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Definition: Loop |
LoopNoun1. Fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines. 2. Anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a line or cord etc.) that is closed or nearly closed. 3. An inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan); "he's no longer in the loop". 4. The basic pattern of the human fingerprint. 5. A computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied. 6. An intrauterine device in the shape of a loop. 7. A complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates. 8. A flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane. Verb1. Move in loops. 2. Make a loop in, as of rope or string. 3. Fly loops, perform a loop, as of an airplane. 4. Wind around something in coils or loops. 5. Fasten with a loop. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "loop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Loop |
Aerospace | 1. = antinode. 2. = mesh. 3. = loop antenna.4. = feedback control loop. (references) |
Bible | Loop a knotted "eye" of cord, corresponding to the "taches" or knobs in the edges of the curtains of the tabernacle, for joining them into a continuous circuit, fifty to a curtain (Ex. 26:4, 5, 10, 11). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Energy | In a pressurized water reactor, the coolant flow path through piping from the reactor pressure vessel to the steam generator, to the reactor coolant pump, and back to the reactor pressure vessel. Large PWRs may have as many as four separate loops. (references) |
Industry | A loop occurs at the time of a sharp breakage in winding due to reaction or due to insufficiently tensioning the yarn held in the hand when restarting after a breakage. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Any metal or other ring intended for reception of, e. g. a rope or a hook. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | A wire usually of platinum bent at one end into a small loop(usually 4 mm inside diameter)and used in transfering microorganisms. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A turn or bend in a thread or line; a bend in a wire; one of the patterns formed by the dermal ridges on the finger tips. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | A closed circuit of pipe in which materials and components may be placed to test them under different conditions, such as of temperature and irradiation; in a reactor, a piping system through which a fluid may flow as a part of reactor operation or for experimental purposes. If part of an experimental loop is in the core, such a loop is usually called an in-pile loop. If the loop also contains fissionable materials, it is called an active loop. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Originating from video editing machinery, used to cut NTSC/Hi8 film. Definition: During video editing, slices from one source can be placed syncronistically along the final production, forming a repeating idea or concept. Context: Earth. Social Source: Media. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Transportation | The part of the skirt between the fingers and the hard structure. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A closed flight path of an aeroplane in a vertical plane. Normally the aircraft's upper surface remains on the inside of the curved flight path. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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The Chicago Loop is a portion of the downtown of Chicago, Illinois containing the financial district, the Art Institute of Chicago, and many architectural and artistic landmarks, including a large outdoor sculpture by Pablo Picasso installed there in 1967. The area is so named because the Chicago Elevated train lines form a loop around this portion of downtown, running along Lake Street on the north, Wabash Street on the east, Van Buren Street on the south, and Wells Street on the west.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Chicago Loop."
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In computer science, control flows specify what path the execution heads for. Common among them are branching, looping and jump.
Branching
To be come
Looping
In computer science, a program loop (or just loop) is a sequence of commands that is specified once but carried out several times in succession. A loop is a method of iteration. A loop executes the code "inside" the loop a specific number of times, or once for each of a collection of items, or until some condition is met, called the exit condition of the loop.
Modern programming languages provide many constructs for looping. Typically they will have something like a "for x = 1 to 10..." statement to execute a loop a fixed number of times (in this case 10, where the variable "x" is called a loop index) and statements like "repeat...until (condition)" or "while (condition)...", which repeat the loop until the specified condition becomes true (there are often two types of these, differing in whether the condition is tested before or after the loop). Many languages with collection data types (for example, Perl) also have something like "foreach" that causes a loop to execute once for each member of a collection. Many languages also provide something like a "break" instruction to exit from a loop before its normal exit condition is met; this is called early termination.
A common programming mistake is to code a loop whose exit condition is never met, either because the programmer specified it incorrectly or because the behavior of the program differs from the programmer's expectations. This creates an endless loop bug. An example of this is a loop that waits for the system date to become January 1 2002. Because January 1 has already passed, the loop will never complete. See also Halting problem.
Tail recursion can be used equivalently to iteration, and therefore some languages such as Scheme programming language, which lacks "traditional" loops, use tail recursion instead.
Jump
See also GOTO.
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The term loop, in its general sense, refers to something that closes back on on itself. It has been used in the following particular applications:
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
- A loop is one of the fundamental structures used to tie knots. See Loop (knot).
- In mathematics a loop is a quasigroup with an identity element. See Loop (algebra).
- In computer science, a loop is a sequence of commands that is carried out several times but written just once. See Program loop.
- In telecommunication, a loop is an electrical circuit that connects a telephone handset to the telephone exchange. See Loop (telecommunication).
- In music, a loop is a finite element of sound which is repeated by technical means. See music loop.
- The Loop is an area in downtown Chicago. See Loop (Chicago).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Loop."
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The Loop is the nickname of an area in downtown Chicago. It is also the official name of the district. Parts of the subway system (El-Train) come above ground and go around the downtown area on a loop of elevated (hence the "El" in "El-Train") train tracks.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Loop (Chicago)."
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A loop is one of the fundamental structures used to tie knots. A loop is not a knot itself but is used to build more secure knots.list of loop knots
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Hardware or software device which feeds the incoming signal or data back to the sender.Local loop is a telecommunications term for the "last mile" connection from the trunk to the subscriber.
A modem can be configured to loop incoming signals from either the remote modem or the local terminal. This can be used for error diagnostics, comparing the data sent to the data received.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Loop (telecommunication)."
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In music, the term loop describes a finite element of sound which is repeated by technical means (i.e. tape loops, delay effects, digital sampling).While the roots of non-technical "looping" can be found in almost all cultures, but most prominently in Gamelan, the first loop musicians were Edgar Varese and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Based on an idea by Terry Riley to use one tape on two tape machines, Brian Eno and Robert Fripp created the technical basis for their No Pussyfooting album - this technological concept was later dubbed Frippertronics.
Today's followers like David Torn or Steve Lawson use digital devices to create and modify loops, often in conjunction with various electronic musical effects.
Another approach was the use of pre-recorded loops, first exemplified by Grandmaster Flash and his turntablism. Use of pre-recorded loops made its way into many styles of popular music, including hip hop, trip hop, techno, drum'n'bass, and contemporary dub, as well as into mood music on soundtracks. Royalty-free loops are available online from various vendors, including Sonic Foundry and Acidfanatic.com; programs to create music using loops range in quality and price and include Acid Music, Cakewalk Sonar, and Fruity Loops.
A famous festival for loop based music is Loopstock, established 2002.
External Link
- Looper's Delight is a cultural and informational resource for musicians creating with audio loops of every sort.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Music loop."
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In mathematics, a quasigroup is a set Q with a binary operation, here denoted *, with the property that for all a and b in Q there are unique solutions to the equations a * x = b and y * a = b. In this encyclopedia it will also be assumed that a quasigroup is nonempty.Note that quasigroups have the cancellation property: if a * b = a * c, then b = c. This is because x = b is certainly a solution of the equation a * b = a * x, and the solution is required to be unique. Similarly, if a * b = c * b, then a = c.
The multiplication table of a finite quasigroup is called a Latin square: an n × n table filled with n different symbols in such a way that each symbol occurs exactly once in each row and exactly once in each column.
A quasigroup group with an identity element is called a loop. It follows from the definition of a quasigroup that each element of a loop has both a left inverse and a right inverse.
A Moufang loop is a quasigroup Q in which (a * b) * (c * a) = (a * (b * c)) * a, for all a, b and c in Q. As the name suggests, Moufang loops are actually loops, and we will now prove this. Let a be any element of Q, and let e be the element such that a * e = a. Then for any x in Q, (x * a) * x = (x * (a * e)) * x = (x * a) * (e * x), and cancelling gives x = e * x. So e is a left identity element. Now let b be the element such that b * e = e. Then y * b = e * (y * b), as e is a left identity, so (y * b) * e = (e * (y * b)) * e = (e * y) * (b * e) = (e * y) * e = y * e. Cancelling gives y * b = y, so b is a right identity element. Lastly, e = e * b = b, so e is a two-sided identity element.
Every group is a quasigroup, because a * x = b if and only if x = a-1 * b, and y * a = b if and only if y = b * a-1. Moreover, an associative quasigroup must be a Moufang loop, and an associative loop must clearly be a group. This shows that groups are precisely the associative quasigroups. The structure theory of loops is quite analogous to that of groups.
Examples of quasigroups:
- Every group.
- Every Steiner triple system.
- The set of nonzero elements of a finite-dimensional algebra with no zero divisors. (For example, the nonzero octonions.)
- Rn with the operation x * y = (x + y) / 2. More generally, any vector space over a field of characteristic not equal to 2 gives a quasigroup using this operation.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Quasigroup."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LOOP | English | Low-cost optical components | Computing, Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: LoopSynonyms: closed circuit (n), cringle (n), eyelet (n), grommet (n), grummet (n), coil (v), curl (v), intertwine (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: open circuit (n), uncoil (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence or want of Intellect | Instinct, brute instinct, stimulus-response loop, conditioned response, instinctive reaction, Pavlovian response. |
Circuit | Noun: circuit, roundabout way, digression, detour, circumbendibus, ambages, loop; winding; (circuition); zigzag; (deviation). |
Circularity | Circle, circlet, ring, areola, hoop, roundlet, annulus, annulet, bracelet, armlet; ringlet; eye, loop, wheel; cycle, orb, orbit, rundle, zone, belt, cordon, band; contrate wheel, crown wheel; hub; nave; sash, girdle, cestus, cincture, baldric, fillet, fascia, wreath, garland; crown, corona, coronet, chaplet, snood, necklace, collar; noose, lasso, lassoo. |
Curvature | Carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck; parabola, hyperbola; helix, spiral; catenary, festoon; conchoid, cardioid; caustic; tracery; arched ceiling, arched roof; bay window, bow window. |
Dissuasion | Loop hole, starting hole; how to creep out of, salvo, come off; way of escape. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm tightening my belt one loop so that I don't feel hunger pains, and I suggest your mother and sister do likewise (Troll 2; writing credit: Claudio Fragasso) I was out of the loop on gifts (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Uhh Jackie, I don't know what loop it is you're talking about (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Loopy de Loop (1969) Loop (1963) Long Loop Laramie (1932) Looping the Loop (1928) The Long Loop on the Pecos (1927) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | B. anthracis Colony Characteristics: A. Consistency sticky (tenacious). When teased with loop, colony will stand up like beaten egg white. Credit: CDC. |  | Cygnus Loop Supernova Blast Wave. Credit: NASA. |
 | Closed Loop Breathing System. Credit: NASA. |  | This is an image of a small portion of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, taken with the ... Credit: NASA. |
 | This Hubble telescope image shows a small portion of a nebula called the "Cygnus Loop." This ... Credit: NASA. |  | Satellite sensors and imagery have revolutionized oceanography An image of the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Salmon fishing with large loop nets by Native Americans. Tribal tradition determines the spot each tribal member fishes from. F&W 12,934. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Infrared imagery of the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Stream. Lighter colors north of Florida Panhandle indicate extent of cold air swooping down from the north behind a cold front. Clouds in upper right corner show very cold tops (lighter) and indicate significant convection and possible thunderstorms. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
 | Loop Current shows as darker water in the Gulf of Mexico as seen by Very High Resolution Radiometer (VHRR) on NOAA -3 satellite. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | Lake Fork of the Gunnison River, Alpine Loop National Back Country Byway. Credit: Arden Anderson. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "The Loop from the Air" by William J. Ray Commentary: "Another shot from that same Cessna flight over Kansas City." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Loop or thiazide diuretics should be used with caution. (references) | |
The wire loop goes around your neck and connects to the mobile phone. (references) | ||
The loop transmits speech from the phone to the hearing aid in your ear. It also helps get rid of background noise to make it easier to talk in a noisy environment. (references) | ||
Business | It also favored the opening of the local loop to competition. (references) | |
One third of those issued are licenses for local loop telephony. (references) | ||
For the user loop, most of the service providers use Lietuvos Telekomas infrastructure. (references) | ||
Economic History | Hong Kong | In 2000, OFTA issued five new licenses for the provision of wireless local loop (WLL) services. (references) |
Australia | With the unbundling of the local loop, the opportunity to offer a range of services has presented itself. (references) | |
Australia | XDSL technologies became available to consumers in August 2000, following the unbundling of the local loop. (references) | |
Political Economy | AUSTRIA | Competitors are supposed to negotiate with the incumbent Telekom Austria regarding conditions of local loop access, and will have recourse to the telecoms' control authority if they cannot reach agreement with the dominant carrier. (references) |
JAMAICA | Phase Two of the telecommunications sector's liberalization became effective September 1, 2001, when full facilities based competition in domestic services including Internet access using cable television networks and wireless local loop began. (references) | |
AUSTRIA | Several competitors now offer fixed-line telephone service over Telekom Austria lines, which, however, still dominates fixed-line service over the "last mile." The telecommunications' control authority issued an order for unbundling of the local loop in September 2000. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Democrats don't want us controlling any of our retirement money because it takes them out of the loop. |
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| "Loop" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.83% of the time. "Loop" is used about 842 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.83% | 790 | 8,774 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.2% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.49% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.47% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 842 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "loop" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Loop | Last name | 1,000 | 11,675 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Loop, TX |
Expressions using "loop": adf loop aerials ♦ Afferent Loop Syndrome ♦ Alderson loop ♦ asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop ♦ asymmetrical digital subscriber loop ♦ atc loop ♦ Blind Loop Syndrome ♦ closed loop ♦ collapsed loop ♦ convection loop ♦ coupling loop ♦ curtain loop ♦ Cushing loop ♦ Cushing's loop ♦ defined loop ♦ delay lock loop ♦ dependency loop ♦ digital loop carrier ♦ digital Subscriber Loop ♦ do loop ♦ dup loop ♦ empties loop ♦ endless loop ♦ endless loop tachycardia ♦ external processor loop ♦ feedback loop ♦ for loop ♦ ground loop ♦ horizontal loop combination ♦ indefinite loop ♦ induction loop ♦ inductive loop ♦ infinite loop ♦ inoculation loop ♦ iterative loop ♦ local loop ♦ logical loop ♦ loop abortion ♦ loop aerial ♦ loop antenna ♦ loop back ♦ loop break ♦ loop combination ♦ loop fusion ♦ loop gain ♦ loop interruption ♦ loop kick ♦ loop knot ♦ loop line ♦ loop network ♦ loop of hair ♦ Loop of Henle ♦ loop selvage ♦ loop signaling system ♦ loop signalling system ♦ loop the loop ♦ loop through ♦ looping the loop ♦ main loop ♦ make a loop ♦ minor loop ♦ nonlinear optical loop mirror ♦ open loop ♦ pinched loop ♦ program loop ♦ repeat loop ♦ rotatable loop antenna ♦ shoulder loop ♦ slaving loop ♦ smear loop ♦ spent fuel pit cooling loop ♦ subscriber loop ♦ tight loop ♦ to ignore a loop portion ♦ to skip a loop portion ♦ vertical loop combination ♦ WHILE loop. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "loop": loop-based, loop-end, loop-film, loop-hole, loop-holes, loop-in, loop-light, loop-line, Loop-o-plane, loop-stitch, loop-stitched, loop-stitching, loop-streets, loop-the-loop, loop-the-loops. | |
Ending with "loop": open-loop, stem-loop. | |
Containing "loop": crossed-loop antenna, ex-loop-ers, helix-loop-helix, Helix-Loop-Helix Motifs, helix-loop-helix-leucine. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fruity loop | 1,843 | fruity loop tutorial | 75 |
loop | 1,455 | free music loop | 74 |
fruit loop | 461 | chicago loop | 71 |
drum loop | 217 | sample loop | 64 |
acid loop | 195 | sound loop | 56 |
free loop | 176 | 4 fruity loop | 54 |
frooty loop | 172 | loop antenna | 54 |
killer loop | 150 | free fruity loop download | 52 |
hook loop | 135 | free fruity loop | 50 |
music loop | 131 | audio loop | 50 |
hook and loop fastener | 130 | loop recorder | 47 |
free acid loop | 116 | wireless local loop | 47 |
fruity loop download | 110 | hip hop loop | 47 |
froot loop | 107 | fruity loop sample | 47 |
fruity loop 3 | 102 | ground loop | 44 |
free drum loop | 101 | loop radar | 42 |
fruty loop | 96 | guitar loop | 42 |
uo loop | 94 | free sound loop | 39 |
killer loop sun glasses | 82 | bass loop | 36 |
97.9 loop | 79 | fruity loop studio | 36 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "loop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lak (halter, lasso, mesh, necklace, noose, slipknot, tag, thong, trap), thile (buttonhole, stitch), shtrëngoj me lak, kthehem vertikalisht, filiqe (shank), bërryl (bend, elbow, offset, oxbow, toggle, twist, winding), bëj lak. (various references) | |
Arabic | عقدة (clove, complex, ganglion, hitch, kink, knob, knurl, nub, tangle, umbo), عقد أنشوطة, التحلق, الإ نقلاب ضرب من الطيور, أنشوطة (noose), رباط ستارة, دائرة كهربائية (circuit). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | връзвам на клуп (noose), правя лупинг, правя затворена верига, правя на клуп, лупинг, закачам с гайка, затворена линия, примка (deadfall, game, halter, mesh, noose, snare, trap), витка, ухо (ear, eye, hanger, joggle, lug), връх (acme, apex, cap, consummation, cope-stone, cusp, extremity, full, gad, head, height, heyday, meridian, peak, perfection, pink, pinnacle, point, summit, tip, tiptop, top, topping, vertex), гайка (nut, screw), клуп (mesh, noose, sling), камшиче (agrimony, hairline), контур (figuration), халка (circlet, clip, hanger, hoop, ring, wedding ring), скоба (brace, bracing, bracket, clamp, clinch, clip, corbel, dog nail, girdle, holdfast, hoop, rim, shackle, staple, tie, yoke), осморка (eight). (various references) | |
Chinese | 圈 (a fold, chest, circle, enclose, Hungary, pen, ring, thorax, to confine). (various references) | |
Czech | upevnit smyèkou, smyèka (kink, knot, noose, sling), přemet (handspring, somersault, tumble), klièkovat (dribble, hedge one's bets, jink, zigzag), dìlat smyèku. (various references) | |
Danish | loop, loekke (ansa, sling), løkke (ring, snarl), spiral (spiral), bugt (bay, golf, gulf), elektr.: sloejfe, forsøgskreds (experimental loop), fys.: bug, hæfteklemme (hook), øje (eye), slynge (ansa, catapult, sling, tie), udstrygningsløkke (inoculation loop, smear loop), platinløkke (inoculation loop, smear loop), ring (cordon line, eye, frenulum, frenum, grommet, orthodontic band, pessary, pessulum, pessum, pit, ring, ring pessary, shaft), ringnet (loop network, looped link, looped network, ring network, ring-structured computer network), sløjfe/lænke, sloejfe, krampe (clip, convulsion, cramp, hasp, hook, hook joint, muscle cramp, staple, unsound). (various references) | |
Dutch | strik (mesh), steek (mesh, prick, spades, sting, stitch), maas (mesh, Meuse), breisteek (mesh). (various references) | |
Esperanto | maŝo (mesh). (various references) | |
Faeroese | snara (mesh, snare, turn, turn around, turn away, turn round), meskur (mesh), eyga (eye, mesh). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیچ خوردن (Sprain, Wreathe, Wrench, Wry), پیچ (Bolt, Buckle, Curve, Knee, Meander, Ramp, Rick, Screw, Twine, Twist, Vis, Vortex, Whorl), چرخ (Axle, Cart, Cycle, Rhomb, Turquoise, Wheel), گره زدن (Knit, Knot, Ruffle, Tie, Truss, Twitch), گره (Burr, Ganglion, Knob, Knot, Lump, Parcel, Snag, Snarl, Tie), حلقه طناب (Bight), حلقه دارکردن , حلقه (Chain, Curl, Earring, Gird, Girdle, Hank, Hoop, Ran, Ring, Segment, Vortex, Whorl, Wicket, Wisp), خمیدگی (Bend, Bent, Curvature, Offset, Rake, Stoop). (various references) | |
Finnish | silmukka (eyelet, mesh, noose, stitch coil), lenkki (fastening). (various references) | |
French | boucle (endless loop, experimental loop, loop-line), circuit. (various references) | |
German | Schlinge (gin, guelder rose, halter, mesh, noose, sling, snare, snowball), schleife (bow, bow tie, horse-shoe bend, kink, lanyard, ribbon, twisty bend). (various references) | |
Greek | βρόγχος (bronchus), βρόχος (endless loop, mesh, sling, snare), θηλιά (noose, slip knot, tab), θηλειά (hitch). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לולאה (bow, buttonhole, hitch, noose, tab), קשר (bond, communication, connection, converse, knot, liaison, link, linkage, linking, nexus, node, noose, relation, relationship, tie), עניבה (cravat, knot, necktie, noose, tie). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hurok (bight, bow, halter, hitch, kink, knot, lobe, noose, sling, slip knot, snare, snarl, springe). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ikatan (bond, knot, league, society, tie, union). (various references) | |
Italian | occhiello (buttonhole, eye, eyelet), nodo (bond, Burl, crux, gnarl, heart, hitch, junction, kink, knob, knot, knurl, node, tangle, tie), cappio (bow, noose), anello (circle, link, ring). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 環 (circle, hoop, link, ring, wheel), 乳 (breast, milk), 乳 (breast, milk). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | わ (circle, counter for birds, counter for bundles, counter for rabbits, harmony, hoop, link, peace, ring, sum, wheel), ちち (breast, father, lagging, milk, slow). (various references) | |
Korean | 루프 (LOOPS). (various references) | |
Manx | loob, lhoobey (arching, bend, bow, coil, coiling, curl up, curve, double over, flex, hunch, incurvate, inflect, inflexion, looping, sag, squirm, stoop, stooping, twine, winding, wriggle, writhe), cribbag (noose). (various references) | |
Norwegian | løkke, sløyfe. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ooplay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | laço (bond, cufflink, decoy, decoy-duck, fillet, knot, lace, lariat, lasso, link, mantrap, mesh, rope, shoe-lace, snare, snood, springe, tie, trap, tying, yoke), laçada (bight, mesh). (various references) | |
Romanian | laţ (gin, lath, link, noose, sling, snare, springe, trap, wire), şerpui (elbow, meander, twist, wave, wind, wriggle), brãţarã (armlet, bangle, bracelet, bracket, collar, ring), buclã (coil, curl, forelock, frizzle, knot, lock, ringlet, ripple, tress), cheotoare (buttonhole, eyelet), cot (bend, crack, crook, cubit, curvature, curve, elbow, Ell, knee, knuckle, meander, sweep, turn, turning, twist, winding), deschidere (aperture, bay, beginning, commencement, opening, span, spread), înnoda (knot, piece out, tie), gaurã (aperture, burrow, cave, cavity, den, earth, eyelet, gap, hole, hollow, opening, orifice, pink, vent), ureche (audition, ear, eye, handle, hearing, strap), meandru (bend, crook, double, elbow, ins and outs, meander, turn, winding), nod (bend, bow, Burl, gnarl, half-hitch, joint, kink, knar, knob, knot, knurl, lump, node, nodosity, noose, snub), ochi (aim, cover, covet, eyes, Gemma, glade, glances, link, mesh, optic, orb, peeper, pink, pip, ring, scan, sight, stitch, suspect, take aim at, take sight, train, vortex), orificiu (aperture, hole, mouth, orifice, port, vent), prinde cu un nod, ridica (advance, aggrandize, appear, arise, arrest, ascend, assemble, balloon, bring up, build, carry up, collect, construct, convene, create, draw the cloth, elevate, encash, enhance, erect, found, get up, heave, hoist, interpose, kick up, lift, Mount, muster, perk up, pick up, pitch, pose, prong, pry, put, put up, raise, receive, remove, resound, rise, round up, salt, set up, shovel, start, step up, stick up, straighten, strike, suspend, take up, up, uplift, weigh), sumete, ganglion (ganglion, splint). (various references) | |
Russian | хомут (collar, horse collar, horse-collar, neck yoke, neck-yoke, strap, yoke), ганглий (ganglion, nerve-knot), виток (coil, turn, volute, volution, whorl, wind), зацикливать цикл;петля, бугель (loop line, strap, yoke), петля (ansa, buttonhole, hinge, hitch, kink, mesh, noose, self-loop, stitch, tag). (various references) | |
Scottish | lùb (bend, consent, humble, incline, noose, snare, stoop, yield). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | luping, staviti u omču, petlja (eye, hoop, noose, runner, sphincter, stitch), omča (bight, noose, sling, springe), napraviti petlju. (various references) | |
Spanish | lazo (attachment, bind, bond, bow, connection, knot, lariat, lasso, league, link, list, noose, snare, springe, tie), bucle (curl, lock). (various references) | |
Swedish | slinga (coil, fold, scroll, strand, trail, wreath), ögla (eye, hank, kink, snag). (various references) | |
Thai | เคลื่อนที่เป็นรูปวงแหวน, ผูกเป็นห่วง, ทำให้เป็นห่วง, รูกำแพง, ห่วง (hoop, ring). (various references) | |
Turkish | takla (flip flap, flip-flop, somersault, tumble), spiral (helical, spiral, spiry), kavis (arc, arch, bow, camber, curve, winding), ilmik olmak, ilmik (bowknot, eye, knot, noose, slipknot, stitch), ilmek (bowknot, knot, noose, slipknot, stitch, thumb knot), iliklemek (button up, do up, fasten), ilik (buttonhole, eye, frog, grummet, marrow, medulla, pith, warm), düğümlemek (knot, tie), düğüm (gradient, knot, nodal, node, nodosity, nodule, tangle, tie, twist), dönme (apostasy, circumvolution, conversion, convert, cycle, deflection, deflexion, facing, gyration, proselyte, renegade, rotation, spin, swing, torsion, tumble, turn, turning, twist, veer, wheel, whirligig, winding), döngü. (various references) | |
Turkmen | petle (r) (stitch), halka (environment, ring). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | робити петлю, закріпляти петлею, петля (button hole, kink, necklace, noose, ply, stitch, tag, twitch). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vòng (circular, collet, pendant, revolution, round), thòng lọng, mạch, cái móc (catch, caught, clasp, crook, detent, fastener, fastening, guard-chain, hanger, hook), cái khâu. (various references) | |
Welsh | dolennu (meander, wind), dolen (bot, handle, link, ring). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | gur. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | hapsis. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ansa, ansae, ansam, ansas. (various references) |
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