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Loop vs Noodly - What's the difference?

loop | noodly |

As a noun loop

is a length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.

As a verb loop

is to form something into a loop.

As an adjective noodly is

of or pertaining to noodles.

loop

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
    • Arches, loops , and whorls are patterns found in fingerprints.
  • 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.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence / The eye of Reason may pry in upon us.
  • (mass of iron).

    • Derived terms

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
    • The program loops until the user presses a key.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=February 4 , author=Gareth Roberts , title=Wales 19-26 England , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The outstanding Tom Palmer won a line-out and then charged into the heart of the Welsh defence, scrum-half Ben Youngs moved the ball swiftly right and Cueto's looping pass saw Ashton benefit from a huge overlap to again run in untouched.}}

    Derived terms

    * loop in * loop the loop

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    noodly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of or pertaining to noodles
  • (music) loopy, containg intertwined loops
  • * {{quote-news, year=1998, date=January 16, author=John Corbett, title=Cradle of Electronica, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=He felt the pangs intensifying, as if the noodly , repetitive sounds were some lost language he'd known but forgotten, a dialect discarded or repressed. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2002, date=May 17, author=Peter Margasak, title=Cornershop, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Both of those albums contained lots of what's charitably called filler--in the form of noodly hip-hop-inspired loops that never went anywhere--and it took the band five years to release the new Handcream for a Generation (Wiija/Beggars Banquet). }}
  • floppy, droopy
  • * {{quote-news, year=2006, date=May 12, author=Liz Armstrong, Heather Kenny, title=Big Imagination, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=A lot of her clothes move strangely: one dress has an exaggerated, uneven bustle, upon which is layered a long skirt made of elastic, resulting in a motion that Glaum-Lathbury describes as "wiggly and noodly ." }}