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Hoop vs Binding - What's the difference?

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Hoop is a related term of binding.


As nouns the difference between hoop and binding

is that hoop is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc while binding is an item (usually rope, tape, or string) used to hold two or more things together.

As an adjective binding is

assigning something that one will be held to.

As a verb binding is

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hoop

English

(wikipedia hoop)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hoop, hoope, from (etyl) ). More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
  • A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
    • the cheese hoop , or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese
  • (mostly, in plural) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • stiff with hoops , and armed with ribs of whale
  • A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
  • (UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
    • (Halliwell)
  • (plural) The game of basketball.
  • A hoop earring.
  • (Australia, metonym, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse''.“ hoop”, entry in 1989 , Joan Hughes, ''Australian Words and Their Origins , page 261.
    • Derived terms
    * hula hoop * jump through hoops

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bind or fasten using a hoop.
    • to hoop a barrel or puncheon
  • To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
  • The hoopoe.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
  • (dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.
    • Derived terms
    * hooping cough (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    References

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    binding

    English

    (wikipedia binding)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Assigning something that one will be held to.
    • This contract is a legally binding agreement.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An item (usually rope, tape, or string) used to hold two or more things together.
  • The spine of a book where the pages are held together.
  • (sewing) A finishing on a seam or hem of a garment
  • (programming) The association of a named item with an element of a program.

    • Derived terms

    * adapter binding * data binding * dynamic binding * early binding * key binding * late binding * static binding

    Verb

    (head)
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