loop
verb/luːp/
/luːp/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they loop | /luːp/ /luːp/ |
| he / she / it loops | /luːps/ /luːps/ |
| past simple looped | /luːpt/ /luːpt/ |
| past participle looped | /luːpt/ /luːpt/ |
| -ing form looping | /ˈluːpɪŋ/ /ˈluːpɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] loop something + adv./prep. to form or bend something into a loop
- He looped the strap over his shoulder.
- The horse’s reins were looped around its neck.
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. to move in a way that makes the shape of a loop
- The river loops around the valley.
- The ball looped high up in the air.
- [intransitive, transitive] to play a piece of film or tape so that the pictures and sound are repeated continuously
- The video installation has been set to loop.
- loop something The device loops a recorded sound clip rather than synthesizing its own sound.
- [intransitive, transitive] loop (something) (computing) to repeat a set of instructions again and again until a particular condition is satisfied
- The coder looped the program three times.
Word Originlate Middle English: of unknown origin; compare with Scottish Gaelic lùb ‘loop, bend’.
Idioms
See loop in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryloop the loop
- to fly or make a plane fly in a circle going up and down
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