different between circuit vs hoop

English

Etymology

From Middle English circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus (“a going round”), from circuire (“go round”), from circum (“around”) + ire. As a Chinese administrative division, a calque of Chinese ? (dào) or ? (lù).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [?s??.k?t]
• (General American) IPA^(key): [?s?.k?t]
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): [?s??.k??], [?s??.k??]
• Rhymes: -??(r)k?t

Noun

circuit (plural circuits)

1. The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
   • 1904, Popular Science Monthly Volume 64 page 33

     After 27 days the moon has made one circuit among the stars, moving from west to east. But in those 27 days the sun has likewise moved eastwardly, about 27 degrees. The moon, then, has to make one circuit and a little more in order to be again in the line joining the earth and sun, in order to be again 'new.'

2. The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
3. That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
4. The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
6. (electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
7. A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job
   • November 25 2016, Jane Cornwell in The Age, Bill Bailey: bird loving joker at the peak of his career

     Having cut his teeth on London's take-no-prisoners comedy circuit he can handle hecklers too, sometimes with musical accompaniment; recent shows see him armed with a veritable chamber orchestra's worth of instruments, all of which he plays.

8. (law) The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
9. (historical) Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
   1. The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.
   2. The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.
   3. Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.
10. (law) Abbreviation of circuit court.
11. (Methodism) The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
12. By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
13. (motor racing) A track on which a race in held; a racetrack
    • November 13 2016, Formula 1

      Interlagos is the 24th track Hamilton has won at in F1, which is more than any other driver in history. The only circuit on the current calendar that Hamilton hasn’t won at is Baku, which only joined the schedule this year.

14. (obsolete) circumlocution
    • 1572, Richard Huloet, Huloets Dictionarie

      circuite of words.

15. (Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
16. (graph theory) A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed.
17. A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.
    • 1990, Arthur A. Thompson, ?Alonzo J. Strickland, Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases (page 341)

      Mike Patrick commented on a theater chain he was considering buying and converting to 99 ¢ theaters with multiplex screens: I'm looking at a circuit of theaters in a major metropolitan area. Now the owner hasn't told me that it is for sale yet.

    • 2002, Allen Eyles, ?Keith Skone, Cinemas of Hertfordshire (page 61)

      It again featured Edgar Simmons (the architect and chairman), John Ray (the builder), L. E. Agar (managing director) and J. G. Wainwright (head of a separate circuit of cinemas).

Synonyms

• (path or distance around a space): periplus (naval)
• (Imperial Chinese administrative divisions): dao; lu, route (Later Jin to Song); tao (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

circuit (third-person singular simple present circuits, present participle circuiting, simple past and past participle circuited)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To travel around.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin circuitus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /si??kujt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /sir?kujt/

Noun

circuit m (plural circuits)

1. circuit

Further reading

• “circuit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “circuit” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “circuit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “circuit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?r?k?i/
• Hyphenation: cir?cuit
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

circuit n (plural circuits, diminutive circuitje n)

1. (sports) racetrack

   Synonym: racebaan

2. (physics) electric circuit

   Synonym: stroomkring

3. (figuratively) exclusive group of individuals, clique, circle

   Synonyms: kliek, kring

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: sirkuit

French

Etymology

From Latin circuitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?.k?i/
• Homophone: circuits

Noun

circuit m (plural circuits)

1. circuit
2. tour

Derived terms

• circuit imprimé
• coup de circuit

Further reading

• “circuit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kir.ku.it/, [?k?rku?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??ir.ku.it/, [?t??irkuit?]

Verb

circuit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of circue?

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French circuit and Latin circuitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??ir.ku?it/

Noun

circuit n (plural circuite)

1. circuit

Declension

Related terms

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ho?op, IPA^(key): /hu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English h?p (“mound, raised land; in combination, circular object”), from Proto-Germanic *h?p? (“bend, bow, arch”) (compare Saterland Frisian Houp (“hoop”), Dutch hoep (“hoop”), Old Norse hóp (“bay, inlet”)), from Proto-Indo-European *k?b- (“to bend”) (compare Lithuanian kab? (“hook”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (k?p?, “hill, island”)). More at camp.

Noun

hoop (plural hoops)

1. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
2. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.

   the cheese hoop, or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese

3. A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
4. (now chiefly historical) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 16:

     He took the removed chair and drew it so near mine, squatting in it with his ugly weight, that he pressed upon my hoop.
5. A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
6. (Britain, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

7. (basketball) The rim part of a basketball net.
8. (US, in the plural, metonymically) The game of basketball.
9. A hoop earring.
10. (Australia, metonymically, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse.
11. (sports, usually in the plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey
    • 2003 May 21, Barry Glendenning "Minute-by-minute: Celtic 2 - 3 FC Porto (AET)" The Guardian (London):

      Porto are playing from right to left in blue and white stripes, blue shorts and blue socks. Celtic are in their usual green and white hoops, with white shorts and white socks.

    • 2009 June 20, Ian O'Riordan "Tipperary look in better shape" The Irish Times:

      Tipperary v Clare: IF ANYTHING can relight the fire of the old Clare hurling passion it’s the sight of the blue jersey with the gold hoop.

12. (figuratively, usually in the plural) A requirement that must be met in order to proceed.

Derived terms

• hula hoop
• jump through hoops

Translations

Verb

hoop (third-person singular simple present hoops, present participle hooping, simple past and past participle hooped)

1. (transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop.

2. (transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

hoop (plural hoops)

1. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
2. The hoopoe.

Verb

hoop (third-person singular simple present hoops, present participle hooping, simple past and past participle hooped)

1. (dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
2. (dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.

Derived terms

• hooping cough
• hooper

Further reading

• hoop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• Pooh, ooph, phoo, pooh

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????p/

Etymology 1

From Dutch hoop, from Middle Dutch hôop, from Old Dutch *h?p, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.

Noun

hoop (plural hope, diminutive hopie)

1. heap

Derived terms

• ophoop

Etymology 2

From Dutch hoop, from Middle Dutch hope, from Old Dutch *hopa.

Noun

hoop (uncountable)

1. hope

Etymology 3

From Dutch hopen, from Middle Dutch h?pen, from Old Dutch hopon, from Proto-West Germanic *hop?n.

Verb

hoop (present hoop, present participle hopende, past participle gehoop)

1. to hope

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?p/
• Hyphenation: hoop
• Rhymes: -o?p

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch hope, from Old Dutch *hopa, from the verb hopon (modern Dutch hopen). Cognate with English hope.

Noun

hoop f (uncountable)

1. A hope, aspiration, wish

Antonyms

• (hope): wanhoop

Derived terms

• hopeloos
• hoopgevend
• hoopvol

Descendants

• Afrikaans: hoop

Verb

hoop

1. first-person singular present indicative of hopen
2. imperative of hopen

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch hôop, from Old Dutch *h?p, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.

Noun

hoop m (plural hopen, diminutive hoopje n)

1. A pile, heap, stack

   Synonyms: berg, stapel

2. (figuratively) A lot, heaps
3. A pile of manure, faeces
4. A mass.

   Synonym: massa

5. A multitude, a throng.

   Synonyms: drom, massa, menigte, schare

6. (obsolete) A unit of soldiers, a contingent.

Synonyms

• berg
• massa
• stapel

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Papiamentu: hopi

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *h?p, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.

Noun

hôop m

1. heap, pile
2. group of people or animals, troop, herd
3. meeting

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• hôpen

Descendants

• Dutch: hoop
• Limburgish: houp

Further reading

• “hoop”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “hoop (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

West Frisian

Etymology

See hoopje (“to hope”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ho?p/

Noun

hoop n (no plural)

1. hope

Alternative forms

• hope

Further reading

• “hoop”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011