different between hopper vs feeder

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

Etymology

From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fid?/
• Rhymes: -i?d?(r)

Noun

feeder (plural feeders)

1. One who feeds, or gives food to another.
   1. The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
      • 2010, Niall Richardson, Transgressive Bodies:

        Often similes such as 'soft as velvet' or 'fluffy like a cloud' will be employed and the feeder will describe how he feels he can be lost in the enveloping folds of soft flesh.

2. One who feeds, or takes in food.
   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene v:

     The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder,

     Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day

     More than the wild-cat; […]
3. One who, or that which, feeds material into something.
   • 2007, Thomas E. Lightburn, The Shield and the Shark (page 173)

     When the claxon sounded they immediately stopped what they were doing and uncovered the Oerlikon. Paddy, who was ammunition feeder, stood by while Jock trained the 20mm gun around.

4. That which is used to feed.

   a bird feeder

5. A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
   • 1827, Conrad Malte-Brun, Universal Geography, or A Description of All the Parts of the World, on a New Plan, Edinburgh: Adam Black, volume 6, book 101, 285:

     The surface of the Balaton and the surrounding marshes is not less than 24 German square miles, or 384 English square miles; its principal feeder is the Szala, but all the water it receives appears inconsiderable relatively to its superficial extent, and the quantity lost in evaporation.

6. A branch line of a railway.
7. A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
8. (education) A feeder school.
9. (shipbuilding, navigation) A feeder ship.
10. (US, law) A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
11. (baseball, slang, archaic, 1800s) The pitcher.
12. (video games, derogatory) A player whose character is killed by the opposing player or team more than once, deliberately or through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side.
13. (obsolete) One who abets another.
14. (obsolete) A parasite.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• ferede, reefed, refeed

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish *figedóir (“weaver”) (compare Irish fíodóir, Scottish Gaelic figheadair), from figid (“weaves, plaits, intertwines”, verb); synchronically, fee +? -der.

Noun

feeder m (genitive singular feeder, plural feederyn)

1. spider

   Synonym: doo-oallee

2. weaver

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “figedóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language