What's the difference between hoper and hopper?

Hoper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who hopes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Only in one part of England did Ukip tank, shrugged off like a no-hoper fringe party rather than the coming force in British politics.
  • (2) He was 13 when he discovered acting at the Vardean school for boys in Brighton, where he was considered an academic no-hoper.
  • (3) After the early exit of no-hopers Lincoln Chafee and Jim Webb, Hillary Clinton is running against three remaining opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 : Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley and herself.
  • (4) ; The Season Saga; The Clod Hoper, Belly Laughs, The Little Woman, Pulp Fairies; The Grumpy Court Jester (BBC Children’s television – Playdays); Fact of Faith (BBC Radio Drama Young Writer’s Festival); The Victim (Royal Court Young Writer’s Festival & InterPlay Festival, Australia).
  • (5) A sporting embarrassment to rival the hapless play of the stereotypical no-hoper Brit crashing out on day one The Yorkshire Post But the continuing criticism has now led to a more fundamental overhaul.
  • (6) The new series brings a familiar mix of wannabes, no-hopers and genuinely outstanding talent, marshalled by ITV's two other big stars, Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly.
  • (7) The programme is the familiar mix of no-hopers, talented singers and surprise packages, including a 37-year-old painter and director who refuses to take no for an answer and a singer whose mother brings the panel Chinese food.
  • (8) Sanders entered the Democratic race as an apparent no-hoper but trounced Clinton in the New Hampshire primary with the help of digital activism and fundraising, though he remains the underdog as the race continues.
  • (9) In evidence to the Chilcot inquiry , Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely, the UK's senior military representative in Baghdad at the time, quoted Rumsfeld as saying growing attacks in 2004 were the work of a "bunch of no-hopers".
  • (10) They want results, and for every no-hoper they kick off the 11-plus course, there are another 10 kids eager to get a look in.
  • (11) Policymakers who misuse genetics to argue that a child's fate is all-but preordained may stop investing in "no-hopers".
  • (12) Good luck to the no-hopers as they prepare to play Uruguay.
  • (13) But he’s a basic fighter, which is why I call him Average Joe.” Saunders, however, is much skilful than any of the journeymen and no-hopers who feature on Eubank’s record .
  • (14) Fans in Australia already knew what an astute operator he is but the way he has transformed the Socceroos from no-hopers to attacking hellfire types in a matter of months means others outside his home country have taken note.

Hopper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, hops.
  • (n.) A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.
  • (n.) See Grasshopper, 2.
  • (n.) A game. See Hopscotch.
  • (n.) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.
  • (n.) The larva of a cheese fly.
  • (n.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hopper was a miner for 27 years at Wearmouth colliery, which was on the site where the Stadium of Light stands.
  • (2) Dyer declared a state of emergency, and alongside Mina, Hopper and a local imam urged Americans to give blood and unite.
  • (3) The resulting sequence shows 94% identity with that of the corresponding peptide from calf skin collage (Fietzek, P. P., Rexrodt, F. W., Hopper, K. E., and Kühn, K. (1973), Eur.
  • (4) The Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant ts351 had been shown to affect processing of 27S pre-rRNA to mature 25S and 5.8S rRNAs (C. Andrew, A. K. Hopper, and B. D. Hall, Mol.
  • (5) I imagine the unseen rooms, and scenes from Edward Hopper.
  • (6) One reason his name did not endure as long as, for example, his contemporary Edward Hopper was his early death, aged 42, from appendicitis.
  • (7) But regular hoppers can also buy London Cure smoked salmon from Waitrose, Ocado and some Sainsbury’s branches, and it will be stocked by 100 Tesco stores from October.
  • (8) Jonathan Hopper, the managing director of buying agents Garrington Property Finders, said the brisk pace in June was likely to be the high water mark for the property market for some time.
  • (9) The leaf-hopper P. pictus is a well-known pest of Calotropis plants.
  • (10) He didn’t languish in movie jail like Mickey Rourke; he didn’t fall off the map for a decade like Dennis Hopper.
  • (11) After his death the obituaries proclaimed Bellows one of the greatest of all American painters – a man more famous at the time than his friend and contemporary Edward Hopper.
  • (12) Hopper believed that programs should be written in a language that was close to English rather than in machine code or languages close to machine code.
  • (13) Cutting down the possibility of hay dust entering the rabbits' eyes led to marked improvement: the conjunctivitis was virtually eliminated when hay was given in a specially-designed solid-sided hopper which prevented the release of dust during feeding and which, being detachable, could be refilled away from the rabbit rooms to minimize general atmospheric dust.
  • (14) The most severe fibrosis was found in the quartz-treated animals, followed in order of intensity by the heated clay, volcano, ash, hopper coal ash, stack coal ash, and coal-oil mixture ash.
  • (15) As she continued her work, Hopper served as the director of the US Navy Programming Languages Group in the Navy's Office of Information Systems Planning from 1967 to 1977 and was promoted to the rank of captain in 1973.
  • (16) This face-off between Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken showcases Scott's deft way with dialogue, as well as detonations.
  • (17) The results indicate that although different hoppers affect the quantitative nature of the results, the same general trends are apparent.
  • (18) When viewing with the lateral field alone, subjects were initially unable to locate the food hopper and, even after retraining, conditioned peck localization was profoundly disrupted.
  • (19) Lazaretto is dedicated to three feminist pioneers: Florence Green from Norfolk, the last surviving veteran of the first world war until her death in 2012; the American anarchist and writer Voltairine de Cleyre; and "Amazing" Grace Hopper , a computer scientist and rear admiral in the US navy.
  • (20) Elsewhere, levels of buyer confidence remain solid, but with the surge in purchases by buy-to-let buyers now over, sellers now need to think more carefully about pricing competitively,” said Hopper.

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