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Meaning of "sand hopper" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SAND HOPPER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SAND HOPPER

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Sand hopper is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SAND HOPPER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

sand hopper

Talitridae

Talitridae is a family of amphipods. Terrestrial species are often referred to as landhoppers and beach dwellers are called sandhoppers or sand fleas. The name sand flea is misleading because these talitrid amphipods do not bite people. Marine amphipods are often washed up in the strandline, but die rapidly on drying out. Talitrids differ in being able to survive for a long time out of water; some Southern Hemisphere species are entirely terrestrial. It contains the following genera: ▪ Africorchestia Lowry & Coleman, 2011 ▪ Agilestia Friend, 1982 ▪ Americorchestia Bousfield, 1991 ▪ Arcitalitrus Hurley, 1975 ▪ Atlantorchestoidea Serejo, 2004 ▪ Australorchestia Serejo & Lowry, 2008 ▪ Austrotroides Friend, 1982 ▪ Bellorchestia Serejo & Lowry, 2008 ▪ Bousfieldia Chou & Lee, 1996 ▪ Brevitalitrus Bousfield, 1971 ▪ Britorchestia Lowry &...

Definition of sand hopper in the English dictionary

The definition of sand hopper in the dictionary is any of various small hopping amphipod crustaceans of the genus Orchestia and related genera, common in intertidal regions of seashores Also called: beach flea, sand flea.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SAND HOPPER

sand colic
sand crab
sand crack
sand dab
sand desert
sand dollar
sand dune
sand eel
sand flea
sand goby
sand lance
sand launce
sand leek
sand lizard
sand martin
sand painting
sand shrimp
sand smelt
sand table
sand trap

WORDS THAT END LIKE SAND HOPPER

chart topper
chopper
come a cropper
copper
cropper
dropper
eyedropper
flopper
grasshopper
hopper
name-dropper
pepper
personal shopper
popper
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show stopper
showstopper
stopper
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whopper

Synonyms and antonyms of sand hopper in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «sand hopper» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SAND HOPPER

Find out the translation of sand hopper to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sand hopper from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sand hopper» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

砂斗
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tolva de arena
570 millions of speakers

English

sand hopper
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रेत कूदनेवाला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

واثب الرمال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

песок бункер
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

areia hopper
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বালি দড়ি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sable trémie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Harimau pasir
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sandtrichter
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハマトビムシ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

모래 호퍼
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hopper pasir
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phễu cát
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மணல் துளைப்பான்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाळू हॉपर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kum haznesi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pulce di mare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

piasek lej
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пісок бункер
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sand hopper
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χοάνη άμμο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sand hopper
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sandtratten
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sand hopper
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sand hopper

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SAND HOPPER»

The term «sand hopper» is used very little and occupies the 164.652 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SAND HOPPER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sand hopper

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SAND HOPPER»

Discover the use of sand hopper in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sand hopper and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Shipwrecks Along Lake Superior's North Shore: A Diver's Guide
A Diver's Guide Stephen B. Daniel. Historic Artifacts in Lake Superior at Duluth Fig. 32: The sand and gravel hopper with conveyor system in place, April 1920. Photo by Hugh McKenzie courtesy of Kenneth E. Thro Collection, Lake Superior  ...
Stephen B. Daniel, 2008
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Every Saturday: A Journal of Choice Reading
Crawling along on the moist sand a fine sand- hopper was making its way towards bits of seaweed, to which it seemed attracted ; it moved very slowly, unconscious that an enemy was watching it. and soon began feasting on the weed.
‎1867
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Chambers's Journal
Crawling along on the moist sand, a fine sand- hopper was making its way towards some bits of sea-weed, to which it seemed attracted ; it moved very slowly, unconscious that an enemy was watching it, and soon began feasting on the weed.
William Chambers, Robert Chambers, 1867
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Sand: The Never-ending Story
One of a now classic series of brightly painted tin and steel toys, Sandy Andy was a tower from which a sand hopper filled a small truck that then rushed down, emptied itself, and rushed back up again. Production continued at least until the ...
Michael Welland, 2009
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MiniMaths 2
The sand hopper song All do the actions to go with the song. This little sand hopper broke his toe, (hold up thumb) This little sand hopper said, "oh, oh!" (hold up first finger) This little sand hopper laughed and was glad, (hold up middle finger) ...
Kim Connor, 2000
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Direct support and general support maintenance repair parts ...
USABLE ON CODE UNIT 7503 (CONT) 40 1 XBOZZ 05643 A8 15-1 04* END, BIN EXTENSION SAND HOPPER EA 3 40 2 PAOZZ 5305-00-044-4153 96906 MS90725-109 SCREW , CAP . HEXAGON H BIN EXTENS 1 ON END ATTACH 1  ...
United States. Dept. of the Army, 1983
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Control Of Electrical Machines
11.15 CONTROL OF THREE CONVEYORS A conveyor system, discussed here, consists of three conveyors used to transfer sand from silos (large container) to the sand hopper of a mould making machine used in a foundry. The arrangement  ...
S K Bhattacharya
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Hospitality and Tourism: Synergizing Creativity and ...
It consists of a rotating sand hopper that sits on a manual lifter. The sand hopper was driven by an electric motor in which the speed was preset. The height of sand fall was manually adjusted. The sand hopper was made to a dimension just  ...
Norzuwana Sumarjan, Zahari Mohd Salehuddin Mohd, Radzi Salleh Mohd, 2013
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New Scientist
Naylor's research focused on Talitrus saltator, a common sand hopper on beaches from Britain to the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean populations use an in-built "compass" to find their way home, but their British relatives do not. Instead ...
10
Port Engineering: Planning, Construction, Maintenance, and ...
Equipment and Placement Techniques Comments Surface discharge using conventional equipment Spreading by barge movement Hydraulic washing of coarse sand Hopper dredge (cracked openings or pump down) Pipeline with baffle ...
Gregory P. Tsinker, 2004

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SAND HOPPER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sand hopper is used in the context of the following news items.
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These Tiny Animals Live Only on Driftwood
These crustaceans include sand hoppers (also known as sand fleas) along with ocean-living species. Within this family, the driftwood hoppers are ... «Discover Magazine, Oct 14»
2
Northern Frac Proppants II, LLC, the latest frac-sand producer to …
We are also investing C$45 million over a multi-year time frame to upgrade our rail lines in northern Alberta to handle frac-sand hopper cars of up to 286,000 ... «PR Newswire, Sep 14»
3
4 Upstate NY workers injured when one is buried alive in sand hopper
Four men were loading a hopper Monday morning at Frontier Sand and Gravel in the town of Barre, 30 miles west of Rochester, the Orleans County Sheriff's ... «The Post-Standard - syracuse.com, Aug 14»
4
Berkeley Built: Sand hoppers at Second and Cedar streets
These sand hoppers are at the Monterey Sand Company plant on Second and Cedar streets in Berkeley. I included this image as the only urban structure to ... «Berkeleyside, Sep 12»
5
Beachcombers Guide to Barrier Island Ecology
These relatives of shrimp hide under seaweed and other sheltering objects and hop about when disturbed, earning them the common name sand hopper or ... «Wrightsville Beach Magazine, Aug 12»
6
Training and Teamwork Pays Off at Sand Hopper Rescue
The sand hopper was one of several in a line used to make concrete panels for buildings. There was a catwalk 30 feet up that the employees could use to ... «FireEngineering.com, Mar 12»
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Quality Concrete owner indicted in August 2007 child's death
Duclos, 9, died in August 2007, a day after falling into a concrete sand hopper at the Quality Concrete site, 254 Tripp St. Police said Duclos and friends had been ... «Wicked Local Fall River, Jun 09»

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