Hoping vs. Hopping: What's the Difference?
Hoping and Hopping Definitions
Hoping
To wish for a particular event that one considers possible
We are hoping for more financial support.
Hopping
To move with light bounding skips or leaps.
Hoping
(Archaic) To have confidence; trust.
Hopping
(Informal) To move quickly or be busily active
The shipping department is hopping this week.
Hoping
To desire and consider possible
I hope that you will join us for dinner. We hope to buy a house in the spring.
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Hopping
To jump on one foot or with both feet at the same time.
Hoping
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.
Hopping
To make a quick trip, especially in an airplane.
Hoping
An instance of such longing or desire
Her hopes of becoming a doctor have not changed.
Hopping
To travel or move often from place to place. Often used in combination
Party-hop.
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Hoping
A source of or reason for such longing or desire
Good pitching is the team's only hope for victory.
Hopping
To move over by hopping
Hop a ditch two feet wide.
Hoping
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
(Informal) To get on (a train) surreptitiously in order to ride without paying a fare
Hop a freight train.
Hoping
(Archaic) Trust; confidence.
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Hopping
To flavor with hops.
Hoping
Present participle of hope
I'm hoping the weather will be sunny tomorrow.
Hopping
A light springy jump or leap, especially on one foot or with both feet at the same time.
Hoping
Transport-hiking, train-hiking
Hopping
A rebound
The ball took a bad hop.
Hoping
(rare) Filled with or inspiring hope.
A hoping situation is not yet desolate.
Hopping
(Informal) A dance or dance party.
Hopping
A short distance.
Hopping
A short trip, especially by air.
Hopping
A free ride; a lift.
Hopping
A twining vine (Humulus lupulus) having lobed leaves and green female flowers arranged in conelike spikes.
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.
Hopping
(Slang) Opium.
Hopping
(British) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
Hopping
The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent
Hopping
The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
Hopping
A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.
Hopping
Of a location, crowded with people.
Hopping
The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
Hopping
A gathering of hops.
