Hopper

A slant or gravity wagon is essentially a hopper

Hopper may refer to:

Hopper is one of the beautiful plane and prosperous region of district Hunza-Nagar. Hopper is green, modern valley of Nagar region. There are five villages namely, Hakalshal, Rattal, Broshal, Holshal and Ghashoshal. The population of this are is around 10,000. It is situated at the altitude of 3000 m. Two famous mountains of Nagar valley, Golden peak and Shelter peak are also situated in this area. The famous glaciers named, Hopper and Hisper help to increase the beauty and importance of this area more.

Mechanical parts

• A general term for a chute with additional width and depth to provide a volume for temporary storage of material(s). The bottom of the hopper chute typically has a mechanism to control the flow of materials, thus allowing them to be metered out at the desired rate.
• Part of a combine harvester
• Part of a paintball gun

Transportation

• Hopper (spacecraft), a proposed spacecraft
• Hopper balloon, a kind of ultralight hot air balloon
• Hopper barge, a kind of barge
• Hopper car, a type of railway freight car
• Slant wagon, a type of wagon that is essentially a hopper; used in agriculture.
• Space Hopper, a self powered mode of transportation.
• USS Hopper, a U.S. Navy destroyer

Insects

• Leafhopper, a member of the family Cicadellidae
• Treehopper, a member of the family Membracidae (typical treehoppers) or Aetalionidae
• The immature form of a locust

People with the surname Hopper

• Andy Hopper (born 1953), British computer scientist
• Dennis Hopper (born 1936), American actor
• DeWolf Hopper (1858–1935), American actor, singer, comedian and producer
• Edward Hopper (1882–1967), American painter and printmaker
• Franz Hopper, fictional character in Code Lyoko
• Grace Hopper (1906–1992), American computer scientist and naval officer
• Heather Hopper (born 1976), American actress
• Hedda Hopper (1885–1966), American actress and gossip columnist
• Hugh Hopper (1945—2009), English guitarist and composer
• Isaac Hopper (1771–1852), American abolitionist and underground railroad pioneer
• Josephine Hopper (1883–1968), American artist and wife of Edward Hopper
• Kev Hopper (born 1961), musician
• Paul Hopper, American linguist of British birth
• Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell (1886–1985), American artist best known for Hawaiian themes
• Thomas Hopper (1776–1856), English architect
• Wilbert Hopper (1933–2006), Canadian business executive
• William Hopper (1915–1970), American actor

Other meanings

• Profession of one who harvests hops and lives in a Hopper hut
• Hopper (food)
• fairy chess piece
• The Hoppers, a Southern Gospel group
• The bill hopper, wooden box on the US House of Representatives Clerk's desk in which bills or resolutions to be voted over are deposited.
• Hopper (A Bug's Life) the primary antagonist in Disney's A Bug's Life
• young street level drug dealer
• slang for toilet - "I'm going to hit the hopper"
• device that sits on top of a paintball gun (also known as a loader) [2]

See also

• Hop