How to pronounce “loop”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
• The opening so formed.
• A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
• A ring road or beltway.
• An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
• A complete circuit for an electric current.
• (programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
• (graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
• (topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point.
• (transport) A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
• (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.
• (rail transport) A passing loop.
• (algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.
• A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
• An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
• A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
• Alternative form of loup (“mass of iron”).
• (biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
• (Canada, US, dated, sports) A sports league
• (cricket) The curved path of the ball bowled by a spin bowler.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To form something into a loop.
• (transitive) To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
• (transitive) To fly an aircraft in a loop.
• (transitive) To move something in a loop.
• (transitive) To play something (such as a song or video) in a loop.
• (transitive) To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
• (transitive) To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
• (transitive) To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
• (intransitive) To form a loop.
• (intransitive) To move in a loop.
• To place in a loop.
• (education, ambitransitive) To have the teacher progress through multiple school years with the same students.

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