Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A length of line, thread, ribbon, or other thin material that is curved or doubled over making an opening.
- noun The opening formed by such a doubled line.
- noun Something having a shape, order, or path of motion that is circular or curved over on itself.
- noun Electricity A closed circuit.
- noun Computers A sequence of instructions that repeats either a specified number of times or until a particular condition is met.
- noun A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
- noun A flight maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane with the lateral axis of the aircraft remaining horizontal.
- noun A segment of film or magnetic tape whose ends are joined, making a strip that can be continuously replayed.
- intransitive verb To form into a loop.
- intransitive verb To fasten, join, or encircle with loops or a loop.
- intransitive verb To fly (an aircraft) in a loop.
- intransitive verb To move in a loop or an arc.
- intransitive verb Electricity To join (conductors) so as to complete a circuit.
- intransitive verb To add or substitute (words) in a film by altering the soundtrack.
- intransitive verb To form a loop.
- intransitive verb To move in a loop.
- intransitive verb To make a loop in an aircraft.
- idiom (in the loop) Part of a group that is kept up-to-date with information about something.
- idiom Slang (knock/throw) To surprise tremendously; astonish.
- idiom (out of the loop) Not part of a group that is kept up-to-date with information about something.
- noun A loophole through which small arms may be fired.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form into a loop or loops: as, to
loop a cord. - To fasten or secure with a loop or loops: as, to
loop up a curtain. - To furnish with a loop or loops: as, to
loop a cloak. - To form a loop.
- To move, as the larvæ of certain moths, by forming loops.
- noun A folding or doubling of a string, lace, cord, chain, etc., or a short piece doubled and secured to something at each end.
- noun Something resembling a loop, as the bend of a river; a link; a crook.
- noun Specifically—
- noun In crochet, knitting, and similar kinds of fancy work, same as
stitch . - noun A hinge of a door.
- noun In railroad and telegraph systems, a branch line leaving the main line at any point and joining it again at some other point; a looping line, as a branch wire carried over to a side station and back.
- noun In the theory of Riemann's surfaces, a line running from any point to a branchpoint, then around that branch-point in an infinitesimal circle, and back to the original point by the same path.
- noun A part of a curve limited by a crunode.
- noun The ear of a vessel, as a stoneware jar, when approximately of the form of a half-ring projecting from the side or lip.
- noun In gunnery, a small fron ring in the barrel of a gun.
- noun The small ring at the tip of a fishing-rod through which the line passes.
- noun In anatomy, a looped vessel or fiber; especially, a nerve-loop.
- noun In brachiopods, the folding of the brachial appendages.
- noun In acoustics, the part of a vibrating musical string (see
sonometer ), or, as in an organ-pipe, of a column of air, where the amplitude of vibration is at its maximum. Seenode . - noun In mech., a slotted bar or ring at the side of any piece of machinery, designed to limit or control the movement of another part.
- noun A knot or bur, often of great size, occurring on walnut, maple, oak, and some other trees.
- noun A small magnifying-glass.
- noun A narrow window; any small, narrow aperture; specifically, in medieval fortification, a small aperture for observing the enemy, for the discharge of arrows or ordnance, or to admit light; a loophole.
- noun A gap in the paling of a park, made for the convenience of the deer.
- noun A removable fence-panel made of parallel wooden bars, generally united by transverse braces or crosspieces, used as a substitute for an ordinary fence-gate.
- noun See
loupe .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The law concerning the generation of electromotive force and current in a conductor that is cutting through lines of magnetic force, may be stated in another way, when the conductor is bent into the form of a loop, as in the case under consideration: Thus, _if the number of lines of force which pass through a conducting loop be varied, electromotive forces will be generated in the loop_.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910
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Code: opciones () loop = true while $loop do echo "Menu Opciones" echo "= = = = = = = = = = = = = = \n\n" echo "1.
LinuxQuestions.org kopper27 2010
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Some of the properties of these atoms of space can best be described mathematically using an extended, one-dimensional loop, hence the term loop quantum gravity.
How It Brian Clegg 2010
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Armed with the term loop mail, I found several citations on the net, including a how-to-break-the-loop one here.
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Bowlines are easier to tie when the loop is around something, finger, pole, tree limb or cleat
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Bowlines are easier to tie when the loop is around something, finger, pole, tree limb or cleat
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Once around the outside, which is what I call the loop, is a little more than a mile.
CSS: Shaping the New You Jack Canfield 2010
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Once around the outside, which is what I call the loop, is a little more than a mile.
CSS: Shaping the New You Jack Canfield 2010
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The location of the storm right now is just starting to pull up into this area, on the northeast side of what we call the loop current.
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And the areas in red indicate what we call the loop current, where we have very warm, very deep water, the water temperature of 80 degrees that can go as far deep as 300 feet.
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The movie was done, so it meant that LeAnn had to loop—watching the footage and, effectively, lip-synching in reverse.
"Do We Serve Water in This Bar?" An Oral History of ‘Coyote Ugly’ Kate Lloyd 2020
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Suddenly, so-called superstar cities—such as New York, Boston, and Los Angeles, which boomed throughout the 2010s—were facing what experts called an “urban doom loop.” The more people moved away, the worse things would get; the worse things got, the more people would move away; and so on, in an endless spiral that would do to superstar cities what the decline of the auto industry did to Detroit.
Whatever Happened to the Urban Doom Loop? Rogé Karma 2024
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What is a doom loop? You might be familiar with the term in another context: urban doom loops. That has made headlines because experts are concerned some of America’s largest cities risk falling into an economic doom loop, which is a negative spiral that results from increasing remote work that leads to urban businesses to close and lose tax revenue. It’s what we saw in San Francisco. But for the most part, a doom loop is described as a scenario in which one negative thought leads to the next, and the next, in a continuous loop. One negative event triggers another, which can compound the first or trigger the next. Andrew Shatte, chief knowledge officer, and co-founder of stress management app meQuilibrium, describes it as “vicious cycles“ that focus on the negative rather than the positive. “People are prone to negative thinking and doom loops as part of their survival strategy,” said Shatte, “Most of us have had times when we woke up at 3 a.m., ruminating over all the terrible things that could come our way. Very few of us have thoughts of unicorns and rainbows at that time of night.”
WTF is a doom loop and why is it harmful in the workplace? Cloey Callahan 2023
bilby commented on the word loop
Nice Flickr panel.
April 26, 2011