳）的人或生物——a grasshopper is the famous one最有名的就是grasshopper（蚱蜢）。In some kitchens, especially Sri Lankan ones在某些廚房裡，尤其是斯里蘭卡的廚房，a hopper is a thin bowl-shaped pancakehopper是一種薄薄的碗狀煎餅；that food name came by a different road, from Tamil and Sinhalese這個食物的名字是從另一條路來的，源自坦米爾語和僧伽羅語，so it only looks like the funnel word只是碰巧跟漏斗那個字長得一樣。
In ordinary English, the big funnel is the meaning you will meet first.
In ordinary English在一般英文裡，the big funnel is the meaning you will meet first大漏斗的意思是你最先會遇到的。
組成hop (to jump) + -er (someone or something that does that). From Middle English hoppere, an old form of hoppe that also lives inside grasshopper: one who hops. The funnel sense grew from that picture of things dropping through.
同家族的字
- hopthe verb meaning to jump; hopper is hop + -er
- grasshopperthe insect name kept the same hoppe / hopper piece
原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Hoppername
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A surname.
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An unincorporated community in Stronghurst Township, Henderson County, Illinois, United States.
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An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States.
hoppernoun詞源 1/ˈhɒp.ə(ɹ)/
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One who or that which hops.
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A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
- ...forming the bottom of the hopper, in combination with the recriprocating longitudinal movement of the same, for the purpose of regulating the feed from the hopper, substantially as herein set forth.
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A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
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A bin or device that feeds material into a machine.
- Having thus fully described my improved winnowing machine, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is in the forming of a series of shoulders one above another on the inclined board, forming the bottom of the hopper,...
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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.
- “And the next year the hoppers came. The sky was so dark with them we had to light the lamps at midday.”
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An artificial fishing lure.
- To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface.
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slangA toilet.
- 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 […]
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entertainmentlifestylemusicAn escapement lever in a piano.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
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obsoleteThe game of hopscotch.
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A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.
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A hopper car.
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board-gameschessgamesA 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.
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A person or machine that picks hops.
hoppernoun詞源 2/ˈhɒp.ə(ɹ)/
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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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。