different between hopper vs chopper

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoppere, alteration of *hoppe (found in gras-hoppe (“grasshopper”)), from Old English hoppa (“one who hops, hopper”), equivalent to hop +? -er. Cognate with Dutch hopper (“hopper”), Swedish hoppare (“hopper, jumper”), Icelandic hoppari (“hopper”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?p.?(?)/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?h?p.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?.p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(r)

Noun

hopper (plural hoppers)

1. One who or that which hops.
2. A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
3. A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
4. A device that feeds material into a machine.
5. Various insects
   1. A grasshopper or locust, especially:
      1. The immature form of a locust.
   2. The larva of a cheese fly.
   3. A leafhopper.
   4. Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
6. An artificial fishing lure.

   To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface.

7. (slang) A toilet.
   • 2010, Robert Hudson, Stories of an Unusual Life (page 250)

     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 […]

8. (music) An escapement lever in a piano.
9. (obsolete) The game of hopscotch.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

10. A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.
11. A hopper car.
12. (chess) A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.
13. A person or machine that picks hops.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

hopper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Sinhalese ???? (?ppa).

Noun

hopper (plural hoppers)

1. A Sri Lankan food made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.

Danish

Noun

hopper c

1. indefinite plural of hoppe

Verb

hopper

1. present of hoppe

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hopper m or f

1. indefinite plural of hoppe

Verb

hopper

1. present of hoppe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hopper f

1. indefinite plural of hoppe

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??p.?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?t??p.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t??.p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(?)

Etymology 1

chop +? -er

Noun

chopper (plural choppers)

1. A tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.
2. A knife for chopping food.
3. (archaeology) A crude tool with an irregular cutting edge formed by removing flakes from one side of a stone.
4. A thick mitten, usually with yellow leather on the outside.
5. (slang) The penis.
6. (informal) A type of road motorcycle, especially as used by biker/bikie gangs.
7. (slang) An assault rifle, especially a fully-automatic one (e.g. an AK-47).
8. (electronics) Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.
9. (Canada, US) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

Synonyms

• (slang: penis): See Thesaurus:penis.

Translations

Etymology 2

From the onomatopoeia for the "chop-chop" sound emitted by the main rotor blades of the Bell 47 'OH-13 Sioux' "Angel of Mercy" helicopter, encountered by troops during the Korean War

Noun

chopper (plural choppers)

1. (informal) A helicopter.

Synonyms

• (helicopter): whirlybird

Translations

Verb

chopper (third-person singular simple present choppers, present participle choppering, simple past and past participle choppered)

1. (informal) To travel or transport by helicopter.

Translations

Anagrams

• prechop

French

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.pe/

Verb

chopper

1. (archaic, intransitive) to stumble

Conjugation

Derived terms

• choper

Further reading

• “chopper” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).