overloop

overloop noun: a loop that occurs above something. Also the obsolete form of orlop.

Noun

overloop (plural overloops)

A loop that occurs above something.
- I almost signed, and then luckily I noticed that my boss Abelardo's tall and horizontally compressed conquistador signature, with lots of overloops and proud flourishes, was located one petal over on the very same flower I had chosen.1992, Jeremy Lewis, The Chatto Book of Office Life, Or, Love Among the Filing Cabinets, page 336
- It was not until November 1978 that Levine seriously began pursuing the utilitarian application of his sculptures, when a friend, G. Duff Bailey, a bicycle buff and author of numerous articles about urban cycling, was at Levine's home and informed him that the sculptures would make excellent...2002, Graeme B. Dinwoodie, William O. Hennessey, Shira Perlmutter, International and Comparative Patent Law, page 200
An outer loop; A loop that contains an inner loop.
- Well , they certainly didn't know about loops yet, much less closed loops and overloops.1998, Dan Parkinson, The Whispers, page 133
- In contrast to the loop-based construction, the overloop-based algorithm (Algo.2) suppresses this problem completely.2011, Béatrice Bouchou-Markhoff, Pascal Caron, Jean-Marc Champarnaud ·, Implementation and Application of Automata, page 174

overloop (third-person singular simple present overloops, present participle overlooping, simple past and past participle overlooped)

To loop over.
- I sometimes form the fabric by passing the weft thread over alternate loops, as, for example, first, the thread a³ overloops in one row, and then that indicated by a⁴ overloops in the next row; this will produce a change in the figure from a square to a diamond in form, and this is done in one way...1871, English Patents of Inventions, Specifications: 1870, 2301 - 2330, page 9
- The torpedo consisted of a cylindrical copper case held in a scoop at the end of the spar and so overlooped by a line that it could be thrown out of the scoop when desired.1896, Frank Marion Bennett, Robert Weir, The Steam Navy of the United States, page 481
To loop too much.
- Lonely atrium mutants, for example, have no distinguishable ventricles, and overlooped embryos have abnormally positioned heart chambers.1997, The Journal of NIH Research, page 5
- He had absorbed too much stale water and overlooped a bit.2014, Thorne Smith, The Stray Lamb, page 183

overloop is also the obsolete form of orlop.

Matt unbuttoned the thin black strap which overlooped the base of the CB's fat black antenna, slid the radio from its holster and clicked a switch at its top.2012, Nicholas Grabowsky, The Everborn, page 180:
Follow green and purple lines – ride a 'curvy' serpentine (one which overloops and has no straight sections) between the poles.2017, Claire Lilley, 200+ School Exercises with Poles:

Noun
plural	overloops
Verb
third-person singular present	overloops
present participle	overlooping
past participle	overlooped
past	overlooped

What does overloop mean?: Overloop means a loop that occurs above something.
How do you use overloop in a sentence?: Matt unbuttoned the thin black strap which overlooped the base of the CB's fat black antenna, slid the radio from its holster and clicked a switch at its top.
What part of speech is overloop?: Overloop can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of overloop?: The plural of overloop is overloops.

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