Definition of Loop

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Definition of Loop

Loop

A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.

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.

A small, narrow opening; a loophole.

A curve of any kind in the form of a loop.

A wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts.

The portion of a vibrating string, air column, etc., between two nodes; -- called also ventral segment.

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.

Related Definitions:

Air, Also, An, And, Another, Any, As, Ball, Be, Between, Bight, Called, Can, Circuit, Column, Condition, Cord, Curtain, Curve, Doubling, Eye, Fasten, Fold, For, Form, Forming, From, Gathered, Hammer, Hook, Hooked, In, Into, Iron, It, Kind, Loop, Loophole, Main, Make, Mass, Metal, Narrow, Noose, Of, Often, Opening, Or, Part, Passed, Pasty, Point, Portion, Returning, Rope, Segment, Small, Staple, String, The, Thread, Through, Tilt, To, Two, Up, Ventral, Vibrating, Which, Wire, With

Loop Quotations

I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.
Denzel Washington

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.
Marlon Brando

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.
Vanilla Ice

People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds.
Liam Neeson

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
Keith Henson

We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.
Jasmine Guy

Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop.
Todd Rundgren

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.
Edward Witten

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
Asa Gray

They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.
Sally Rand

Loop Translations

loop in Dutch is maas, breisteek, steek, strik
loop in French is boucle, volte
loop in German is Schleife
loop in Italian is cappio
loop in Spanish is lazo, lazada, hacer bucles

Quotes