hoop

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
2. (countable, uncountable) Any circular band or ring.
3. (countable, uncountable) A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
4. (countable, historical, uncountable) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
5. (countable, uncountable) A quart-pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
6. (UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
7. (countable, uncountable) The rim part of a basketball net.
8. (US, countable, in-plural, metonymically, uncountable) The game of basketball.
9. (countable, uncountable) A hoop earring.
10. (countable, plural-normally, uncountable) A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
11. (Australia, broadly, countable, metonymically, slang, uncountable) A jockey.
12. (countable, figuratively, plural-normally, uncountable) An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.
13. (uncountable) Hooping (manipulation of and artistic movement or dancing with a hoop).
14. (slang, uncountable) A significant amount of swing from the bowler.
15. (countable) An apparatus.
16. (countable, metonymically, uncountable) An apparatus.

Verb

1. (transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop.
2. (transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
3. (intransitive, slang) To play basketball.

Verb

1. (dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
2. (dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.

Conceptos

aro

arco

🙇

anillo

💍

cerco

💍

zuncho

fleje

canasta

🧺

cinchar

cincho

enarcar

virola

grapa

sortija

💍

Sinónimos

ring

💍

loop

➿

circle

⭕

rim

band

basketball hoop

basket

🧺

wicket

wheel

🛞

cough

whoop

race

ratchet

roller

shout

skirt

strip

tire

toggle

tyre

iron band

put a hoop on

bind a barrel with hoops

circular band

bind with hoops

socket slide

nucle us

annulus

hoop band

bind

binding

circlet

collar

cry

😢

fasten

grid

gyre

link

🔗

looping

Traducciones

cerceau

hoepel

Reifen

cercle

⭕

cerchio

⭕

cerchiare

aro

cerchione

anneau

💍

cercler

💍

circulus

⭕

Reif

cèrcol

binden

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/huːp/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: hoop

Heredado de inglés antiguo: hōp

Cognado con Saterfriesisch: Houp

Cognado con neerlandés: hoep

Cognado con nórdico antiguo: hóp

Cognado con lituano: kabė

Cognado con eslavo eclesiástico: кѫпъ

In summary

From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English hōp (“mound, raised land; in combination, circular object”), from Proto-Germanic *hōpą (“bend, bow, arch”) (compare Saterland Frisian Houp (“hoop”), Dutch hoep (“hoop”), Old Norse hóp (“bay, inlet”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kāb- (“to bend”) (compare Lithuanian kabė (“hook”), Old Church Slavonic кѫпъ (kǫpŭ, “hill, island”)). More at camp.