Loop \Loop\ (l[=oo]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Looped} (l[=oo]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Looping}.] To make a loop of or in; to fasten with a loop or loops; -- often with up; as, to loop a string; to loop up a curtain.
Loop \Loop\ (l[=oo]p), n. [G. luppe an iron lump. Cf. {Looping}.] (Iron Works) A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls. [Written also {loup}.]
Loop \Loop\, n. [Cf. Ir. & Gael. lub loop, noose, fold, thong, bend, lub to bend, incline.] 1. A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight.
That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop To hang a doubt on. --Shak.
2. A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence The eye of Reason may pry in upon us. --Shak.
3. A curve of any kind in the form of a loop.
4. (Telegraphy) A wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts.
5. (Acoustics) The portion of a vibrating string, air column, etc., between two nodes; -- called also {ventral segment}.
{Loop knot}, a single knot tied in a doubled cord, etc. so as to leave a loop beyond the knot. See Illust. of {Knot}.
Inside the Yamanote train line, which forms a loop in the city's center, two-story wooden houses are being torn down and replaced by expensive condominiums.
But there was no loop."
Although the bridge is back in the commute loop, workbound motorists aren't going to have much of a picnic on Monday because important freeway connections on both sides of the bay are still knocked out.
Those creditors have expressed displeasure with MCC Chairman Peter Laister, who now appears to have been removed from the management loop.
The cockpit tape, on a loop that records over itself after about a half-hour, covers only the final 33 minutes and 34 seconds of the flight.
Automatic defrosting systems can be thrown for a loop when the surrounding, or ambient, temperature drops below 60 F, according to the Major Appliance Consumer Action Panel.
"From collection to recycling, we'll now have a closed loop," Aronhalt said.
'But she is going into the business of mothering,' and has decided to 'take herself out of the loop, as George Bush would say.' The worry now is that Dow Jones will replace Abelson with a Wall Street Journal editor.
Caltech researchers identified the exact part of that protein to which the AIDS virus binds, and determined that it looks like a loop protruding from the protein.
Mr. Kaifu wants a photo opportunity with the American president as soon as possible in order to show his domestic constituency that Japan is still in the loop.
And unlike Ailes, an inner-circle strategist for Bush from the outset, no Democratic media expert was let into the Dukakis loop.
On the Iran-Contra scandal, Mr. Bush has contended that he was "out of the loop" and thus unaware both of the policy of trading arms for hostages and the diversion of funds to the Nicaraguan Contras.
Last month at El Toro, Calif., a Marine Corps pilot was severely injured when his Hornet fighter crashed during a demonstration loop.
When you shake the paper, visually controlled corrective eye movements are too slow to compensate. Head rotation is detected by a part of the vestibular organ called the semicircular canal, a loop of fluid-filled tubing embedded in the skull bone.
OTC will be the biggest shareholder in the South Pacific network, which will join an optical-fiber network in the North Pacific forming a loop connecting the Pacific rim nations.
Tallon said. "I'm saying, bring in the FBI and see if anyone else gets caught in the loop." Ursula Nordstrom, a former publisher and editor in chief of juvenile books at Harper & Row, died Tuesday of ovarian cancer at age 78.
Large jetliners already are required to have the recorders, which provide information about an aircraft's performance and provide a 30-minute loop tape of conversation in the cockpit.
Rescue workers had to move the train slowly to the bottom of the loop to remove the passengers, Cashman said.
Devine said Hulnick is a full-time agency officer and the CIA's coordinator for academic affairs, but Hulnick is "not exactly in the loop" regarding the Iran-Contra affair.
The tape, which is on a loop that records over itself after about 30 minutes, covered noises beginning about 10 minutes after the airliner's tail engine failed, shooting debris that cut off the plane's hydraulic control system.
Known as ADSL (asymetric digital subscriber loop), the new technology operates at up to 6 megabits over an existing copper phone line.
He has said "mistakes were made," but claimed he was "out of the loop" in making major policy decisions.
Most carpets begin with a loop pile, then are varied by cutting (or not cutting) the pile.
Imagine how that kid is going to be thrown for a loop when he finds out his uncle is really his father."
Within five years BT could have a fibre network covering the whole local loop in most large cities. Although they currently have only about 450,000 broadband subscribers, cable TV companies are relaxed about BT's dish ambitions.
Police said a girl told them she saw Levison stretch a cable from a light standard on the bridge and loop it through a chainlink fence on the opposite side, leaving it hanging approximately four feet off the pavement.
The storm, moving in a clockwise loop, could make a complete circle in the Caribbean if it stays together long enough to meet with a big funnel trough located in the Gulf of Mexico, forecaster Bob Case said.
A broken coupling on a roller coaster made the ride screech to a halt in the middle of a loop and trapped 20 people upside down for more than an hour, less than a week after it passed an inspection, an official said Sunday.
Mr. Gross was 15.76 seconds behind, including one lap on the 150-meter penalty loop for missing one target from the standing position.