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[hohp] 
noun, verb, hoped, hop⋅ing.| 1. | the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope. |
| 2. | a particular instance of this feeling: the hope of winning. |
| 3. | grounds for this feeling in a particular instance: There is little or no hope of his recovery. |
| 4. | a person or thing in which expectations are centered: The medicine was her last hope. |
| 5. | something that is hoped for: Her forgiveness is my constant hope. |
| 6. | to look forward to with desire and reasonable confidence. |
| 7. | to believe, desire, or trust: I hope that my work will be satisfactory. |
| 8. | to feel that something desired may happen: We hope for an early spring. |
| 9. | Archaic. to place trust; rely (usually fol. by in). |
| 10. | hope against hope, to continue to hope, although the outlook does not warrant it: We are hoping against hope for a change in her condition. |
bef. 900; (n.) ME; OE hopa; c. D hoop, G Hoffe; (v.) ME hopen, OE hopian
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[hohp] | 1. | Anthony, pen name of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins. |
| 2. | Bob (Leslie Townes Hope), 1903–2003, U.S. comedian, born in England. |
| 3. | John, 1868–1936, U.S. educator. |
| 4. | a town in SW Arkansas. 10,290. |
| 5. | a female given name. |
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| hope (hōp) v. hoped, hop·ing, hopes v. intr.
[Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian.] hop'er n. |
| Hope, Bob Originally Leslie Towne Hope. 1903-2003. British-born American entertainer. He costarred with Bing Crosby in the popular "Road" films, beginning with the Road to Singapore (1940). Since 1940 he has traveled extensively to entertain U.S. troops overseas. |
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Hope\, n. [Cf. Icel. h[=o]p a small bay or inlet.]1. A sloping plain between mountain ridges. [Obs.] 2. A small bay; an inlet; a haven. [Scot.] --Jamieson.Hope
Hope\, n. [AS., akin to D. hoop, hope, Sw. hopp, Dan. haab, MHG. hoffe. Hope in forlorn hope is different word. See Forlorn hope, under Forlorn.]1. 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. --Job vii. 13. He wished, but not with hope. --Milton. New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven. --Keble. 2. One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good. The Lord will be the hope of his people. --Joel iii. 16. A young gentleman of great hopes, whose love of learning was highly commendable. --Macaulay. 3. That which is hoped for; an object of hope. Lavina is thine elder brother's hope. --Shak.Hope
Hope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hoped; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoping.] [AS. hopian; akin to D. hopen, Sw. hopp?, Dan. haabe, G. hoffen. See 2nd Hope.]1. 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. "Hope for good success." --Jer. Taylor. But I will hope continually. --Ps. lxxi. 14. 2. To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; -- usually followed by in. "I hope in thy word." --Ps. cxix. 81. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God. --Ps. xlii. 11.Hope
Hope\, v. t. 1. 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. --Shak. [Charity] hopeth all things. --1 Cor. xiii. 7. 2. To expect; to fear. [Obs.] "I hope he will be dead." --Chaucer. Note: Hope is often used colloquially regarding uncertainties, with no reference to the future. "I hope she takes me to be flesh and blood." --Mrs. Centlivre.Cite This Source
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Hope language
A functional programming language designed by R.M. Burstall, D.B. MacQueen and D.T. Sanella at University of Edinburgh in 1978. It is a large language supporting user-defined prefix, infix or distfix operators. Hope has polymorphic typing and allows overloading of operators which requires explicit type declarations. Hope has lazy lists and was the first language to use call-by-pattern.
It has been ported to Unix, Macintosh, and IBM PC.
See also Hope+, Hope+C, Massey Hope, Concurrent Massey Hope.
(ftp://brolga.cc.uq.oz.au/pub/hope).
[R.M.Burstall, D.B.MacQueen, D.T.Sanella, "HOPE: An experimental applicative language", Proc. 1980 Lisp conf., Stanford, CA, p.136-143, Aug 1980].
["A HOPE Tutorial", R. Bailey, BYTE Aug 1985, pp.235-258].
["Functional Programming with Hope", R. Bailey, Ellis Horwood 1990].
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Hope
one of the three main elements of Christian character (1 Cor. 13:13). It is joined to faith and love, and is opposed to seeing or possessing (Rom. 8:24; 1 John 3:2). "Hope is an essential and fundamental element of Christian life, so essential indeed, that, like faith and love, it can itself designate the essence of Christianity (1 Pet. 3:15; Heb. 10:23). In it the whole glory of the Christian vocation is centred (Eph. 1:18; 4:4)." Unbelievers are without this hope (Eph. 2:12; 1 Thess. 4:13). Christ is the actual object of the believer's hope, because it is in his second coming that the hope of glory will be fulfilled (1 Tim. 1:1; Col. 1:27; Titus 2:13). It is spoken of as "lively", i.e., a living, hope, a hope not frail and perishable, but having a perennial life (1 Pet. 1:3). In Rom. 5:2 the "hope" spoken of is probably objective, i.e., "the hope set before us," namely, eternal life (comp. 12:12). In 1 John 3:3 the expression "hope in him" ought rather to be, as in the Revised Version, "hope on him," i.e., a hope based on God.
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hope
In addition to the idioms beginning with hope, also see great white hope; in hopes of; live in (hope of); not a hope in hell; pin one's hopes on; while there's life, there's hope.
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Hope
district municipality, southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the Coquihalla and Fraser rivers in the forested Coast Mountains, near Mount Hope (6,000 feet [1,829 metres]), 90 miles (145 km) east of Vancouver. The Hudson's Bay Company established Fort Hope on the site in 1848-49, an event commemorated by a cairn at the intersection of the Trans-Canada Highway and Wallace Street. Hope became a busy outpost during the Fraser River gold rush in the late 1850s. Now a major railway and highway junction, its economy depends largely on lumbering, mining (nickel and copper), and tourism (based on such local attractions as the Fraser River Canyon and Skagit Valley). Inc. village, 1929; town, 1965. Pop. (2006) 6,185.
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