Electric vs Loop - What's the difference?
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Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
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Being emotionally thrilling; electrifying.
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Drawing electricity from an external source; not battery-operated; corded.
(informal) .
(rare) An electric car.
(archaic) A substance or object which can be electrified; an insulator or non-conductor, like amber or glass.
A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
The opening so formed.
A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
A ring road or beltway.
An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
A complete circuit for an electric current.
(programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
(graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
(topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point.
(algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.
A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
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(mass of iron).
To form something into a loop.
To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
To fly an aircraft in a loop.
To move something in a loop.
To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
To form a loop.
To move in a loop.
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As nouns the difference between electric and loop
is that electric is (informal) while loop is a length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.As a adjective electric
is of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.As a verb loop is
to form something into a loop.electric
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Alternative forms
* electrick (chiefly archaic)Adjective
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Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
- Electric Pindar.
Derived terms
* electrical * electrical outlet * electrical engineer * electric chair * electric darts * electric eye * electric fence * electric grid (power grid) * electric shockNoun
(en-noun)References
* * *Dictionary.com definitions of electric* Niels H. de V. Heathcote (December 1967). "
The early meaning of electricity'': Some ''Pseudodoxia Epidemica'' - I". ''Annals of Science 23 (4): pp. 261-275. 1000 English basic words ----
loop
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Noun
(en noun)- Arches, loops , and whorls are patterns found in fingerprints.
- And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence / The eye of Reason may pry in upon us.
Derived terms
* * * * * * * * * * * *Verb
(en verb)- The program loops until the user presses a key.
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