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Stripe vs Hoop - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between stripe and hoop

is that stripe is to mark with stripes while hoop is to clasp; to encircle; to surround.

stripe

English

(wikipedia stripe)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long, straight region of a single colour.
  • (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
  • (informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
    • persons of the same political stripe
  • A long narrow mark left by striking with a lash or rod; by extension, such a stroke.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 3
    • Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed.
  • * Thomson
    • Cruelty marked him with inglorious stripes .
  • * 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
    • Thou most lying slave, / Whom stripes may move, not kindness!
  • (weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.

    • Derived terms

    * of the same stripe * show one's true stripes * true stripes

    Verb

    (strip)
  • To mark with stripes.
  • (computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.

    • Related terms

    * striped * stripy * Stars and Stripes * striper * candy striper * restripe

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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)

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