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Difference Between Hopping and Hope

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Definitions

Hopping

To move with light bounding skips or leaps.

Hope

Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large. As a verb, its definitions include: "expect with confidence" and "to cherish a desire with anticipation."Among its opposites are dejection, hopelessness, and despair.

Hopping

(Informal) To move quickly or be busily active
The shipping department is hopping this week.

Hope

To wish for a particular event that one considers possible
We are hoping for more financial support.

Hopping

To jump on one foot or with both feet at the same time.
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Hope

(Archaic) To have confidence; trust.

Hopping

To make a quick trip, especially in an airplane.

Hope

To desire and consider possible
I hope that you will join us for dinner. We hope to buy a house in the spring.

Hopping

To travel or move often from place to place. Often used in combination
Party-hop.

Hope

The longing or desire for something accompanied by the belief in the possibility of its occurrence
He took singing lessons in the hope of performing in the musical.
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Hopping

To move over by hopping
Hop a ditch two feet wide.

Hope

An instance of such longing or desire
Her hopes of becoming a doctor have not changed.

Hopping

(Informal) To get on (a train) surreptitiously in order to ride without paying a fare
Hop a freight train.

Hope

A source of or reason for such longing or desire
Good pitching is the team's only hope for victory.

Hopping

To flavor with hops.

Hope

Often Hope(Christianity) The theological virtue defined as the desire and search for a future good, difficult but not impossible to attain with God's help.

Hopping

A light springy jump or leap, especially on one foot or with both feet at the same time.

Hope

(Archaic) Trust; confidence.

Hopping

A rebound
The ball took a bad hop.

Hope

To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
I hope everyone enjoyed the meal.
I am still hoping that all will turn out well.

Hopping

(Informal) A dance or dance party.

Hope

To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.

Hopping

A short distance.

Hope

(intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.

Hopping

A short trip, especially by air.

Hope

To wish.

Hopping

A free ride; a lift.

Hope

The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
I still have some hope that I can get to work on time.
After losing my job, there's no hope of being able to afford my world cruise.
There is still hope that we can find our missing cat.

Hopping

A twining vine (Humulus lupulus) having lobed leaves and green female flowers arranged in conelike spikes.

Hope

(countable) The actual thing wished for.

Hopping

Hops The dried female inflorescences of this plant, containing a bitter aromatic oil. They are used in brewing to inhibit bacterial growth and to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer.

Hope

(countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.

Hopping

(Slang) Opium.

Hope

The virtuous desire for future good.

Hopping

(British) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.

Hope

A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.

Hopping

The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent

Hope

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

Hopping

The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.

Hope

(Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

Hopping

A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.

Hope

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

Hopping

Of a location, crowded with people.

Hope

A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

Hopping

The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.

Hope

A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy.
The hypocrite's hope shall perish.
He wished, but not with hope.
New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven.

Hopping

A gathering of hops.

Hope

One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good.
The Lord will be the hope of his people.
A young gentleman of great hopes, whose love of learning was highly commendable.

Hope

That which is hoped for; an object of hope.
Lavina is thine elder brother's hope.

Hope

To entertain or indulge hope; to cherish a desire of good, or of something welcome, with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable; to expect; - usually followed by for.
But I will hope continually.

Hope

To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; - usually followed by in.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.

Hope

To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of.
We hope no other from your majesty.
[Charity] hopeth all things.

Hope

To expect; to fear.

Hope

A specific instance of feeling hopeful;
It revived their hope of winning the pennant

Hope

The general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled;
In spite of his troubles he never gave up hope

Hope

Grounds for feeling hopeful about the future;
There is little or no promise that he will recover

Hope

Someone (or something) on which expectations are centered;
He was their best hope for a victory

Hope

United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (born in 1903)

Hope

One of the three Christian virtues

Hope

Expect and wish;
I trust you will behave better from now on
I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise

Hope

Be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes;
I am still hoping that all will turn out well

Hope

Intend with some possibility of fulfilment;
I hope to have finished this work by tomorrow evening

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