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• Its trains comprise purpose-built covered hoppers that can run at 60mph loaded and 75mph empty.2020 September 23, Paul Shannon, “Freight train speeds: do they matter?”, in Rail, page 72. From the entry haulier
• Repairs or replacement of rainwater downpipes and hoppers, clearing out and renewal of weep holes.2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in Rail, page 27. From the entry weephole
• String hopper kottu, or gossamer rice-flour noodles, are molded with vegetables into a pyramid.2015 July 24, Julie Besonen, “Two Good Reasons to Visit St. George: The National Lighthouse Museum and Sri Lankan Food”, in New York Times. From the entry kottu
• Nonuniform gas flow or maldistribution will result in poor collection, excessive reentrainment, or hopper sweepage.2010, Mario L. Occelli, Advances in Fluid Catalytic Cracking, →ISBN, page 366. From the entry sweepage
• In the middle of the table, a roll-down hopper connected to a flashboard.2003, Robert L. Shook, Jackpot!: Harrah's Winning Secrets for Customer Loyalty, page 9. From the entry flashboard
• Accordingly, alternative dredge plants were analyzed, including pipeline, hopper, and the conventional sidecast dredge.1979, Lockwoods Folly Inlet: Environmental Impact Statement, page 35. From the entry sidecast
• Beside us there was a big 'hopper sailing through the air.1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 157. From the entry 'hopper
• There are, however, no emergency hopper windows, so if the air-con goes down on a hot day, you will cook!2023 January 26, Pip Dunn, “Merseyrail '777s' are OK for commuters”, in RAIL, number 988, page 60. From the entry go down
• Some stations have collection vehicles unload on the floor, using a front loader to push material into the hopper.1998, Robert A Corbitt, Standard handbook of environmental engineering. From the entry unload
• This is achieved by installing antisneakage baffles in the top, bottom, hoppers, and sides of the precipitator casing.1997, William L. Heumann, Industrial air pollution control systems, page 486. From the entry antisneakage
• One consequence of poor gas flow is hopper sweepage.1978, Sabert Oglesby, Grady B. Nichols, Electrostatic Precipitation, volume 21, page 260. From the entry sweepage
• Already in the hopper was another bill, by Florida's stanch New Deal Senator Claude Pepper, to outlaw poll taxes altogether.1942 September 14, “U.S. At War: Revolution from Above”, in Time. From the entry in the hopper
• As the product is dumped from the hopper conveyor through the podder chain into the hopper, the secondary fan removes most of the remaining trash.2012, Douglas M. Considine, Foods and Food Production Encyclopedia, page 172. From the entry podder
• Kotick put a lot of faith in the new “Call of Duty” game due out Tuesday and the other titles in the hopper.2009 November 5, Jay Miller, “Activision Blizzard Swings to Profit”, in Wall Street Journal. From the entry in the hopper
• The sewage is pretreated mechanically before proceeding to a sedimentator with a sprinkling system and a sludge collection hopper connected to an aeration tank.1976, United States. Office of International Marketing, Air and Water Purification and Pollution Control Equipment, page 115. From the entry sedimentator
• Gorrus or indigenous seed drills, with one and two seed hoppers, and akkadi tied to the second tine of the drill on the right.1960, V. T. Subbiah Mudaliar, South Indian Field Crops: By V.T.Subbiah Mudaliar. From the entry gorru
• Gondolas with drop or hopper doors not boarded over should have lading cleated and chocked so as to prevent shifting over doors.1915, Railway Line Clearances and Car Dimensions Including Weight Limitations of Railroads in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba. From the entry chock
• Sneakage occurs when a portion of the gas bypasses the electrified regions of the ESP by flowing through the hopper area and high voltage feed-through areas.2012, Barbara Toole-O'Neil, Dry Scrubbing Technologies for Flue Gas Desulfurization, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry sneakage
• When Schoppville’s incinerator failed to solve the garbage disposal problem, the surplus was hauled up a ramp and dumped into hoppers for the trip to Mudville flats.1969, Harold H. Carstens, editor, Railroad Model Craftsman, volume 38, Ramsey, N.J.: Model Craftsman Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry garbagey
• The full capacity, however, requires a hopper of a size that takes the wagon body up to 11ft 11½in above rail level, which would foul many existing colliery screens.1963 July, “News and Comment: The future of coal by rail”, in Modern Railways, page 5. From the entry foul
• Instead of passing the whole vines into the machine, the pods are picked off by hand and these are fed into the machine through a hopper.1907, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Crops, page 170. From the entry podder

Meaning of hopper

1. noun One who or that which hops.
2. noun A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
3. noun 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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Questions about hopper in a sentence

How do you use hopper in a sentence?

Hopper is used as a noun. For example: “To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface.”

What is a short sentence with hopper?

““And the next year the hoppers came.”

What does hopper mean?

Hopper means one who or that which hops.