Hoop vs Cincture - What's the difference?
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A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
(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
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.
(plural) The game of basketball.
A hoop earring.
(Australia, metonym, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse''.“
To bind or fasten using a hoop.
To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
(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.
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An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing
A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment
* 1988, (Alan Hollinghurst), (The Swimming Pool Library) , Penguin Books (1988), page 161
(architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
to girdle, circle or surround
Hoop is a related term of cincture.
As nouns the difference between hoop and cincture
is that hoop is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc while cincture is an enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing.As a verb cincture is
to girdle, circle or surround.hoop
English
(wikipedia hoop)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hoop, hoope, from (etyl) ). More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- the cheese hoop , or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese
- stiff with hoops , and armed with ribs of whale
- (Halliwell)
hoop”, entry in 1989 , Joan Hughes, ''Australian Words and Their Origins , page 261.
Derived terms
* hula hoop * jump through hoopsVerb
(en verb)- to hoop a barrel or puncheon
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* hooping cough (Webster 1913)Anagrams
*References
cincture
English
Noun
(en noun)- In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.
