loop

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an inner circle of advisors

   They are no longer in the loop.

2. 2
   verb

   fasten or join with a loop

   They looped the watch through their belt.

3. 3
   verb

   make a loop in

   loop a rope

4. 4
   verb

   fly loops, perform a loop

   The stunt pilot looped the plane.

5. 5
   verb

   move in loops

   The bicycle looped around the tree

6. 6
   noun

   A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.

   Arches, loops, and whorls are patterns found in fingerprints.

7. 7
   noun

   A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.

   feedback loop

8. 8
   noun

   An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.

   He can hang out in the back room of the local adult bookstore […] and hope for a stand-up blow-job through the glory hole in the partition of the two booths that show gay loops.

Etymology

From Middle English loupe (“noose, loop”), earlier lowp-knot (“loop-knot”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hlaup (“a run”), used in the sense of a "running knot", from hlaupa (“to leap”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to leap, run”). Compare Swedish löp-knut (“loop-knot”), Danish løb-knude (“a running knot”), Danish løb (“a course”). More at leap. The verb is derived from the noun.