Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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hopper

UK /ˈhɒp.ə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈhɑ.pɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms hoppers

  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.
  4. noun A bin or device that feeds material into a machine.
  5. noun Any of various insects known for hopping, especially a grasshopper or locust, the immature form of a locust, or the larva of various flies and beetles.
  6. noun An artificial fishing lure. “To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface.”
  7. noun (slang) A toilet.
  8. noun (music) An escapement lever in a piano.
  9. noun A Sri Lankan pancake made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.
  10. proper noun A surname.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Stronghurst Township, Henderson County, Illinois, United States.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States.

Synonyms

feedbin feeder hop-picker grasshopper grounder ground ball groundball

Etymology

From Middle English hoppere, alteration of *hoppe (found in grashoppe (“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”).

From Sinhalese ආප්ප (āppa), from Tamil ஆப்பம் (āppam). Doublet of appam.

* As an English and Scottish surname, from the verb hop; identical to hopper.
* As a German surname, from hoppen (“to stumble, limp”), related to above.
* As a Dutch surname, from hop (“Humulus lupulus”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, hops.
  2. noun 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.

Etymology [See 1st Hop.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “hopper”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details