Dictionary Entry
loop
loop is a 4-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 22 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.
- 2noun
A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight.
- 3noun
A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
- 4noun
A curve of any kind in the form of a loop.
- 5noun
A wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts.
- 6noun
The portion of a vibrating string, air column, etc., between two nodes; -- called also ventral segment.
- 7transitive verb
To make a loop of or in; to fasten with a loop or loops; -- often with up; as, to loop a string; to loop up a curtain.
- 8noun
a flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane
- 9noun
a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates
- 10noun
fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
- 11noun
an intrauterine device in the shape of a loop
- 12noun
the topology of a network whose components are serially connected in such a way that the last component is connected to the first component
- 13noun
a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied
- 14noun
the basic pattern of the human fingerprint
- 15noun
an inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan)
"he's no longer in the loop"
- 16noun
(computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated
"the solution took hundreds of iterations"
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- 17noun
anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself)
- 18verb
fasten or join with a loop
"He looped the watch through his belt"
- 19verb
wind around something in coils or loops
- 20verb
make a loop in
"loop a rope"
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- 21verb
fly loops, perform a loop
"the stunt pilot looped his plane"
- 22verb
move in loops
"The bicycle looped around the tree"
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