meaning of hope

1. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
2. A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
3. 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.
4. One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good.
5. That which is hoped for; an object of hope.
6. 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.
7. To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; -- usually followed by in.
8. 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.
9. To expect; to fear.
10. 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. 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].
11. one of the three Christian virtues

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