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Hove vs Hope - What's the difference?

hove | hope |

As verbs the difference between hove and hope

is that hove is to remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover while hope is to want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.

As a noun hope is

the belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.

As a proper noun Hope is

{{given name|female|from=English}} from the virtue, like Faith and Charity first used by Puritans.

hove

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at (l).

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

Verb

(hov)
  • To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.7:
  • *:As shee arrived on the roring shore, / In minde to leape into the mighty maine, / A little bote lay hoving her before.
  • To wait, linger.
  • *:
    • Alle these xv knyghtes were knyghtes of the table round / Soo these with moo other came in to gyders / and bete on bak the kynge of Northumberland and the kynge of Northwalys / whan sir launcelot sawe this as he houed in a lytil leued woode / thenne he sayd vnto syre lauayn / see yonder is a company of good knyghtes
  • To move (on) or (by).
  • To remain; delay.
  • To remain stationary (usually on horseback).

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hoven, alteration (due to hove, hoven, past tense and past participle of ). More at (l).

    Verb

    (hov)
  • (transitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To raise; lift; hold up.
  • (intransitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To rise.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ii:
    • Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe , / And with that suddein horror could no member moue.

    Etymology 3

    Inflected forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nautical) (heave)
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) (heave)
  • * 1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII:
    • Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him.
    Synonyms
    * heaved English irregular simple past forms

    hope

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) hope, from (etyl) .

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out.}}
  • (countable) The actual thing wished for.
  • (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
  • (Christianity) The virtuous desire for future good.
  • * The Holy Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:13
    • But now abideth faith, hope , love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
    Derived terms
    * Cape of Good Hope * forlorn hope * great white hope * have one's hope dashed * hope against hope * hope chest * hopeful * hopeless * hoper * hope springs eternal * no-hoper * out of hope * overhope * unhope * wanhope

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hopen, from (etyl) hopian.

    Verb

    (hop)
  • To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
  • * , chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
  • To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
  • (obsolete) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in .
  • * Bible, Psalms cxix. 81
    • I hope in thy word.
  • * Bible, Psalms xlii. 11
    • Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.
    Usage notes
    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See
    Derived terms
    * hoped for
    See also
    * aspire * desire * expect * look forward * want

    Etymology 3

    Compare Icelandic word for a small bay or inlet.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
  • (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
    • (Jamieson)
    (Webster 1913)

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