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Zoop vs Loop - What's the difference?

zoop | loop |

As an interjection zoop

is .

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.

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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    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

    See also

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