Hoop vs Cordon - 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.
(archaic) A ribbon normally worn diagonally across the chest as a decoration or insignia of rank etc.
A line of people or things placed around an area to enclose or protect it.
(cricket) The arc of fielders on the off side, behind the batsman - the slips and gully.
(botany) A woody plant, such as a fruit tree, pruned and trained to grow as a single stem on a support.
Hoop is a related term of cordon.
As nouns the difference between hoop and cordon
is that hoop is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc while cordon is lace, string.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)