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# loop

noun (a loop, loops); verb (loop, loops, looped, looping)

«loop» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A loop is a shape like a circle made by a line, string or path that bends round and crosses or joins itself. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loop/#m1)
2. To loop means to make a loop or move in a loop. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loop/#m2)
3. In computing, a loop is a set of instructions that repeats. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loop/#m3)
4. «In the loop» means knowing what is going on. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loop/#m4)

### In the lessons

In computing lessons (Scratch, coding), a loop repeats instructions, like «repeat 4 times: move 10, turn 90» to draw a square; a «forever» loop never stops. In science, an electric circuit must be a complete loop for the bulb to light. In everyday life you make loops to tie shoelaces; roller coasters do loops. Phrases: «in a loop», «loop the loop», «keep someone in the loop», «out of the loop», «on a loop».

### Examples

- Make a loop with the lace and wrap the other end around it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loop/#x1)
- The roller coaster did a loop-the-loop. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loop/#x2)
- Use a loop to repeat the code ten times. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loop/#x3)
- The circuit must be a complete loop. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loop/#x4)
- The song played on a loop all day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loop/#x5)
- The path makes a loop around the lake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loop/#x6)
- Keep me in the loop about the party plans. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loop/#x7)
- The plane looped through the sky. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loop/#x8)
- The three sisters then tied the heroes with every kind of loop and twist and knot that could be thought of. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loop/#x9)

### Note

Countable: loops. In coding, a loop with no way to stop is an «infinite loop» and may freeze a program. In maths, «repeat 4 times» in a loop means the same steps happen 4 times, so multiply: 4 × 90° = 360° for a full turn.

## In Jewish tradition

The loops are the blue loops on the edges of the curtains of the Tabernacle. Clasps joined them, making the tent one piece.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the joining of many curtains into one Tabernacle as a sign of unity, and it holds that the Tabernacle is a model for the whole world.

### Examples

- And thou shalt make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. (Torah EXO.26.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/loop/#x1)
- Fifty loops made he in the one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite one to another. (Torah EXO.36.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/loop/#x2)
- Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one to another. (Torah EXO.26.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/loop/#x3)

### Note

Countable: loops. In coding, a loop with no way to stop is an «infinite loop» and may freeze a program. In maths, «repeat 4 times» in a loop means the same steps happen 4 times, so multiply: 4 × 90° = 360° for a full turn.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «loop» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loop/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«loop» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/loop.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «loop» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/loop/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«loop» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/loop.html) on Mova free.