hoop

Definition of hoop in English English dictionary: someone connected with Queens Park Rangers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc; (plural) The game of basketball; A hoop earring; A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel; To fasten using a hoop; {v} to bind or secure with hoops, to shout; {n} a circle of wood or iron, an ornament; Hoop or Tyre mounted within a frame structure Aperture diameter 1ft 6in minimum Aperture centre from the ground 3ft The height of the hoop should not be lowered The frame and fixtures must be substantial or secured in such a way that dogs cannot knock the obstacle over from either direction Where tyres/hoops are mounted within a frame structure the mechanism securing the tyre should be covered by a suitable padding Photo: Alan Score; The game of basketball; Device made from wood, plastic or steel with which fabric is gripped tightly between an inner ring and outer ring and attached to the machine's pantograph Machine hoops are designed to push the fabric to the bottom of the inner ring and hold it against the machine bed for embroidering Also called a frame; a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling; "there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse"; An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks; The hoopoe; Basket or rim Also slang for playing basketball; Ply laid onto a mandrel at a 90° angle; Wood, plastic or steel device used to tightly grip the fabric and stabilizer between an inner and outer ring Attaches to machine's frame Designed to hold fabric taut against the machine bed for embroidery; To clasp; to encircle; to surround; A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; used chiefly in the plural; To call by a shout or peculiar cry; To drive or follow with a shout; A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese; To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon; Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops; A hoop is a large ring made of wood, metal, or plastic; To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout; {f} encircle, surround; make a basket; make a slam dunk (Basketball); bind or fasten with a hoop; "hoop vats"; {i} circular band made from metal or other stiff material; object which has a circular or ring-like shape; If someone makes you jump through hoops, they make you do lots of difficult or boring things in order to please them or achieve something. He had the duty receptionist almost jumping through hoops for him. But to no avail; A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel; circular framework used to expand woman's skirt (aka crinoline); horizontal hoop with a net through which players try to throw the basketball; — Device made from wood, plastic or steel with which fabric is gripped tightly between an inner ring and an outer ring and attached to the machine's pantograph Machine hoops are designed to push the fabric to the bottom of the inner ring and hold it against the machine bed for embroidering; The rim or basket; A device made from wood, plastic or steel with which fabric is gripped tightly between an inner ring and an outer ring and attached to the machine's pantograph Without a hoop fabrics can not be embroidered; To whoop, as in whooping cough; a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt; A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough; A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc; a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt bind or fasten with a hoop; "hoop vats; A section of the gun barrel Older guns needed as many as a dozen or more castings to obtain the desired length and/or thickness These were then joined together by "locking rings" to make one continuous barrel; a small arch used as croquet equipment
hoop pine: Araucaria cunninghamii, a tree of eastern Australia and New Guinea
hoop skirt: A women's undergarment worn in various historical periods to hold the skirt extended into a fashionable shape, typically consisting of a fabric petticoat with casings to hold a stiffening material, variously rope, osiers, whalebone, steel, or nylon
hoop snake: A mythical creature of the United States and Australia, a snake that grasps its tail in its jaws and thereby rolls after its prey like a wheel
hoop snakes: plural form of hoop snake
hoop pine: pine of Australia and New Guinea; yields a valuable light even-textured wood
hoop skirt: A long full skirt belled out with a series of connected circular supports
hoop skirt: petticoat that has a rigid hoop in it and causes a skirt to fall in a bell-like shape
hoop snake: Any of several snakes, such as the mud snake, said to grasp the tail in the mouth and move with a rolling, hooplike motion
hoop snake: any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop
hoop stress: The tensile stress acting on the pipe along the circumferential direction of the pipe wall when the pipe contains liquid or gas
hoop stress: Circumferential stress in a cylindrically shaped part as a result of internal or external pressure
hoop stress: the tensile stress, usually in pounds per square inch (psi), in the circumferential orientation in the wall of the pipe when the pipe contains a gas or liquid under pressure
hoop stress: – The force per unit area in the wall of a pipe or tank in the circumferential orientation due to internal hydrostatic pressure
hoop stress: The circumferential stress in a material or cylindrical form subjected to internal or external pressure
hoopla hoop: type hoop that one puts around the waist and spins without allowing it to fall to the ground
hoola hoop: type of toy, hoop that one puts around the waist and spins without allowing it to fall to the ground
basketball hoop: The hoop, holding a string net, through which the basketball must be placed to score
cock-a-hoop: Exultant, very happy, triumphant
I have to say I felt pretty cock-a-hoop straight after my epidural but, some hours later, my head felt as though someone large and heavy had been sitting on it.
hooper: Supporter and/or member of Shamrock Rovers football club
hooper: One who applies hoops to casks or tubs
hoops: plural form of hoop
hoops: Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoop
hula hoop: A toy in the form of a large hoop which is twirled around various parts of the body, especially the waist
hula-hoop: Attributive form of hula hoop
hula-hoop expert.
shoot hoop: (deyim) To play basketball, particularly in a casual way
I like to shoot hoops after work.
cock-a-hoop: exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"
cock-a-hoop: If you are cock-a-hoop, you are extremely pleased about something that you have done. pleased and excited about something, especially something you have done cock-a-hoop at/about/over (set the cock on the hoop (16-17 centuries))
cock-a-hoop: joyfully, happily, gladly, cheerfully
hooped: past of hoop
hooped: If something is hooped, it is decorated with hoops or horizontal stripes, or it contains hoops as part of its structure. a hooped arbour of iron rods. red hooped sleeves. in the shape of a hoop, or containing something in the shape of a hoop
hooper: One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper
hooper: The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk
hooper: {i} cooper, person who makes and repairs wooden barrels, person who makes or puts hoops on barrels; (Zoology) whistling wild swan of Europe
hooping: present participle of hoop
hoops: plural of hoop
hoops: {i} basketball game (Slang)
hoops: third-person singular of hoop
hoops: basketball. Always plural
hoops: a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the basketball through an elevated horizontal hoop
hula-hoop: plaything consisting of a tubular plastic hoop for swinging around the hips

Turkish - English

Definition of hoop in Turkish English dictionary

(Bilgisayar) oops

Oops, I posted the message to the wrong newsgroup. - Hoop, mesajı yanlış haber grubuna gönderdim.

Oops, I farted again! - Hoop, ben yine gaz çıkardım!

(Argo) cool it

hoop

Turkish pronunciation

hup

Synonyms

loop, band, circlet, circle, basket, net, rim

Pronunciation

/ˈho͞op/ /ˈhuːp/

Etymology

[ 'hüp also 'hup ] (noun.) 12th century. From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English hōp (“mound, raised land", in combination, also "circular object”), from Proto-Germanic *hōpan (“bend, bow, arch”) (compare Dutch hoep), from Proto-Indo-European *kāb- (“to bend”) (compare Lithuanian kabė (“hook”), Old Church Slavic (kǫpŭ, “hill, island”)). More at camp.