different between loop vs twine

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

• twyne (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twa?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English twine, twyne, twin, from Old English tw?n (“double thread, twist, twine, linen-thread, linen”), from Proto-West Germanic *twi?n (“thread, twine”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from *dwóh? (“two”).

Noun

twine (countable and uncountable, plural twines)

1. A twist; a convolution.
2. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
3. The act of twining or winding round.
4. Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
   • 1965, Wilson Pickett, Don't Fight It (blues song), BMI Music.

     The way you jerk, the way you do the twine / You're too much, baby; I'd like to make you mine [...]

Coordinate terms

• (threads or strands twisted together): sinew

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English twinen, twynen, from Old English *tw?nian (“to twine, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *twizn?n? (“to thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh? (“two”). Cognate with Dutch twijnen (“to twine, contort, throw”), Danish tvinde (“to twist”), Swedish tvinna (“to twist, twine, throw”), Icelandic tvinna (“to merge, twine”).

Verb

twine (third-person singular simple present twines, present participle twining, simple past and past participle twined)

1. (transitive) To weave together.
2. (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
   • c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act IV, Scene 5,^[1]

     Let me twine

     Mine arms about that body […]

   • 1931, Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key, New York: Vintage, 1972, Chapter 10, p. 199,^[2]

     She was twining her fingers together.

3. (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
   • 1712, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto III,^[3]

     “Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,”

     The victor cried, “the glorious prize is mine! […] ”

4. (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 1,^[4]

     Usually some old crone was squatted on the earth floor, weaving cedar fibre or tatters of old cloth into a mat, her claw-like fingers twining in and out, in and out, among the strands that were fastened to a crude frame of sticks.

5. (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
   • 1713, Jonathan Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa,^[5]

     As rivers, though they bend and twine,

     Still to the sea their course incline:

6. (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.

   Many plants twine.

7. (obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
   • 1598, George Chapman, Hero and Leander

     dancers twine midst cedar-fragrant glades

8. (obsolete) To change the direction of.
   • 1600, Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered (1581), translated by Edward Fairfax, Book 20, Stanza 38,^[6]

     For where he turned his sword, or twined his steed,

     He slew, or man and beast on earth down laid,

9. (obsolete) To mingle; to mix.
   • 1646, Richard Crashaw, “M. Crashaw’s Answer for Hope,” lines 29-30,^[7]

     As lumpes of sugar loose themselues, and twine

     Their subtile essence with the soul of wine.

Derived terms

• entwine
• intertwine

Translations

Etymology 3

Verb

twine (third-person singular simple present twines, present participle twining, simple past and past participle twined)

1. Alternative form of twin (“to separate”)