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Encyclopedia > Hopper
Look up hopper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

The word hopper has these meanings: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that French Wiktionary be merged into this article or section. ...

  • A wide bin-like entry to feed large bulks of solid matter into a machine. It is open above, and tapers, being thinner at the bottom where it feeds into the mechanism, e.g. [1].
  • A hopper magazine for the paintball marker for housing paint balls.
  • In agriculture, a hopper on a combine is a tank or bin where the harvested grain is temporarily stored until it is unloaded to a truck or grain cart.
  • In aviation, a hopper is a one person, basket-less ultralight hot air balloon.
  • In biology, the immature form or nymph of a locust, but sometimes also referring to leafhoppers and treehoppers. Large groups of these nymphs are called hopper bands.
  • In chess, a hopper is a piece which moves by jumping over another piece.
  • In football, a supporter of the Grasshopper-Club Zürich.
  • In politics, in the United States House of Representatives, the hopper is the box which sits on the House Clerk's desk, into which a bill or resolution is dropped for introduction.
  • In Ship, a hopper is a ship or vessel to carry the dumping materials (like rock, sand, soil or rubbish) to fill up the sea, river or lake for lands by reclamation methods.
  • In Sri Lankan cuisine a hopper is a food, used most frequently for breakfast.
  • In transportation, a type of goods railway wagon for carrying bulk solids. See hopper car for open-topped cars or covered hopper for cars with a roof.
  • Hopper, a spacecraft.
  • Hopper, a part of power plants.
  • Hopper, the band.

People named Hopper: A tournament player shooting from behind an inflatable bunker. ... A postage stamp of a combine honors Russian agriculture. ... A hopper balloon (or simply hopper) is a small, one-person hot air balloon. ... Hot air balloon in flight Hot air balloons are the oldest successful human flight technology, dating back to the Montgolfier brothers invention in Annonay, France in 1783. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Praying mantis nymphs, approximately 4mm long, clustered on a leaf In biology, a nymph is the immature form of some insect species, which undergoes incomplete metamorphosis (Hemimetabolism) before reaching its adult stage; unlike a larva, a nymphs overall form already resembles that of an adult. ... Desert locust Nymph of Locust Schistocera americana with distinct wing-rudiments Desert Locust Schistocerca gregaria Locust from the 1915 Locust Plague For other uses, see Locust (disambiguation). ... genera: many hundreds including: Graminella Graphocephala Homalodisca Idiocerus Leafhopper is a common name applied to any species from the family Cicadellidae. ... Buffalo Treehopper, introduced to Germany, Darmstadt, 25. ... A fairy chess piece or unorthodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess, but used in certain chess variants and some chess problems. ... Grasshopper-Club Zürich commonly referred to as simply GCZ, GC, or Grasshopper is an eclectic multisports club based in Zurich, Switzerland, best known for its football team. ... Seal of the House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress, the other being the Senate. ... Look up bill in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Italian Full rigged ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large watercraft capable of deep water navigation. ... Hopper Barge is a kind of non-mechanical (cannot move around itself) ship or vessel in the category of Barge, which can carry the dumping materials (like rocks, sand, soil and rubbish) to fill up the sea, river or lake for land by the method of reclamation. ... Italian Full rigged ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large watercraft capable of deep water navigation. ... Land reclamation is either of two distinct practices. ... Cuisine (from French cuisine, cooking; culinary art; kitchen; ultimately from Latin coquere, to cook) is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture. ... In Sri Lankan cuisine a hopper is a food, used most frequently for breakfast. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 2-bay hopper cars of the Reading Railroad. ... DME 49328, a covered hopper owned and operated by the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad. ... Hopper is a proposed European Space Agency orbital craft. ...


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Hopper was born on July 22, 1882, in Nyack, New York, and studied illustration in New York City at a commercial art school from 1899 to 1900.
Although one of Hopper's paintings was exhibited in the famous Armory Show of 1913 in New York City, his work excited little interest, and he was obliged to work principally as a commercial illustrator for the next decade.
Although Hopper's work was outside the mainstream of mid-20th-century abstraction, his simplified schematic style was one of the influences on the later representational revival and on pop art.
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