loop
/luːp/
loop noun: a length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening. Also the alternative form of loup.
Noun (1)
loop (plural loops)
- A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
- The opening so formed.
- A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
- Arches, loops, and whorls are patterns found in fingerprints.
- A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- feedback loop
- time loop
- Synonyms:
- cycle
- A ring road or beltway.
- An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
- He can hang out in the back room of the local adult bookstore […] and hope for a stand-up blow-job through the glory hole in the partition of the two booths that show gay loops.1979 December 8, anonymous author, “The Small Town”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 20, page 5
- A complete circuit for an electric current.
- A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
- An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
- A path that starts and ends at the same point.
- A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
- 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.
- In 1908 the line was extended to a station called Wood Lane, which was built on a terminal track loop so that trains could turn round and go back the other way, [...]2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 119
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- A passing loop.
- Basingstoke-Exeter will test this. From Salisbury westwards, it's largely single-track since British Rail downgraded it in 1967. There's a ten-mile loop between Templecombe and Yeovil, as well as shorter loops at Chard, Axminster and Honiton.2025 February 5, Philip Haigh, “Where track and train integration will be put to the test”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 51
- A quasigroup with an identity element.
- A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
- An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
- A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
- And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence / The eye of Reason may pry in upon us.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
- A sports league
- Arellano formerly cavorted for the Galicias in the fast-paced National-American Soccer loop.1963 September 27, “Italias Vie In Bayonne On Sunday”, in The Jersey Journal, page 17
- The curved path of the ball bowled by a spin bowler.
Verb
loop (third-person singular simple present loops, present participle looping, simple past and past participle looped)
- To form something into a loop.
- To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
- To fly an aircraft in a loop.
- To move something in a loop.
- To play something (such as a song or video) in a loop.
- To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
- To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
- To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
- To form a loop.
- To move in a loop.
- The program loops until the user presses a key.
- The outstanding Tom Palmer won a line-out and then charged into the heart of the Welsh defence, scrum-half Ben Youngs moved the ball swiftly right and Cueto's looping pass saw Ashton benefit from a huge overlap to again run in untouched.2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC
- To place in a loop.
- It found that trains often looped on their journey emit 14% to 20% more NOx and particulates than non-stop services.2021 January 13, Richard Clinnick, “Longer freight trains boost efficiency and reduce carbon”, in Rail, page 10
- To have the teacher progress through multiple school years with the same students.
- Tolland Middle School in Connecticut where close to four hundred middle school students participated in looping, students from looped classroom structures scored much higher than students from prior years without the looped structure on standardized tests in mathematics and writing.2003, Lisa Lynn Snyder, An Investigation of Elementary Looping Practices and Outcomes in a Rural School District, page 54
Proper noun capitalized: Loop
Loop (plural Loops)
- A surname.
- The City Loop.
- Does this train go through the Loop?
Noun (2) capitalized: LOOP
LOOP
Also used as
loop is also the alternative form of loup.
loop meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
loop in Hindi
- length of thread, line or rope
- कुंडली kuṇḍlī
loop in Tamil
- லூப்
loop in Marathi
- लूप, लूप करण्यासाठी
loop in Urdu
- length of thread, line or rope
- کُنْڈَلی kunḍalī, کُنْڈْلی kunḍlī
More languagesFewer languages
- loop in Bengali
- লুপ, লুপটি, লুপটি করা
- loop in Telugu
- లూప్, లూప్ చేయడానికి, లూప్ చెయ్యడానికి
- loop in Malayalam
- ലൂപ്പ്, ലൂപ്, ലൂപ്പ് ചെയ്യാൻ
- loop in Kannada
- ಲೂಪ್, ಲೂಪ್ ಮಾಡಲು
- loop in Punjabi
- ਲੂਪ, ਲੂਪ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- loop in Gujarati
- લૂપ, લૂપ કરવા માટે
- loop in Odia
- ଲୁପ୍, ଲୁପ୍ କରନ୍ତୁ, ଲୁପ୍ କରିବା ପାଇଁ
- loop in Nepali
- लूप, लुप, लूप गर्न
- loop in Tagalog
- likaw
- loop in Arabic
- عُرْوَة ʕurwa, عُقْدَة ʕuqda
- loop in Indonesian
- gelung, simpal
- loop in Thai
- บ่วง bùuang
- loop in Vietnamese
- đường nhánh, thòng lọng
- loop in Myanmar
- ကွင်း kwang:
Examples of loop in a sentence
- The system froze because the buggy program got into an infinite loop and didn't yield.
- The pilot pulled up hard into a tight loop and browned out, losing sight of the target.
- The setter of this crossword has been known to throw us all for a loop occasionally.
Synonyms of loop
Forms of loop
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | loops |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | loops |
| present participle | looping |
| past participle | looped |
| past | looped |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Loops |
Origin of loop
From Middle English loupe (“noose, loop”), earlier lowp-knot (“loop-knot”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hlaup (“a run”), used in the sense of a "running knot", from hlaupa (“to leap”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to leap, run”). Compare Swedish löp-knut (“loop-knot”), Danish løb-knude (“a running knot”), Danish løb (“a course”). More at leap. The verb is derived from the noun.
Words formed from loop
- A-B loop
- adjustable loop
- afferent loop syndrome
- angler's loop
- artillery loop
- autoloop
- autoregulatory loop
- belt loop
- blind loop syndrome
- boot loop
- busy loop
- causal loop
- causal loop paradox
- closed loop
- closed time loop
- close the loop
- coloop
- compulsion loop
- core loop
- crossed loop sensor
- cryoloop
- death loop
- do loop
- doom loop
- do-while loop
- Dunville Loop
- earloop
- edge loop
- endoloop
- exoloop
- fisherman's loop
- foreach loop
- fruit loop
- ground loop
- gunloop
- harness loop
- hearing loop
- helix-loop-helix
- hemiloop
- Henle loop
- Henle's loop
- heptaloop
- hexaloop
- hyperloop
- hysteresis loop
- induction loop
- interloop
- intraloop
- keep someone in the loop
- Latham loop
- launch loop
- Lebanese loop
- Lippes loop
- local loop
- locker loop
- Lofstrom loop
- loop de loop
- loop-de-loop
- loop device
- loop disconnect dialing
Phrases with loop
- loop in
- loop up
- on loop
- for loop
- loop off
- the Loop
- toe loop
- loop hole
- loop jump
- loop line
- time loop
- event loop
66 more phrasesFewer phrases
- loop holes
- loop jumps
- loop lines
- loop pedal
- loop ratio
- small loop
- tight loop
- ulnar loop
- while loop
- inside loop
- loop pedals
- loop ratios
- Möbius loop
- Varley loop
- Wilson loop
- balloon loop
- endless loop
- hanging loop
- loop devices
- Moufang loop
- nephron loop
- outside loop
- passing loop
- penalty loop
- service loop
- strange loop
- crossing loop
- feedback loop
- infinite loop
- loop antennae
- loop antennas
- loop de loops
- loop diuretic
- loop of Henle
- platform loop
- loop diuretics
- loop invariant
- loops the loop
- reversing loop
- closed the loop
- closes the loop
- loop invariants
- looped the loop
- closing the loop
- looping the loop
- threw for a loop
- throw for a loop
- knocks for a loop
- phase-locked loop
- thrown for a loop
- throws for a loop
- knocked for a loop
- Murray loop bridge
- knocking for a loop
- Murray loop bridges
- throwing for a loop
- crossed loop sensors
- loop quantum gravity
- read-eval-print loop
- causal loop paradoxes
- loop transfer function
- stagnant loop syndrome
- loop transfer functions
- kept someone in the loop
- keeps someone in the loop
- keeping someone in the loop
Words that rhyme with loop
39 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cloop
- whoop
- coupe
- regroup
- roop
- saloop
- sloop
- snoop
- stoup
- alley oop
- boop
- gloop
- goop
- horse scoop
- jupe
- loupe
- roup
- troupe
- Tuesday Group
- astoop
- chat group
- croup
- dedupe
- drupe
- fisherman's soup
- FOUP
- French onion soup
- ginger group
- L'Anse-au-Loup
- locker loop
- matrix group
- ploop
- pupe
- shoop
- stewp
- stoep
- stupe
- voop
- zoop
Questions about loop
- What does loop mean?
- Loop means a length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
- What is loop in Hindi?
- Loop in Hindi is कुंडली (kuṇḍlī). See Loop meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is loop?
- Loop can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce loop?
- Loop is pronounced /luːp/.
- What is the plural of loop?
- The plural of loop is loops.
Words near loop in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: loop (page history and authors); Loop (page history and authors); LOOP (page history and authors); loop (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loop (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loop (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loop (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loop (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loop (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loop (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loop (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loop (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loop (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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