different between loop vs entwine

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p
• Homophone: loupe

Etymology 1

From Middle English loupe (“noose, loop”), earlier lowp-knot (“loop-knot”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hlaup (“a run", literally, "a leap”), used in the sense of a "running knot", from hlaupa (“to leap”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan?. Compare Swedish löp-knut (“loop-knot”), Danish løb-knude (“a running knot”), Danish løb (“a course”). More at leap.

Noun

loop (plural loops)

1. A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
2. The opening so formed.
3. A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.

   Arches, loops, and whorls are patterns found in fingerprints.

4. A ring road or beltway.
5. An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
6. A complete circuit for an electric current.
7. (programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
8. (graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
9. (topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point.
10. (transport) A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
11. (rail transport) 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.
12. (algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.
13. A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
14. An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
15. A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
16. Alternative form of loup (mass of iron).
17. (biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.

Hypernyms

• control structure

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• loophole
• loop line, loopline

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From the noun.

Verb

loop (third-person singular simple present loops, present participle looping, simple past and past participle looped)

1. (transitive) To form something into a loop.
2. (transitive) To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
3. (transitive) To fly an aircraft in a loop.
4. (transitive) To move something in a loop.
5. (transitive) To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
6. (transitive) To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
7. (transitive) To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
8. (intransitive) To form a loop.
9. (intransitive) To move in a loop.

   The program loops until the user presses a key.
10. To place in a loop.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• loop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

• Appendix:Parts of the knot

Anagrams

• OOPL, Polo, Pool, polo, pool

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??p/

Etymology 1

From Dutch lopen, from Middle Dutch lôpen, from Old Dutch l?pan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan? (“to run”).

Verb

loop (present loop, present participle lopende, past participle geloop)

1. (intransitive) to walk

Alternative forms

• loep (Western Cape)

Etymology 2

From Dutch loop, from Middle Dutch lôop, from Old Dutch *l?p.

Noun

loop (plural lope, diminutive lopie)

1. walking, gait
2. (of events) course
3. (of guns) barrel
4. (informal) business end (of a rifle, etc.)
5. (music, usually in diminutive) run: a rapid passage in music, especially along a scale

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lôop, from Old Dutch *l?p.

Noun

loop m (plural lopen, diminutive loopje n)

1. course, duration
2. a river course
3. course of a projectile
4. barrel (of a firearm)

Derived terms

Related terms

• lopen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: loop
• ? Indonesian: lop

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

loop

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

Anagrams

• Pool, pool

Portuguese

Noun

loop m (plural loops)

1. (computing) loop (repeating sequence of instructions)
2. loop (aircraft manoeuvre)

Synonyms

• (programmed sequence of instructions): ciclo, laço
• (aircraft manoeuvre): looping

Derived terms

• in loop

English

Alternative forms

• (archaic) intwine

Etymology

From en- +? twine (verb).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?twa?n/
• (General American) enPR: ?n-tw?n?, IPA^(key): /??n?twa?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n
• Hyphenation: en?twine

Verb

entwine (third-person singular simple present entwines, present participle entwining, simple past and past participle entwined)

1. To twist or twine around something (or one another).

Usage notes

Particularly used in attributive form entwined.

Often used interchangeably with intertwine, with minor usage distinctions. In symmetric sense of two things twining around each other, such as the branches of two trees, narrower intertwine may be preferred, but these are not strictly distinguished. In asymmetric sense of one thing twined in or around another – rather than mutually – such as a vine twined around a tree (but tree not twined around the vine), entwined is preferred.

Synonyms

• (twine around one another): intertwine

Derived terms

• entwinement (noun)
• entwining (noun)
• entwining (adj)

Translations