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loop

/lup/

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What does loop mean?

noun

  1. A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
  2. The opening so formed.
  3. A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
More meanings (33)

noun

  1. A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
  2. A ring road or beltway.
  3. An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
  4. A complete circuit for an electric current.
  5. A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
  6. An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
  7. A path that starts and ends at the same point.
  8. A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
  9. A place at a terminus where trains or trams can turn round and go back the other way without having to reverse; a balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop.
  10. A passing loop.
  11. A quasigroup with an identity element.
  12. A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
  13. An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
  14. A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
  15. Alternative form of loup (“mass of iron”).
  16. A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
  17. The curved path of the ball bowled by a spin bowler.
  18. Acronym of loss of offsite power.
  19. (dated) A sports league

verb

  1. To form something into a loop.
  2. To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
  3. To fly an aircraft in a loop.
  4. To move something in a loop.
  5. To play something (such as a song or video) in a loop.
  6. To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
  7. To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
  8. To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
  9. To form a loop.
  10. To move in a loop.
  11. To place in a loop.
  12. To have the teacher progress through multiple school years with the same students.

proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. (informal) The City Loop.
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IPA pronunciation

/lup/

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Just above this loop a small hole through the shell is usually made, and from this a small skein of beads depends.
Charles Hose; William McDougallThe Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic RelationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3307
The large loop allows the limb to expand, and the stiff wire prevents the misplacing of the label by winds and workmen.
L. H. (Liberty Hyde) BaileyManual of Gardening (Second Edition) A Practical Guide to the Making of Home Grounds and the Growing of Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables for Home UseProject Gutenberg ebook #9550
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If he could fix on the knob of its lid a loop made of thin shreds of narrow linen straps it would hold.
Leo, graf TolstoyThe forged coupon, and other storiesProject Gutenberg ebook #243
Some paddies—a little white bird not unlike a pigeon—were snared with a loop of string, and fried, with one water-sodden biscuit, for lunch.
Ernest Henry, Sir ShackletonSouth: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917Project Gutenberg ebook #5199
The worms may be snared by inserting a stiff horse hair that has been twisted and forms a loop into the trachea.
Robert Alexander CraigCommon Diseases of Farm AnimalsProject Gutenberg ebook #8502