different between zoop vs loop

English

Etymology

Imitative; compare zap, zip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Interjection

zoop

1. (colloquial) Sound effect suggesting rapid motion.
   • 1989, Charles A. Murray, Catherine Bly Cox, Apollo, the race to the moon (page 223)

     "Let me show you how this damn stuff explodes in pure oxygen," Johnson said, and turned on the projector. Markley was "totally aghast" himself. "It just went ZOOP! It was unbelievable. The stuff burned like you couldn't imagine."

   • 1999, School Library Journal (volume 45, issues 1-6, page 180)

     On the day they play the Wild Things for the City Cup, he dons his gear (pulling on his underwear with a "zap" and his socks with a "zoop") and heads for the field.

   • 1999, Popular Photography (November 1999)

     And a bit more manly (or womanly) turn of a long tripod screw in a shallow tripod socket and, zoop, through the socket end goes the tripod screw, right into the camera works. And this can also happen with inadequate metal tripod sockets […]

Anagrams

• Pozo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?p

Verb

zoop

1. singular past indicative of zuipen

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