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Definition: Sloop |
SloopNoun1. A sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sloop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Sloop "Parallel Programming in a Virtual Object Space", S. Lucco, SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):26-34 (OOPSLA '87) (Dec 1987). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A sloop is the name of a sail-plan of a sailing ship that has been optimized for upwind sailing. The sail plan has a single mast, a forward triangular staysail called a jib, and a rear triangular mainsail controlled by a boom. Sloops are very popular with amateur sailors and yachtsmen, and for racing. The rig is simple, at least in its basic form yet, when tuned properly, maneuverable and fast.
It is, however, clear that the most difficult direction to sail a (sailing) ship is upwind. Sailing to windward (known as sailing close-hauled) requires some specific design features. Firstly, to make a good upwind sailing ship, the sail must be as vertical as possible to maximise the wind's energy in the sails.
Two forces act on a sailing ship to deviate it from vertical. Firstly, the weight of the rig itself will tend to pull the sailboat over in one direction the moment the ship departs from the vertical. Secondly, the force of the wind acting on the sails makes the mast behave like a lever. The first effect can be counteracted by reducing the weight of the rig itself. Therefore, the sloop rig weighs quite a bit less than other rigs because its simple design requires fewer ropes and sails.
In terms of counteracting the shear introduced by the wind blowing against the sails, a keel is attached to the hull of the boat. A particular sail-plan will have an optimal set of keel shapes and sizes which will reduce the effect of the wind.
When sailing upwind, it is also important to minimize the drag of the wind on the sail and rig. A major cause of drag of the sail is a vortex of turbulent air generated by the top of the mast and sail. Secondary causes are non-optimal aerodynamic shapes of masts, stays and control lines. The sloop minimizes the tip-vortex's drag by making the sail high and narrow, maximizing the amount of sail for the same sized tip-vortex compared to a square-rigged or gaff-rigged ship. Also, the simplicity of the rig reduces the drag induced by control lines, masts and booms.
Sloops in their modern form were developed by the French to run British blockades.
The term sloop referred to boats with different rigs and up to 3 masts until 17. century.
They were later adapted to pilot boats (small ships that take a pilot out to a ship to guide it into a harbor). Later still, they were adapted to smaller revenue cutters, exemplified by the Bluenose.
In the 1920s, racing sloops were developed into extremes in the amount of sail they would carry. The "J-boats" became infamous for capsizing, although in good weather they were very fast. These excesses led racing authorities to establish rules for racing yachts, intended to make them fully seaworthy.
The state of the art in racing sloops today may be seen in the 12-meter yachts sailed in the America's Cup competition. The name derives from the formula used to establish if a yacht conforms to the rules for its design-class.
Rationale behind the sloop rig
When attempting to build an efficient ship, an important consideration must be kept in mind. This is the question of whether the ship will need to sail predominantly down-wind (i.e. with the wind behind the boat) or up-wind (with the wind blowing into the boat from the prow). Sloop rigs are specifically designed to optimise upwind sailing.Sails carried
To maximize the amount of sail carried, the classical sloop may use a bowsprit, which is essentially a fixed boom that projects from the front of the boat. For downwind sailing, the staysail may be replaced (or sometimes supplemented) by a spinnaker or genaker of larger sail area. The jib foresail, which does not overlap the mast, may be replaced by a Genoa jib, which overlaps the mast by up to 50%, the mainsail and Genoa thus forming an efficient double wing.History
See also
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sloop."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Man-of-war; destroyer; submarine; minesweeper; torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer; patrol torpedo boat, PT boat; torpedo-catcher, war castle, H.M.S.; battleship, battle wagon, dreadnought, line of battle ship, ship of the line; aircraft carrier, carrier. flattop; helicopter carrier; missile platform, missile boat; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; privateer. |
Ship | Ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sloop |
| English words defined with "sloop": Boyer ♦ cutter ♦ fishing smack, Fore-and-aft rigged, Frigatoon ♦ knockabout ♦ Pungy ♦ raceabout ♦ smack. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sloop": Shallop. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sloop" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (demolition), French (sloop), Italian (sloop). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Overloop Is sloop (1974) | |
Song Titles | Sloop John B. (performing artist: The Beach Boys) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Wiredrag - arrangement of deck of guide boat Deck of contract sloop NENA A. ROWLAND Wiredrag party of N. H. Heck. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Angling with poles for mackerel from an old Noank, Connecticut, sloop Drawing by H. W. Elliott and Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Sloops cruising for fish One sloop is for crew to live on and to tow seine-boats The others to carry fish to the factory. From a sketch by Capt. B. F. Conklin. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Halftone reproduction of a wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett, circa 1900, depicting the ship after her 1855-56 conversion from a frigate to a sloop of war. Credit: NAVY. |
 | French warships off Nha Trang during Operation "Meknes and Atlas", 15-19 April 1953. The carrier La Fayette is at right. Colonial sloop in center may be Savorgnan de Brazza. The two aircraft tenders at left are Paul Goffeny and Commandant Robert Giraud. Credit: NAVY. |  | Sketch signed "W.T. Smith, Havana, March 1863", depicting Sonoma in Bermuda harbor during late 1862 or early 1863. The British sloop Desperate is in the left distance, and the British merchantman (possibly blockade runner?) Gladiator is in the left center. The original sketch was in colors. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Naval architecture drawing for a vessel ("Stern of the Sloop of War Hornet"). Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Arrival of the United States steam sloop Niagara at Jeddo, Japan, with the Japanese embassadors [sic] on board, November 10, 1860. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Horn; boat; harbor; yacht; baiter; baitskiff; barge; bark; bateau; canoe; catamaran; craft; dinghy; dory; dragger; highliner; hulk; ketch; launch; lifeboat; mackinaw; pointer; raft; rodney; sailboat; schooner; scow; shallop; ship; skiff; sloop; steamboat. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | My men were sent by an equal division into both the pirate ships, and my sloop new manned. |
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| "Sloop" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.80% of the time. "Sloop" is used about 41 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) | 87.8% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.76% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.44% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "sloop" 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 |
| Sloop | Last name | 400 | 22,622 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "sloop": sloop of war. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "sloop": ship-sloop. | |
| 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 |
sloop | 89 | caravan sloop | 4 |
b john sloop | 31 | sloop war | 4 |
b john lyrics sloop | 13 | scooter sloop | 3 |
auto sloop | 10 | 32 contessa sloop | 3 |
friendship sloop | 9 | font sloop | 3 |
clearwater sloop | 7 | motoren sloop | 3 |
sloop volvo | 5 | b beach boy john sloop | 3 |
boat sail sloop | 5 | sloop steel | 3 |
32 contessa sale sloop | 5 | john m sloop | 2 |
sloop bermuda | 5 | script sloop | 2 |
john sloop | 4 | font script sloop | 2 |
providence sloop | 4 | clearwater hudson river sloop | 2 |
gebouw sloop | 4 | friendship sale sloop | 2 |
marriage sloop | 4 | onderdelen sloop | 2 |
lawley sloop | 4 | motor sloop | 2 |
gebouwen sloop | 4 | ||
motor sloop | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "sloop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | anije rojtare, anije njëdirekëshe (smack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | السلوب مركب شراعي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | малък военен кораб (gunboat, pocket battleship), едномачтов платноход. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | šalupa (shallop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | slup (creep, dundee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sloep (boat, shallop, ship's boat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | ŝalupo (boat, shallop, ship's boat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | stórbátur (boat, shallop, ship's boat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کرجی یک دگلی قدیمی , قایق جنگی , ارابه مخصوص حمل الوار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sluuppi, pursi (bark, barque, boat, craft, shallop, ship's boat, vessel, yacht). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sloop. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schaluppe (boat, shallop, ship's boat), slup. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κότερο (cutter, yacht), καΰκι (caique), σλούπ, πλοίο με ένα ιστόν. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szlúp, naszád (pinnace), lapos fenekű segédhajó, lapos fenekű bárka, őrhajó, ágyúnaszád (gunboat, gun-boat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sloop, scialuppa (boat, jolly boat, launch, pinnace, shallop, yawl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | scoadey (smack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oopslay cuter, corveta (corvette), aviso (admonishment, admonition, advice, alarm, announcement, aviso, beacon, buoy, caution, circular, communication, hint, intimation, memento, monition, notice, notification, premonition, signal, threat, warning). (various references) шлюп (shallop). (various references) slup. (various references) balandra (yacht). (various references) slup (barge, boat, galley, pinnace, shallop, ship's boat). (various references) เรือใบที่มีเสากระโ"งเรือเสาเ"ียว. (various references) küçük yelkenli (Dandy, Jigger, shallop), şalopa (longboat, shallop). (various references) шлюп (shallop). (various references) thuyền nhỏ một bu"m t u tuần tra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | actuariola. (various references) |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | sloep. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | chalupe. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sloop": sloops. (additional references) | |
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"Sloop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blooop, bloop, gloop, skopo, sloap, slood, sloof, sloon, sloopy, sloor, sloot, slopp, slorp, sloup, sloupe, slovo, slup, solom, soloq. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sloop" (pronounced sluw"p) |
| 3 | -l uw" p | loop, Loup, Loupe. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: loops, polos, pools, spool. | |
| Words within the letters "l-o-o-p-s" | |
-1 letter: loop, loos, lops, oops, polo, pols, pool, slop, solo. | |
-2 letters: loo, lop, ops, pol, sol, sop. | |
-3 letters: lo, op, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-o-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: bloops, orlops, podsol, polios, saloop, sloops, spools. | |
+2 letters: apollos, apologs, collops, coplots, dollops, hooplas, lollops, lookups, loopers, plosion, podsols, podzols, poloist, pomelos, poodles, prologs, saloops, scollop, spooled, topsoil. | |
+3 letters: bloopers, carpools, cesspool, complots, copilots, cowflops, cowplops, foolscap, goalpost, gossypol, hoopless, lampoons, liposome, loopiest, lycopods, omphalos, outplods, outplots, outpolls, paleosol, palookas, piccolos, planosol, platoons, pleopods, plosions, plowboys, plywoods, podsolic, polarons, pollocks, poloists, polycots, polygons, polyomas, polypods, polypous, polysome, poolside, populous, porously, posology, posthole, postoral, potboils, potholes, precools, prolongs, propolis, proposal, prosomal, rollmops, scollops, scoopful, sesspool, slopwork, slowpoke, snoopily, snowplow, spookily, spooling, spoonful, spoonily, stolport, topsoils, trollops, vanpools, whooplas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 6F 6F 70 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. --- --- .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01101111 01101111 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l o o p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 006F 006F 0070 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5378818182 |
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