To form into a loop or loops: as, to loop a cord.
To fasten or secure with a loop or loops: as, to loop up a curtain.
To furnish with a loop or loops: as, to loop a cloak.
To form a loop.
To move, as the larvæ of certain moths, by forming loops.
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A narrow window; any small, narrow aperture; specifically, in medieval fortification, a small aperture for observing the enemy, for the discharge of arrows or ordnance, or to admit light; a loophole.
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A gap in the paling of a park, made for the convenience of the deer.
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A removable fence-panel made of parallel wooden bars, generally united by transverse braces or crosspieces, used as a substitute for an ordinary fence-gate.
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See loupe.
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In physical, that region, in a standing wave system, for which the amplitude of vibration is a maximum: opposed to node, which is the region of zero amplitude.
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A folding or doubling of a string, lace, cord, chain, etc., or a short piece doubled and secured to something at each end.
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Something resembling a loop, as the bend of a river; a link; a crook.
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In crochet, knitting, and similar kinds of fancy work, same as stitch.
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A hinge of a door.
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In railroad and telegraph systems, a branch line leaving the main line at any point and joining it again at some other point; a looping line, as a branch wire carried over to a side station and back.
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In the theory of Riemann's surfaces, a line running from any point to a branchpoint, then around that branch-point in an infinitesimal circle, and back to the original point by the same path.
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A part of a curve limited by a crunode.
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The ear of a vessel, as a stoneware jar, when approximately of the form of a half-ring projecting from the side or lip.
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In gunnery, a small fron ring in the barrel of a gun.
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The small ring at the tip of a fishing-rod through which the line passes.
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In anatomy, a looped vessel or fiber; especially, a nerve-loop.
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In brachiopods, the folding of the brachial appendages.
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In acoustics, the part of a vibrating musical string (see sonometer), or, as in an organ-pipe, of a column of air, where the amplitude of vibration is at its maximum. See node.
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In mech., a slotted bar or ring at the side of any piece of machinery, designed to limit or control the movement of another part.
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A knot or bur, often of great size, occurring on walnut, maple, oak, and some other trees.