| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Being patterned.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being tinned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being barrelled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being forked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being sleeved. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being belted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being striped or stripy. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being curved, arched or vaulted.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb | 1. Of Hoop.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb hoop.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (hoop) | 1. Bind or fasten with a hoop; "hoop vats".[Wordnet]. 2. To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.[Websters]. 3. To clasp; to encircle; to surround.[Websters]. 4. To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.[Websters]. 5. To whoop, as in whooping cough.[Websters]. 6. To drive or follow with a shout.[Websters]. 7. To call by a shout or peculiar cry.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: hooping, hooped, hoops, hooper, hoopers, hoopingly and hoopedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "HOOPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Specialty Definition: hoop
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A band of wood or metal used to confine the staves of casks,tubs, &c. or for other similar purposes. Wooden hoops are usually made by splitting an oak or hickory sapling into two parts; but sometimes they are made of thin splints and of other species of wood.. | 2: [Noun] A piece of whalebone in the form of a circle or ellipsis, used formerly by females to extend their petticoats; a farthingale.. | 3: [Noun] Something resembling a hoop; a ring; any thing circular.. | 4: [Verb] To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.. | 5: [Verb] To clasp; to encircle; to surround.. | 6: [Verb] to shout; to utter a loud cry, or a particular sound by way of call or pursuit.. | 7: [Verb] To drive with a shout or outcry.. | 8: [Verb] To call by a shout or hoop.. | 9: [Noun] A shout; also, a measure, equal to a peck.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Antiquities | Hoop. See Trochus. (references) | ||
| Building & Civil Engineering | Hoops are binders in the form of rings (other than helical) round the main reinforcement in columns and piles. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Dream Interpretation | To dream of a hoop, foretells you will form influential friendships. Many will seek counsel of you. To jump through, or see others jumping through hoops, denotes you will have discouraging outlooks, but you will overcome them with decisive victory. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Food & Agriculture | Band of iron encircling a cask and holding the staves in position. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Geography | Hoop is geographically located in Namibia. Its features include a farmstead (the buildings and adjacent service areas of a farm). Its geographic coordinates are 23.933333 degrees South latitude and 19.3 degrees East longitude. (references) | ||
| Library Science | A large pair of wooden rings sized so that one fits inside the other, which is sometimes used instead of a frame to keep the layers of a quilt taut and even during the quilting process. A hoop is more portable than a quilt frame. It is similar to an embroidery hoop, although larger. (references) | ||
| Slang in 1811 | HOOP. To run the hoop; an ancient marine custom. Four or more boys having their left hands tied fast to an iron hoop, and each of them a rope, called a nettle, in their right, being naked to the waist, wait the signal to begin: this being made by a stroke. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Transportation | The narrower widths of lighter gauge flat rolled steels. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (plural) The game of basketball. (references) | 2: [Noun] A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel. (references) | 3: [Noun] A hoop earring. (references) | 4: [Verb] To fasten using a hoop. (references) |
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Common Expressions: hoop
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Basketball hoop | Horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Embroidery hoop | A frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Flat hoop | A wooden hoop dressed flat on both sides. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Gathering hoop | A hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Grace hoop | A hoop used in playing graces. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Half-round hoop | A wooden hoop left rounding and undressed on the outside. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Hoop (rhythmic gymnastics) | Hoop (Rhythmic Gymnastics) may be plastic or wood and is around 80-90cms in diameter. Fundamental requirements include rotation around the hand or body and rolling. Swings, circles, figures of eight, throws, passes through and over the hoop are other elements which should be included. (references) | ||
| Hoop ash | Vigorous spreading North American tree having dark brown heavy wood; leaves turn gold in autumn. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Hoop cheese | Hoop Cheese is a firm, dry cottage cheese, similar to farmer’s cheese in that most of the liquid has been pressed out. It is different from farmer’s cheese in that farmer’s cheese is made with milk, cream and salt, while hoop cheese is made from milk alone. (references) | ||
| Hoop iron | Iron in thin narrow strips, used for making hoops. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Hoop lock | The fastening for uniting the ends of wooden hoops by notching and interlocking them. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Hoop pine | Pine of Australia and New Guinea; yields a valuable light even-textured wood. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Hoop rolling | Child's game in which a large hoop, made of wood, metal or plastic, is propelled by means of a rolling stick. Skilled players can keep the hoop upright for lengthy periods of time and can do various tricks. Able hoop rollers have created circus acts around their skill. (references) | ||
| Hoop skirt | A framework of hoops for expanding the skirts of a woman's dress; -- called also hoop petticoat . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Hoop skirt | A hoop skirt or hoopskirt is a women's undergarment worn in various periods to hold the skirt extended into a fashionable shape. (references) | ||
| Hoop snake | 1: (Zo["o]l.), a harmless snake of the Southern United States (Abaster erythrogrammus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it curves itself into a hoop, taking its tail into its mouth, and rolls along with great velocity. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: Any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Hoop snake | The hoop snake is a legendary creature of the United States. Its distinguishing feature is that it can grasp its tail in its jaws and roll after its prey like a wheel, thus looking somewhat like the ouroboros of Greek mythology. The best way to save yourself is to jump through the hoop to confuse it. (references) | ||
| Hoop stress | Hoop stress is mechanical stress applied in a direction perpendicular to the radius of the item in question. Along with axial stress and radial stress, it is a component of the stress tensor in cylindrical coordinates. (references) | ||
| Hoop tree | (Bot.), a small West Indian tree (Melia sempervirens), of the Mahogany family. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Hula hoop | The hula hoop is a toy hoop that promotes physical activity. Today it is often made of plastic and twirled around the waist or limbs. (references) | ||
| Jaap de Hoop Scheffer | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (born April 3, 1948) is the 11th NATO Secretary General and a Dutch politician. (references) | ||
| Mast hoop | One of a number of hoops attached to the fore edge of a boom sail, which slip on the mast as the sail is raised or lowered; also, one of the iron hoops used in making a made mast. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: HOOPED
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hooped Pots | Literature | Drinking pots at one time were made with hoops, that when two or more drank from the same tankard no one of them should take more than his share. Jack Cade promises his followers that "seven half-penny loaves shall be sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer." (Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., iv. 2.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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