What's the difference between hope and nope?

Hope


Definition:

  • (n.) A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
  • (n.) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
  • (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.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good.
  • (n.) That which is hoped for; an object of 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.
  • (v. i.) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; -- usually followed by in.
  • (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.
  • (v. t.) To expect; to fear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We will never give up our hope for peace,” added Netanyahu.
  • (2) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
  • (3) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (4) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  • (5) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (6) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
  • (7) I’m hopeful but I just can’t get over all my experiences in the past.
  • (8) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
  • (9) HDAra-C in combination with anthracyclines is now considered to be a treatment which may afford some hope of a cure in a certain percentage of cases of adult acute non-lymphocytic leukemia.
  • (10) Many hope this week's photocalls with the two men will be a recruiting aid and provide a desperately needed bounce in the polls.
  • (11) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
  • (12) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
  • (13) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
  • (14) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
  • (15) "For a better world, not only for the Iranian people but for the next generation across the globe, I earnestly hope that President Rouhani will receive a warm welcome and meaningful responses during his visit to the UN."
  • (16) "I hope that he has the sleepless nights I have had for the past five weeks because my son sustained horrific injuries."
  • (17) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.
  • (18) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
  • (19) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
  • (20) A case is presented of deliberate chewing of the flowers of henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the hope of producing euphoria, and an account is given of the poisoning so produced.

Nope


Definition:

  • (n.) A bullfinch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Oh”, said many, “You must doing it for charity.” Nope.
  • (2) Nope, he let's it go and now Kelly has walked the bases loaded with one out for the Wild Horse himself, Yasiel Puig.
  • (3) Nope, he grounds out to you know where, and even though Carpenter bobbles it, he throws over to get the former AL MVP just in time.
  • (4) "Nope, nope, nope," he said this week, brushing off talk of a reunion.
  • (5) 49ers 6-0 Panthers, 15:00, 2nd quarter The Panthers are 10 and 13 on 4th down conversions... but nope, the San Francisco defense stuffs Newton!
  • (6) 3.38am BST Heat 92-93 Spurs, 1:46 remaining in the 4th quarter Nope, it stays San Antonio ball as called, but they have less than a second.
  • (7) #Nope June 19, 2016 On Wednesday a Facebook spokesman confirmed to the Guardian that it was not using location data, with the same statement as supplied to Fusion.
  • (8) Nope, says Cole, and neither do courts that grant wiretap warrants.
  • (9) Updated at 4.28am BST 4.26am BST Spurs 93-71 Heat, 5:30 remaining, 4th quarter Nope.
  • (10) 4.24am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, top of 8th Nope - that's a fail.
  • (11) #fundamentals January 5, 2014 1.57am GMT End of first quarter: Saints 0-0 Eagles Nope.
  • (12) Having persuaded numerous over-achieving women to keep time logs of their days, from dawn gym workouts (nope, me neither) to solving work crises at midnight, she observes that actually “their lives didn’t look that bad”.
  • (13) Nope, they offered this rather stark evaluation: "It was determined that on the whole these provisions indicate an interest in teaching at a research university and not at a college, like ours, that is both teaching and student centered."
  • (14) 1.06am BST Cardinals 9 - Pirates 1, Final Nope, just a single, his second of the night - he has half of Pittsburgh's four knocks tonight.
  • (15) At the last minute Robin popped in and the club owners decided, nope, we’re putting Robin on.
  • (16) In fact – and the letters make no mention of this – the child benefit tax charge is based on something called your "adjusted net income" (nope, I'd never heard of it either).
  • (17) Nope, a harmless pop out center field for the first out.
  • (18) That the Republicans think Rubio – and Cruz, to a lesser extent – is their Great Brown Hope instead of a Great Brown Nope despite all his negatives with Latinos ( he even introduced Mitt Romney during the 2012 Republican convention ) shows, once again, how much work the Reeps need to do to attract non-Cuban Latinos to their party.
  • (19) I remember watching a video of her eloquent speech at the G8 Summit in London in April – as she spoke in front of the world's leading foreign ministers, I stared at what I knew were tissue expanders and thought: "Nope, no one can tell."
  • (20) 6.49pm BST FULL TIME: Argentina 0-0 Switzerland Nope!

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