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Hoop vs Zoop - What's the difference?

hoop | zoop |

As a noun hoop

is a circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.

As a verb hoop

is to bind or fasten using a hoop.

As an interjection zoop is

{{cx|colloquial|lang=en}} Sound effect suggesting rapid motion.|lang=en

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)

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    References

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    zoop

    English

    Interjection

    (en-intj)
  • * 1989 , Charles A. Murray, ?Catherine Bly Cox, Apollo, the race to the moon (page 223)
    • "Let me show you how this damn stuff explodes in pure oxygen," Johnson said, and turned on the projector. Markley was "totally aghast" himself. "It just went ZOOP ! It was unbelievable. The stuff burned like you couldn't imagine."
  • * 1999 , School Library Journal (volume 45, issues 1-6, page 180)
    • On the day they play the Wild Things for the City Cup, he dons his gear (pulling on his underwear with a "zap" and his socks with a "zoop ") and heads for the field.
  • * 1999 , Popular Photography (November 1999)
    • And a bit more manly (or womanly) turn of a long tripod screw in a shallow tripod socket and, zoop , through the socket end goes the tripod screw, right into the camera works. And this can also happen with inadequate metal tripod sockets
  • * 2010 , Carolyn Godschild Miller, Soulmates
    • She'd tell me about one guy she'd kind of strung along without really meaning to, and zoop ! Some of the glamour I'd been seeing in her would just vanish. Then she started in on the next one and again—zoop! Smaller still!
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