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loop / loōp/ • n. 1. a shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself. ∎ a length of thread, rope, or similar material, doubled or crossing itself, typically used as a fastening or handle. ∎ a curved stroke forming part of a letter (e.g., b, p). ∎ (also loop-the-loop) a maneuver in which an aircraft describes a vertical circle in the air. ∎ Skating a maneuver describing a curve that crosses itself, made on a single edge. ∎ (the Loop) informal name for the commercial district in downtown Chicago. 2. a structure, series, or process the end of which is connected to the beginning. ∎ an endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition. ∎ a complete circuit for an electric current. ∎ Comput. a programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied. • v. form (something) into a loop or loops; encircle: she looped her arms around his neck. ∎ follow a course that forms a loop or loops: the canal loops for two miles through the city. ∎ put into or execute a loop of tape, film, or computing instructions: the program loops back on reaching a RETURN statement. ∎ (also loop the loop) circle an aircraft vertically in the air. PHRASES: in (or out of) the loop inf. aware (or unaware) of information known to only a privileged few. throw (or knock) someone for a loop inf. surprise or astonish someone; catch someone off guard. |
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"loop." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "loop." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-loop.html "loop." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-loop.html |
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1. Long, narrow, vertical aperture with splayed jambs set in a parapet (sometimes in the merlon of a battlement) or wall for the discharge of arrows, etc., also called arrow-loop, loop-window, or loophole, occasionally with a shorter horizontal aperture across it forming a cruciform opening. The terminations of the apertures (little more than slits in the wall) were often widened into circular holes, and occasionally the point at which the slits crossed was enlarged to a circular opening as well. See gun-loop. 2. Merlon. |
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JAMES STEVENS CURL. "loop." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JAMES STEVENS CURL. "loop." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-loop.html JAMES STEVENS CURL. "loop." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-loop.html |
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1. A sequence of instructions that is repeated until a prescribed condition, such as agreement with a data element or completion of a count, is satisfied. See also do loop. 2. A configuration of a local area network that consists of nodes connected serially in a ring topology. See ring network. 3. (local loop) The (twisted pair) connection from a switching exchange to the subscriber terminal. |
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JOHN DAINTITH. "loop." A Dictionary of Computing. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN DAINTITH. "loop." A Dictionary of Computing. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O11-loop.html JOHN DAINTITH. "loop." A Dictionary of Computing. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O11-loop.html |
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Loop, district of Chicago that forms the city's financial, shopping, theatrical, and hotel center. It received its name from the elevated railroad tracks (installed 1897) that “loop” the section. As the turbulent heart of the largest Midwestern city, the Loop has figured in the poetry of Sandburg, and in such fiction as Norris's The Pit and Fuller's The Cliff‐Dwellers.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Loop." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Loop." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-Loop.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Loop." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-Loop.html |
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A. opening in a wall to look or shoot through XIV (hence loop-hole XVI); B. doubling upon itself of a string, etc. XIV; curved piece or part XVII. In sense A identical with AL. loupa (XIV) loop-hole, of unkn. orig. The identity of later senses is not certain. |
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T. F. HOAD. "loop." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "loop." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-loop.html T. F. HOAD. "loop." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-loop.html |
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loop (loop) n.
1. a bend in a tubular organ. 2. one of the patterns of dermal ridges in fingerprints. |
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"loop." A Dictionary of Nursing. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "loop." A Dictionary of Nursing. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O62-loop.html "loop." A Dictionary of Nursing. 2008. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O62-loop.html |
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loop •bloop, cock-a-hoop, coop, croup, droop, drupe, dupe, goop, group, Guadeloupe, hoop, loop, poop, recoup, roup, scoop, sloop, snoop, soup, stoep, stoop, stoup, stupe, swoop, troop, troupe, whoop
•hula-hoop • cantaloupe • nincompoop
•playgroup • subgroup • peer group
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"loop." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "loop." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-loop.html "loop." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-loop.html |
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