loop

«loop» in Mova's school dictionary: a shape like a circle made by a line, string or path that… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a loop, loops); verb (loop, loops, looped, looping)

meaning for a pupil

1) A loop is a shape like a circle made by a line, string or path that bends round and crosses or joins itself. tree →

2) To loop means to make a loop or move in a loop. tree →

3) In computing, a loop is a set of instructions that repeats. tree →

4) «In the loop» means knowing what is going on. tree →

sense in the lessons

In computing lessons (Scratch, coding), a loop repeats instructions, like «repeat 4 times: move 10, turn 90» to draw a square; a «forever» loop never stops. In science, an electric circuit must be a complete loop for the bulb to light. In everyday life you make loops to tie shoelaces; roller coasters do loops. Phrases: «in a loop», «loop the loop», «keep someone in the loop», «out of the loop», «on a loop».

examples

• Make a loop with the lace and wrap the other end around it. tree →
• The roller coaster did a loop-the-loop. tree →
• Use a loop to repeat the code ten times. tree →
• The circuit must be a complete loop. tree →
• The song played on a loop all day. tree →
• The path makes a loop around the lake. tree →
• Keep me in the loop about the party plans. tree →
• The plane looped through the sky. tree →
• The three sisters then tied the heroes with every kind of loop and twist and knot that could be thought of. tree →

note

Countable: loops. In coding, a loop with no way to stop is an «infinite loop» and may freeze a program. In maths, «repeat 4 times» in a loop means the same steps happen 4 times, so multiply: 4 × 90° = 360° for a full turn.

In the corpora

• Scooby-Doo shakes with fear, Garfield wolfs a tray of lasagne, Sonic zooms round loops faster than sound.
• Cords and strings longer than a short loop can strangle a baby or toddler.
• Along that loop ran one of the worst crimes in history.
• Lower down the river slows and swings in big loops called meanders, like a snake.
• If it cuts across the neck of a loop, the old loop is left behind as an oxbow lake.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «loop» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.