hoppers

Containers for grain

Hoppers is the plural of hopper, which names things that hop or receive things dropped into them.

Grasshoppers and rabbits are hoppers.

A hopper is also a container that funnels material downward—grain hoppers feed mills, coal hoppers feed furnaces.

In computing, a printer's hopper holds paper.

Hopper cars on trains carry bulk goods.

The hoppers were full of wheat waiting to be milled.

jumping

leap

Sudden springing movement

skip · pounce · hopscotch · kangaroo · frog · rabbit

insects

locust

Swarming crop-eating insect

cricket · katydid · springtail · froghopper · antennae · mandibles · exoskeleton · thorax · abdomen · larvae

containers

freight

Goods being transported

  • railcarTrack-bound transport vessel
  • funnelCone directing flow
  • chuteInclined passage for descent

silo · bin · loading · discharge · bulk · capacity · storage · conveyor · aggregate · mining

cricket

batting

Swinging at pitches

innings · overs · runout · duck · century · maiden · pitch · crease · fielder · umpire

food

fermented

Transformed by microbial action

breakfast · lacy · crispy · steamed

Categories
Opposites
locomotion mode

hopperscrawlers

Those who move prone

sliders · slitherers · creepers · walkers · swimmers

material handling function

hoppersreservoirs

Bodies storing water supply

tanks · bins · sealed containers · cisterns · vats

commitment/stability

hoppersstayers

Those who remain

lifers · loyalists · homebodies · settlers · fixtures

Phrases
Family

hopped, grasshopper, hopper, grasshoppers

Familiarity
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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G