Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 45
Hook (v. t.) To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice. -- W. Collins.
Hook (v. t.) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
Hook (v. t.) To steal. [Colloq. Eng. & U.S.]
To hook on, To fasten or attach by, or as by, hook.
Hook (v. i.) To bend; to curve as a hook.
Hook (v. i.) To move or go with a sudden turn; hence [Slang or Prov. Eng.], to make off; to clear out; -- often with it. "Duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it." -- Kipling.
Hook (n.) A catch for locking a door.
Hook (n.) A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook [syn: hook, crotchet].
Hook (n.) Anything that serves as an enticement [syn: bait, come-on, hook, lure, sweetener].
Hook (n.) A mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something [syn: hook, claw].
Hook (n.) A curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something.
Hook (n.) A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his hooking" [syn: hook, draw, hooking].
Hook (n.) A short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent.
Hook (n.) A basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket [syn: hook shot, hook].
Hook (v.) Fasten with a hook [ant: unhook].
Hook (v.) Rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook] [ant: undercharge].
Hook (v.) Make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle; "She sat there crocheting all day" [syn: crochet, hook].
Hook (v.) Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the Left.
Hook (v.) Take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!" [syn: hook, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom].
Hook (v.) Make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift].
Hook (v.) Hit with a hook; "His opponent hooked him badly."
Hook (v.) Catch with a hook; "hook a fish."
Hook (v.) To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) [syn: addict, hook].
Hook (v.) Secure with the foot; "hook the ball".
Hook (v.) Entice and trap; "The car salesman had snared three potential customers" [syn: hook, snare].
Hook (v.) Approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park" [syn: hook, solicit, accost].
Hook (n.) A software or hardware feature included in order to simplify later additions or changes by a user. For example, a simple program that prints numbers might always print them in base 10, but a more flexible version would let a variable determine what base to use; setting the variable to 5 would make the program print numbers in base 5. The variable is a simple hook. An even more flexible program might examine the variable and treat a value of 16 or less as the base to use, but treat any other number as the address of a user-supplied routine for printing a number. This is a hairy but powerful hook; one can then write a routine to print numbers as Roman numerals, say, or as Hebrew characters, and plug it into the program through the hook. Often the difference between a good program and a superb one is that the latter has useful hooks in judiciously chosen places. Both may do the original job about equally well, but the one with the hooks is much more flexible for future expansion of capabilities ({EMACS, for example, is all hooks). The term user exit is synonymous but much more formal and less hackish.
HOOK, () ? Object Oriented Kernel. Delphia. An object-oriented extension of Delphia Prolog. [{Jargon File]
Hook, () A software or hardware feature included in order to simplify later additions or changes by a user.
For example, a simple program that prints numbers might always print them in base 10, but a more flexible version would let a variable determine what base to use; setting the variable to 5 would make the program print numbers in base 5. The variable is a simple hook. An even more flexible program might examine the variable and treat a value of 16 or less as the base to use, but treat any other number as the address of a user-supplied routine for printing a number. This is a hairy but powerful hook; one can then write a routine to print numbers as Roman numerals, say, or as Hebrew characters, and plug it into the program through the hook.
Often the difference between a good program and a superb one is that the latter has useful hooks in judiciously chosen places. Both may do the original job about equally well, but the one with the hooks is much more flexible for future expansion of capabilities.
Emacs, for example, is *all* hooks.
The term "user exit" is synonymous but much more formal and less hackish. (1997-06-25)
Hook, () Heb. hah, a "ring" inserted in the nostrils of animals to which a cord was fastened for the purpose of restraining them (2 Kings 19:28; Isa. 37:28, 29; Ezek. 29:4; 38:4). "The Orientals make use of this contrivance for curbing their work-beasts...When a beast becomes unruly they have only to draw the cord on one side, which, by stopping his breath, punishes him so effectually that after a few repetitions he fails not to become quite tractable whenever he begins to feel it" (Michaelis). So God's agents are never beyond his control.
Hook, () Hakkah, a fish "hook" (Job 41:2, Heb. Text, 40:25; Isa. 19:8; Hab. 1:15).
Hook, () Vav, a "peg" on which the curtains of the tabernacle were hung (Ex. 26:32).
Hook, () Tsinnah, a fish-hooks (Amos 4:2).
Hook, () Mazleg, flesh-hooks (1 Sam. 2:13, 14), a kind of fork with three teeth for turning the sacrifices on the fire, etc.
Hook, () Mazmeroth, pruning-hooks (Isa. 2:4; Joel 3:10).
Hook, () 'Agmon (Job 41:2, Heb. Text 40:26), incorrectly rendered in the Authorized Version. Properly a rush-rope for binding animals, as in Revised Version margin.
Hookah (n.) A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. Also called narghile and water pipe. The hubble-bubble is a simple form of this device.
Hookah (n.) An oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola" [syn: hookah, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, chicha, calean, kalian, water pipe, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly].
Hook-billed (a.) (Zool.) Having a strongly curved bill.
Hooked (a.) Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.
Hooked (a.) Provided with a hook or hooks. "The hooked chariot." -- Milton.
Hooked (a.) Curved down like an eagle's beak [syn: aquiline, hooked].
Hooked (a.) Addicted to a drug [syn: dependent, dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out].
Hooked (a.) Having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold); "hooklike thorns"; [syn: hooklike, hooked].
Hookedness (n.) The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.
Hooker (n.) One who, or that which, hooks.
Hooker (n.) (Naut.) A Dutch vessel with two masts.
Hooker (n.) (Naut.) A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland.
Hooker (n.) (Naut.) A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
Hooker (n.) United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879) [syn: Hooker, Joseph Hooker, Fighting Joe Hooker].
Hooker (n.) English theologian (1554-1600) [syn: Hooker, Richard Hooker].
Hooker (n.) A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets [syn: streetwalker, street girl, hooker, hustler, floozy, floozie, slattern].
Hooker (n.) A golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers).
Hooker (n.) (Rugby) The player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot.
Hooker -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 783
Housing Units (2000): 440
Land area (2000): 721.165668 sq. miles (1867.810427 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.340928 sq. miles (0.882999 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 721.506596 sq. miles (1868.693426 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.042065 N, 101.081138 W
Headwords:
Hooker
Hooker, NE
Hooker County
Hooker
County, NE
Hooker, OK -- U.S. city in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 1788
Housing Units (2000): 812
Land area (2000): 0.912075 sq. miles (2.362264 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.912075 sq. miles (2.362264 sq. km)
FIPS code: 36000
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.861425 N, 101.213915 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Hooker, OK
Hooker
Hooke's gearing () (Mach.) Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.
Hooke's joint () (Mach.) A universal joint. See under Universal.
Hockey (n.) [From Hook, n.] A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.
Hockey (n.) The stick used by the players. [Written also hookey and hawkey.]
Hookey (n.) See Hockey.
Hookey (n.) Same as hooky, n.
Hooky (n.) A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to be truant, to run away; -- used mostly of youths absent from school without a valid reason and without the knowledge of their parents. Also (figuratively and jocosely), to be absent from duty for frivolous reasons.
This talk about boys . . . playing ball, and "hooky," and marbles, was all moonshine. -- F. Hopkinson Smith.
Hooklet (n.) A little hook.
Hook-nosed (a.) Having a hooked or aquiline nose. -- Shak.
Hook-nosed (a.) Having an aquiline nose.
Hooky (a.) Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.
Hooky (n.) A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to be truant, to run away; -- used mostly of youths absent from school without a valid reason and without the knowledge of their parents. Also (figuratively and jocosely), to be absent from duty for frivolous reasons.
This talk about boys . . . playing ball, and "hooky," and marbles, was all moonshine. -- F. Hopkinson Smith.
Hooky (n.) Failure to attend (especially school) [syn: truancy, hooky].
Hool (a.) Whole. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Hoolock (n.) (Zool.) A small black gibbon ({Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam.
Hoom (n.) Home. -- Chaucer.
Hoonoomaun (n.) (Zool.) An Indian monkey. See Entellus. [Written also hoonuman.]
Compare: Entellus
Entellus (n.) (Zo["o]l.) An East Indian long-tailed bearded monkey ({Semnopithecus entellus) regarded as sacred by the natives. It is remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. Called also hoonoomaun and hungoor.
Hoop (n.) A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.
Hoop (n.) A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
Hoop (n.) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale. -- Pope.
Hoop (n.) A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops. [Obs.]
Hoop (n.) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks. [Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Bulge hoop, Chine hoop, Quarter hoop, The hoop nearest the middle of a cask, that nearest the end, and the intermediate hoop between these two, respectively.
Flat hoop, A wooden hoop dressed flat on both sides.
Half-round hoop, A wooden hoop left rounding and undressed on the outside.
Hoop iron, Iron in thin narrow strips, used for making hoops.
Hoop lock, The fastening for uniting the ends of wooden hoops by notching and interlocking them.
Hoop skirt, A framework of hoops for expanding the skirts of a woman's dress; -- called also hoop petticoat.
Hoop snake (Zool.), A harmless snake of the Southern United States ({Abaster erythrogrammus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it curves itself into a hoop, taking its tail into its mouth, and rolls along with great velocity.
Hoop tree (Bot.), A small West Indian tree ({Melia sempervirens), of the Mahogany family.
Hoopoe, Hoopoo, (n.) (Zool.) Upupa+({Upupa+epops">A European bird of the genus Upupa ({Upupa epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure, and a slender down-curving bill. Called also hoop, whoop.
The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.
Hooped (imp. & p. p.) of Hoop.
Hooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoop.
Hoop (v. t.) To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
Hoop (v. t.) To clasp; to encircle; to surround. -- Shak.
Hoop (v. i.) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. [Usually written whoop.]
Hoop (v. i.) To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.
Hooping cough. (Med.) See Whooping cough.
Hoop (v. t.) To drive or follow with a shout. "To be hooped out of Rome." -- Shak.
Hoop (v. t.) To call by a shout or peculiar cry.
Hoop (n.) A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
Hoop (n.) (Zool.) The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.
Hoop (n.) A light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt.
Hoop (n.) A rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling; "there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse" [syn: hoop, ring].
Hoop (n.) A small arch used as croquet equipment [syn: wicket, hoop].
Hoop (n.) Horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball [syn: basket, basketball hoop, hoop].
Hoop (v.) Bind or fasten with a hoop; "hoop vats".
Hooper (n.) One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.
Hooper (n.) (Zool.) The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk. Hoopoe
Hooper, NE -- U.S. city in Nebraska
Population (2000): 827
Housing Units (2000): 372
Land area (2000): 0.635076 sq. miles (1.644838 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.635076 sq. miles (1.644838 sq. km)
FIPS code: 23025
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.611082 N, 96.547238 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68031
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Hooper, NE
Hooper
Hooper, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
Population (2000): 123
Housing Units (2000): 57
Land area (2000): 0.249435 sq. miles (0.646033 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.249435 sq. miles (0.646033 sq. km)
FIPS code: 37380
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 37.745819 N, 105.876817 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 81136
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Hooper, CO
Hooper
Hooper, UT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Utah
Population (2000): 3926
Housing Units (2000): 1177
Land area (2000): 11.540042 sq. miles (29.888571 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.172170 sq. miles (0.445917 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.712212 sq. miles (30.334488 sq. km)
FIPS code: 36400
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 41.167110 N, 112.117852 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 84315
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Hooper, UT
Hooper
Hoopoe (n.) Alt. of Hoopoo.
Hoopoo (n.) (Zool.) A European bird of the genus Upupa (U. epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.
Hoopoe (n.) Any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill [syn: hoopoe, hoopoo].
Hoosier (n.) A nickname given to
an inhabitant of the State of
Hoosier (n.) A native or resident of Indiana [syn: Indianan, Hoosier].
Hooted (imp. & p. p.) of Hoot.
Hooting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoot.
Hoot (v. i.) To cry out or shout in contempt.
Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more. -- Dryden.
Hoot (v. i.) To make the peculiar cry of an owl.
The clamorous owl that nightly hoots. -- Shak.
Hoot (v. t.) To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
Partridge and his clan may hoot me for a cheat. -- Swift.
Hoot (n.) A derisive cry or shout. -- Glanvill.
Hoot (n.) The cry of an owl.
Hoot (n.) A very funny event, person, or experience; as, watching Jack try to catch that greased pig was a hoot.
Hoot owl (Zool.), The barred owl ({Syrnium nebulosum"> Hoot owl (Zool.), the barred owl ({Syrnium nebulosum). See Barred owl. not give a hoot not care at all.
Hoot (n.) A loud raucous cry (as of an owl).
Hoot (n.) A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt [syn: boo, hoot, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry, razzing, razz, snort, bird].
Hoot (n.) Something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam].
Hoot (v.) To utter a loud clamorous shout; "the toughs and blades of the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice, and dance".
Hoot (v.) Utter the characteristic sound of owls.
Hoove (n.) A disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating. Hooven
Hooven (a.) Alt. of Hoven
Hoven (a.) Affected with hoove; as, hooven, or hoven, cattle.
Hopped (imp. & p. p.) of Hop.
Hopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hop.
Hop (v. i.) To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.
[Birds] hopping from spray to spray. -- Dryden.
Hop (v. i.) To walk lame; to limp; to halt. -- Dryden.
Hop (v. i.) To dance. -- Smollett.
Hop (n.) A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.
Hop (n.) A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [Colloq.]
Hop, skip and jump, Hop, step and a jump or Hop, step and jump.
Hop (n.) A game or athletic sport in which the participants cover as much ground as possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession.
Hop (n.) A short distance. -- Addison.
Hop (n.) (Bot.) A climbing plant ({Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).
Hop (n.) The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.
Hop (n.) The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip.
Hop back. (Brewing) See under 1st Back.
Hop clover (Bot.), A species of yellow clover having heads like hops in miniature ({Trifolium agrarium, and Trifolium procumbens).
Hop flea (Zool.), A small flea beetle ({Haltica concinna"> Hop flea (Zool.), a small flea beetle ({Haltica concinna), very injurious to hops.
Hop fly (Zool.), An aphid ({Phorodon+humuli"> Hop fly (Zool.), an aphid ({Phorodon humuli), very
injurious to hop vines.
Hop froth fly (Zool.), An hemipterous insect ({Aphrophora interrupta), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines.
Hop hornbeam (Bot.), An American tree of the genus Ostrya ({Ostrya Virginica) the American ironwood; also, a European species ({Ostrya vulgaris).
Hop moth (Zool.), A moth ({Hypena+humuli"> Hop moth (Zool.), a moth ({Hypena humuli), which in the
larval state is very injurious to hop vines.
Hop picker, One who picks hops.
Hop pole, A pole used to support hop vines.
Hop tree (Bot.), A small American tree ({Ptelia trifoliata), having broad, flattened fruit in large clusters, sometimes used as a substitute for hops.
Hop vine (Bot.), The climbing vine or stalk of the hop.
Hop (v. t.) To impregnate with hops. -- Mortimer.
Hop (v. i.) To gather hops.
Usage: [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.] Hopbine
Hip (n.) (Bot.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose ({Rosa canina); called also rose hip. [Written also hop, hep.]
Hip tree (Bot.), The dog-rose.
Hop (n.) The act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot).
Hop (n.) Twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer [syn: hop, hops].
Hop (n.) An informal dance where popular music is played [syn: hop, record hop].
Hop (v.) Jump lightly [syn: hop, skip, hop-skip].
Hop (v.) Move quickly from one place to another.
Hop (v.) Travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.; "She hopped a train to Chicago"; "He hopped rides all over the country".
Hop (v.) Traverse as if by a short airplane trip; "Hop the Pacific Ocean".
Hop (v.) Jump across; "He hopped the bush".
Hop (v.) Make a jump forward or upward.
HOP, () Homecast Open Protocol (WLAN, Alation Systems).
Hop (n.) [common] One file transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network. On such networks (including the old UUCP network and and FidoNet), an important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest path between them, which can be more significant than their geographical separation. See bang path.
Hop (v.) [rare] To log in to a remote machine, esp. via rlogin or telnet. ?
I'll hop over to foovax to FTP that.?
Hop, () One point-to-point transmission in a series required to get a message from point A to point B on a store and forward network. On such networks (including UUCPNET and FidoNet), an important inter-machine metric is the hop count of the shortest path between them. This can be more significant than their geographical separation.
Each exclamation mark in a bang path represents one hop.
Hop, () One direct host-to-host connection forming part of the route between two hosts in a routed network such as the Internet. Some protocols place an upper limit on the hop count in order to detect routing loops.
Hop, () To log in to a remote computer, especially via rlogin or telnet. "I'll hop over to foovax to FTP that."
[{Jargon File] (1997-06-25)
Hopbine (n.) Alt. of Hopbind
Hopbind (n.) The climbing stem of the hop. --Blackstone.
Hope (n.) A sloping plain between mountain ridges. [Obs.]
Hope (n.) A small bay; an inlet; a haven. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Hope (n.) 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. -- J ob vii. 13.
He wished, but not with hope. -- Milton.
New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven. -- Keble.
Hope (n.) 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.
Hope (n.) That which is hoped for; an object of hope.
Lavina is thine elder brother's hope. -- Shak.
Hoped (imp. & p. p.) of Hope.
Hoping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hope.
Hope (v. i.) 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.
Hope (v. i.) 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 (v. t.) 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.
Hope (v. t.) 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.
Hope (n.) A specific instance of feeling hopeful; "it revived their hope of winning the pennant".
Hope (n.) The general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled; "in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope" [ant: despair].
Hope (n.) Grounds for feeling hopeful about the future; "there is little or no promise that he will recover" [syn: promise, hope].
Hope (n.) Someone (or something) on which expectations are centered; "he was their best hope for a victory".
Hope (n.) United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003) [syn: Hope, Bob Hope, Leslie Townes Hope].
Hope (n.) One of the three Christian virtues.
Hope (v.) Expect and wish; "I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise" [syn: hope, trust, desire].
Hope (v.) Be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes; "I am still hoping that all will turn out well" [ant: despair].
Hope (v.) Intend with some possibility of fulfilment; "I hope to have finished this work by tomorrow evening" [syn: hope, go for].
Hope, () 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. (1992-11-27)
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.
HOPE, (n.) Desire and expectation rolled into one.
Delicious Hope! when naught to man it left -- Of fortune destitute, of friends bereft; When even his dog deserts him, and his goat With tranquil disaffection chews his coat While yet it hangs upon his back; then thou, The star far-flaming on thine angel brow, Descendest, radiant, from the skies to hint The promise of a clerkship in the Mint. Fogarty Weffing
Hope, AK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alaska
Population (2000): 137
Housing Units (2000): 175
Land area (2000): 51.703701 sq. miles (133.911964 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.081422 sq. miles (0.210883 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 51.785123 sq. miles (134.122847 sq. km)
FIPS code: 33580
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 60.919433 N, 149.642044 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Hope, AR -- U.S. city in Arkansas
Population (2000): 10616
Housing Units (2000): 4301
Land area (2000): 9.996867 sq. miles (25.891766 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.058265 sq. miles (0.150905 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 10.055132 sq. miles (26.042671 sq. km)
FIPS
code: 33190
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 33.667779 N, 93.589908 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Hope, NM -- U.S. village in New Mexico
Population (2000): 107
Housing Units (2000): 58
Land area (2000): 1.159862 sq. miles (3.004029 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total
area (2000): 1.159862 sq. miles (3.004029 sq. km)
FIPS code: 33290
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 32.811916 N, 104.733565 W
ZIP
Codes (1990): 88250
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Headwords:
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Hope, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 303
Housing Units (2000): 155
Land area (2000): 0.617164 sq. miles (1.598447 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.617164 sq. miles (1.598447 sq. km)
FIPS code: 38860
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 47.322761 N, 97.720760 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Hope, ID -- U.S. city in Idaho
Population (2000): 79
Housing Units (2000): 57
Land area (2000): 0.401105 sq. miles (1.038858 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.014263 sq. miles (0.036941 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.415368 sq. miles (1.075799 sq. km)
FIPS code: 38440
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 48.248728 N, 116.309214 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 83836
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Headwords:
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Hope, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 2140
Housing Units (2000): 849
Land area (2000): 0.954381 sq. miles (2.471836 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.954381 sq. miles (2.471836 sq. km)
FIPS code: 34744
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.299971 N, 85.766801 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 47246
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Headwords:
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Hope, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 372
Housing Units (2000): 185
Land area (2000): 0.452661 sq. miles (1.172387 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.452661 sq. miles (1.172387 sq. km)
FIPS code: 33075
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 38.689536 N, 97.076815 W
ZIP
Codes (1990): 67451
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Headwords:
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Hope Charlotte Hicks (n.) 荷蒲・希克斯，白宮聯絡室主任 (born October 21, 1988) is an American public relations consultant and former model who is the outgoing White House Communications Director for President Donald Trump. [1] From January to September 2017, she served as White House Director of Strategic Communications, a role created for her. She previously served as the press secretary and early communications director for Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, as well as the national press secretary for his presidential transition team, [2] [3] and before that was an employee of The Trump Organization. She is Trump's longest-serving political aide. [4] [5]
On February 27, 2018 Hicks admitted in congressional testimony that she had told lies on behalf of Trump. [6] [7] [8] [9] On February 28, 2018, Hicks announced her intention to resign as White House Communications Director. [10] [11]
Hopeful (a.) 抱有希望的；充滿希望的 [（+of）] [+that]；有希望的；有前途的 Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant.
Men of their own natural inclination hopeful and strongly conceited. -- Hooker.
Hopeful (a.) Having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect. "Hopeful scholars." -- Addison. -- Hope"ful*ly, adv. -- Hope"ful*ness, n.
Hopeful (a.) Having or manifesting hope; "a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of attacking the problem" [ant: hopeless].
Hopeful (a.) Full or promise; "had a bright future in publishing"; "the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career"; "a hopeful new singer on Broadway" [syn: bright, hopeful, promising].
Hopeful (n.) [C] 有希望成功的人；希望獲得成功的人 An ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes" [syn: aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee].
Hopeite (n.) (Min.) 磷鋅礦 A hydrous phosphate of zinc in transparent prismatic crystals.
Hopeless (a.) 絕望的，不抱希望的，無望的，沒有辦法的， 【口】無能的，不行的 Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.
I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. -- Shak.
Hopeless (a.) Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause.
The hopelessword of "never to return" Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life. -- Shak.
Hopeless (a.) Unhoped for; despaired of. [Obs.] -- Marston. -- Hope"less*ly, adv. -- Hope"less*ness, n.
Hopeless (a.) Without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down" [ant: hopeful].
Hopeless (a.) Of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless at mathematics".
Hopeless (a.) Certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless".
Hopeless (a.) (Informal to emphasize how bad it is) Beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic."
Hoper (n.) One who hopes. -- Swift.
Hoper (n.) A person who hopes; "only an avid hoper could expect the team to win now".
Hopingly (adv.) In a hopeful manner. -- Hammond.
Hoplite (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) A heavy-armed infantry soldier. -- Milford. Hop-o'-my-thumb
Hop-o'-my-thumb (n.) Alt. of Hop-thumb
Hop-thumb (n.) A very diminutive person. [Colloq.] -- liwell.
Hopped (p. a.) Impregnated with hops.
Compare: Grasshopper
Grasshopper (n.) (Zool.) Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acridid[ae] and Locustid[ae], having large hind legs adapted for leaping, and chewing mouth parts. The species and genera are very numerous and some are very destructive to crops. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust ({Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged ({Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related species, but their ravages are less important.
They are closely related to the migratory locusts of the Old World. See Locust.
Note: The meadow or green grasshoppers belong to the Locustid[ae]. They have long antenn[ae], large ovipositors, and stridulating organs at the base of the wings in the male. The European great green grasshopper ({Locusta viridissima) belongs to this family. The common American green species mostly belong to Xiphidium, Orchelimum, and Conocephalus.
Grasshopper (n.) In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper. -- Grove.
Grasshopper (n.) (Mil.) An antipersonnel mine that jumps from the ground to body height when activated, and explodes, hurling metal fragments over a wide area.
Grasshopper (n.) A mixed alcoholic beverage containing cr[`e]me de menthe, light cream, and sometimes cr[`e]me de cacao. The name comes from its light green color.
Grasshopper engine, A steam engine having a working beam with its fulcrum at one end, the steam cylinder at the other end, and the connecting rod at an intermediate point.
Grasshopper lobster (Zool.) A young lobster. [Local, U. S.]
Grasshopper warbler (Zool.), Cricket bird.
Hopper (n.) One who, or that which, hops.
Hopper (n.) A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.
Hopper (n.) (Mus.) See Grasshopper, 2.
Hopper (n.) pl. A game. See Hopscotch. -- Johnson.
Hopper (n.) (Zool.) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.
Hopper (n.) (Zool.) The larva of a cheese fly.
Hopper (n.) (Naut.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow.
Bell and hopper (Metal.), The apparatus at the top of a blast furnace, through which the charge is introduced, while the gases are retained.
Hopper boy, A rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the floor, through which it falls.
Hopper closet, A water-closet, without a movable pan, in which the receptacle is a funnel standing on a draintrap.
Hopper cock, A faucet or valve for flushing the hopper of a water-closet.
Hopper (n.) Funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below.
Hopper (n.) Someone who hops; "at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children".
Hopper (n.) A machine used for picking hops [syn: hop-picker, hopper].
Hopper (n.) Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping [syn: grasshopper, hopper].
Hopper (n.) (Baseball) A hit that travels along the ground [syn: grounder, ground ball, groundball, hopper].
Hopperings (n.) (Gold Washing) Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.
Hoppestere (a.) An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as "dancing (on the wave)"; by others as "opposing," "warlike." -- T. R. Lounsbury.
Hoppet (n.) A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore. [Prov. Eng.]