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Loop

noun
1.
Fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines.  Synonyms: cringle, eyelet, grommet, grummet.
2.
Anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself).
3.
(computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated.  Synonym: iteration.
4.
An inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan).
5.
The basic pattern of the human fingerprint.
6.
A computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied.
7.
The topology of a network whose components are serially connected in such a way that the last component is connected to the first component.  Synonym: loop topology.
8.
An intrauterine device in the shape of a loop.
9.
A complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates.  Synonym: closed circuit.
10.
A flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane.  Synonym: loop-the-loop.
verb
(past & past part. looped; pres. part. looping)
1.
Move in loops.
2.
Make a loop in.  Synonym: intertwine.
3.
Fly loops, perform a loop.
4.
Wind around something in coils or loops.  Synonyms: coil, curl.
5.
Fasten or join with a loop.



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"Loop" Quotes from Famous Books



... the finer tendons from the deer's shank. These he chewed until soft, then twisted them tightly into a cord having a permanent loop at one end and a buckskin strand at the other. While wet the string was tied between two twigs and rubbed smooth with spittle. Its diameter was one-eighth of an inch, its length about forty-eight inches. When dry the loop was applied ...
— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope

... of Stirling rang With soldier-step and weapon-clang, While drums with rolling note foretell Relief to weary sentinel. Through narrow loop and casement barred, The sunbeams sought the Court of Guard, And, struggling with the smoky air, Deadened the torches' yellow glare. In comfortless alliance shone The lights through arch of blackened stone, And showed wild shapes in garb of war, Faces ...
— The Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott

... imagine, without having seen them, such refinements of immurement, such ingenuities of resistance. We passed along the battlements and chemins de ronde, ascended and de- scended towers, crawled under arches, peered out of loop-holes, lowered ourselves into dungeons, halted in all sorts of tight places, while the purpose of some- thing or other was described to us. It was very curious, very interesting; above all, it was very pic- torial, and involved perpetual ...
— A Little Tour in France • Henry James

... brink of the St. Lawrence, on or near the site of the market-place of the Lower Town of Quebec. The pencil of Champlain, always regardless of proportion and perspective, has preserved its semblance. A strong wooden wall, surmounted by a gallery loop-holed for musketry, enclosed three buildings, containing quarters for himself and his men, together with a court-yard, from one side of which rose a tall dove-cot, like a belfry. A moat surrounded the whole, and two or three small cannon ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine

... the books she now took a small box of light-coloured wood, with a transferred engraving on the cover. With a sigh—for the sight of it brought up old memories—Miss Bennett lifted the cover by its loop of ribbon, took out a package of old letters, and went downstairs with the box, taking also a few bits of bright silk from ...
— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various


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