Loop and Web

noun

• Fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines.
  • synonyms: cringle, eyelet, grommet, grummet
• Anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself. )
• Computer science. ( a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated)
  • usage: "the solution took hundreds of iterations"
  • synonyms: iteration
• An inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan. )
  • usage: "he's no longer in the loop"
• The basic pattern of the human fingerprint.
• A computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied.
• The topology of a network whose components are serially connected in such a way that the last component is connected to the first component.
  • synonyms: loop topology
• An intrauterine device in the shape of a loop.
• A complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates.
  • synonyms: closed circuit
• A flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane.
  • synonyms: loop-the-loop

verb

• Move in loops.
  • usage: "The bicycle looped around the tree"
• Make a loop in.
  • usage: "loop a rope"
  • synonyms: intertwine
• Fly loops, perform a loop.
  • usage: "the stunt pilot looped his plane"
• Wind around something in coils or loops.
  • synonyms: coil, curl
• Fasten or join with a loop.
  • usage: "He looped the watch through his belt"

• (n.) A wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts.
• (n.) A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.
• (n.) A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A curve of any kind in the form of a loop.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (n.) The portion of a vibrating string, air column, etc., between two nodes; -- called also ventral segment.

Noun

• (n.) web (an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving) "the trees cast a delicate web of shadows over the lawn"
• (n.) web, entanglement (an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim)
• (n.) vane, web (the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft)
• (n.) network, web (an interconnected system of things or people) "he owned a network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life"; "tangled in a web of cloth"
• (n.) World Wide Web, WWW, web (computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol)
• (n.) web (a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven))
• (n.) web (membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals)

Verb

• (v.) web, net (construct or form a web, as if by weaving).

• (n.) The blade of a saw.
• (n.) A weaver.
• (n.) A thin metal sheet, plate or strip, as of lead.
• (n.) The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.
• (n.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges or other parts of an object.
• (n.) The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians.
• (n.) The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.
• (n.) The blade of a sword.
• (n.) The bit of a key.
• (n.) Pterygium; -- called also webeye.
• (n.) A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
• (n.) Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.
• (n.) The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam or railroad rail.
• (n.) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
• (v.t.) To unite or surround with a web or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.
• (n.) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
• (n.) That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; especially, something woven in a loom.
• (n.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather.
• (n.) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
• (n.) The thin, sharp part of a colter.