Hopping vs. Hope — What's the Difference?

To move with light bounding skips or leaps.

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.

(Informal) To move quickly or be busily active

To wish for a particular event that one considers possible

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

(Archaic) To have confidence; trust.

To make a quick trip, especially in an airplane.

To desire and consider possible

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

The longing or desire for something accompanied by the belief in the possibility of its occurrence

To move over by hopping

An instance of such longing or desire

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

A source of or reason for such longing or desire

To flavor with hops.

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.

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

(Archaic) Trust; confidence.

A rebound

To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.

(Informal) A dance or dance party.

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

A short distance.

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

A short trip, especially by air.

To wish.

A free ride; a lift.

The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.

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

(countable) The actual thing wished for.

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.

(countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.

(Slang) Opium.

The virtuous desire for future good.

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

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

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

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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

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

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

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

Of a location, crowded with people.

A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

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

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.

A gathering of hops.

One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good.

That which is hoped for; an object of 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.

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

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.

To expect; to fear.

A specific instance of feeling hopeful;

The general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled;

Grounds for feeling hopeful about the future;

Someone (or something) on which expectations are centered;

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

One of the three Christian virtues

Expect and wish;

Be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes;

Intend with some possibility of fulfilment;