Synonyms of the word

loop

• n. A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
• n. The opening so formed.
• n. A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
• n. A ring road or beltway.
• n. An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
• n. A complete circuit for an electric current.
• n. (programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition…
• n. (graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
• n. (topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point.
• n. (transport) A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
• n. (algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.
• n. A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
• n. An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
• n. A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
• n. Alternative form of loup (mass of iron).
• n. (biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
• v. (transitive) To form something into a loop.
• v. (transitive) To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
• v. (transitive) To fly an aircraft in a loop.
• v. (transitive) To move something in a loop.
• v. (transitive) To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
• v. (transitive) To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
• v. (transitive) To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer…
• v. (intransitive) To form a loop.
• v. (intransitive) To move in a loop.

bind

• v. (intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
• v. (intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.
• v. (intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
• v. (intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
• v. (transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
• v. (transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
• v. (transitive) To couple.
• v. (figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other…
• v. (law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or…
• v. (law) To place under legal obligation to serve.
• v. (transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
• v. (transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action.
• v. (transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To make two or more elements stick together.
• v. (transitive, computing) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method…
• n. That which binds or ties.
• n. A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
• n. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
• n. (music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
• n. (chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break.

camp

• n. (archaic) Conflict; battle.
• n. An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
• n. An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
• n. A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
• n. A single hut or shelter.
• n. The company or body of persons encamped.
• n. A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
• n. (uncommon) Campus.
• n. (informal) A summer camp.
• n. (agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against…
• n. (Britain, obsolete) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive…
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To wrangle; argue.
• v. To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
• v. To set up a camp.
• v. (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
• v. (video games) To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning…
• n. An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
• adj. Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
• adj. (of a man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
• adj. Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.

circle

• n. (geometry) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a…
• n. A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a…
• n. Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
• n. A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
• n. Orbit.
• n. A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
• n. (cricket) A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight…
• n. (Wicca) A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the…
• n. (South Africa) A traffic circle or roundabout.
• n. (obsolete) Compass; circuit; enclosure.
• n. (astronomy) An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed…
• n. A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
• n. (logic) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive…
• n. Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
• n. A territorial division or district.
• n. (in the plural) A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
• v. (transitive) To travel around along a curved path.
• v. (transitive) To surround.
• v. (transitive) To place or mark a circle around.
• v. (intransitive) To travel in circles.

circuit

• n. The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution.
• n. The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
• n. That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
• n. The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
• n. (electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
• n. A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job.
• n. (law) The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
• n. (historical) Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including.
• n. (law) Abbreviation of circuit court.
• n. (Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
• n. By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially…
• n. (motor racing) A track on which a race in held.
• n. (obsolete) circumlocution.
• n. (Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
• v. (obsolete) To travel around.

circulate

• v. (intransitive) to move in circles or through a circuit.
• v. (transitive) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit.
• v. to move from person to person, as at a party.
• v. to spread or disseminate.
• v. to become widely known.

clique

• n. A small, exclusive group of individuals; cabal.
• n. (graph theory) A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
• n. (Internet) A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership…
• v. To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot.

coil

• n. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
• n. Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
• n. (electrical) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
• n. (figuratively) Entanglement; perplexity.
• v. To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
• v. To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
• v. To wind cylindrically or spirally.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
• n. (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.

coterie

• n. A circle of people who associate with one another.
• n. An exclusive group of people, who associate closely for a common purpose; a clique.
• n. A communal burrow of prairie dogs.

cringle

• n. (nautical) A short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to…
• n. A withe for fastening a gate.
• v. (nautical, transitive) To fasten or attach with a cringle.

curl

• n. A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.
• n. A curved stroke or shape.
• n. A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
• n. (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
• n. (weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance,…
• n. (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
• n. (agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically…
• n. (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
• v. (transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
• v. (intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
• v. (intransitive) To move in curves.
• v. (intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling.
• v. (transitive, weightlifting) To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance,…
• v. To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
• v. To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
• v. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
• v. (hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.

entwine

• v. To twist or twine around something (or one another).

eyelet

• n. An object that consists of a rim and small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments,…
• n. A shaped metal embellishment containing a hole, used in scrapbook. Eyelets are typically set by punching…
• n. Cotton fabric with small holes.

fastener

• n. something or someone that fastens.
• n. mechanically, any device that fastens; especially, a collective term for items such as screws, nuts, washers,…

fastening

• v. present participle of fasten.
• n. a hook or similar restraint used to fasten things together.

fingerprint

• n. The unique natural pattern of ridges on the tips of the fingers.
• n. The patterns left on surfaces where uncovered fingertips have touched.
• n. (computing) Unique identification for public key in asymmetric cryptosystem.
• n. A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.
• n. A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.
• v. (transitive) To take somebody's fingerprints.
• v. (transitive) To identify something uniquely by a combination of measurements.

fixing

• n. The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.
• n. (Britain, usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs,…
• n. See fixings.
• v. present participle of fix.
• v. (Southern US, slang, with infinitive) Going; preparing; ready. Only used in fixing to.

grommet

• n. A reinforced eyelet, or a small metal or plastic ring used to reinforce an eyelet.
• n. (surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding) A young or inexperienced surfer, skateboarder, or snowboarder.
• n. A circle formed of three-stranded rope.
• v. (transitive) To insert a grommet into.
• v. (transitive) To fasten using a grommet.
• v. (intransitive) To apply grommets.

grummet

• n. Alternative spelling of grommet.

holdfast

• n. Something to or by which an object can be securely fastened.
• n. (zoology) A root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile…
• n. (archaic, medicine) Actinomycosis.

ingroup

• n. (sociology) The social group that one belongs to.
• n. (systematics) In cladistics, the monophyletic group that includes all taxa of interest to the current…

intertwine

• v. (transitive) To twine something together.
• v. (intransitive) To become twined together.

iteration

• n. Recital or performance a second time; repetition.
• n. A variation or version.
• n. (computing) The use of repetition in a computer program, especially in the form of a loop.
• n. (computing) A single repetition of the code within such a repetitive process.

knit

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled…
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together.
• v. (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
• v. (intransitive) To grow together.
• v. (transitive) To combine from various elements.
• v. (intransitive) Of bones: to heal following a fracture.
• v. (transitive) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
• v. (transitive) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
• n. A knitted garment.

pack

• n. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for…
• n. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack.
• n. a multitude.
• n. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
• n. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game.
• n. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
• n. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
• n. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
• n. A group of Cub Scouts.
• n. A shook of cask staves.
• n. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
• n. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
• n. (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack,…
• n. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
• n. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
• n. (rugby) The team on the field.
• v. (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
• v. (social) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
• v. (transitive) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
• v. To move, send or carry.
• v. (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
• v. (intransitive, LGBT slang, of a drag king, transman, etc.) To wear a simulated penis or other manbulge-causing…

process

• n. A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
• n. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical…
• n. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
• n. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
• n. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate,…
• n. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
• n. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
• n. (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
• v. (transitive) To perform a particular process.
• v. (transitive) To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept…
• v. To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer…
• v. (chiefly Britain) To walk in a procession.

program

• n. A set of structured activities.
• n. A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.
• n. (broadcasting) A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.
• n. (computing) A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific…
• n. (especially in the phrase "get with the program") A particular mindset or method of doing things.
• v. (transitive) To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to…
• v. (transitive) To develop (software) by writing program code.
• v. (transitive) To put together the schedule of an event.
• v. (transitive) To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.

programme

• n. British spelling standard spelling of program.
• n. (Britain, dated, possibly nonstandard) Alternative spelling of program (A computer program).
• v. British spelling standard spelling of program.

roll

• v. (ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward…
• v. (intransitive) To turn over and over.
• v. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
• v. (transitive) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing…
• v. (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
• v. (intransitive) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
• v. (ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
• v. (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with…
• v. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
• v. (intransitive) To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
• v. (ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
• v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.
• v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.
• v. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
• v. (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one…
• v. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
• v. (US, slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
• v. (dice games, transitive, intransitive) To throw dice.
• v. (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
• v. (role-playing games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine…
• v. (computing) To generate a random number.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare…
• v. (transitive) To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.
• v. (transitive, slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To betray secrets.
• v. (slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
• v. (intransitive, of a camera) To film.
• v. (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
• v. To have a rolling aspect.
• v. (figuratively, intranstive) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
• v. To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) to move and cause an effect on someone.
• v. (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
• n. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
• n. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
• n. That which rolls; a roller.
• n. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
• n. (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on…
• n. (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
• n. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
• n. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
• n. (obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
• n. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
• n. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
• n. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
• n. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
• n. A training match for a fighting dog.

tie

• n. A knot; a fastening.
• n. A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
• n. A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black…
• n. The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
• n. A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which…
• n. A strong connection between people or groups of people; a bond.
• n. (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
• n. (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together…
• n. (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs…
• n. (sports, Britain) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
• n. (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a…
• n. (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
• n. (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
• n. (graph theory) connection between two vertices.
• v. (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
• v. (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
• v. (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
• v. (transitive) To secure (something) by string or the like.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
• v. (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
• v. (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.

topology

• n. (mathematics) A branch of mathematics studying those properties of a geometric figure or solid that are…
• n. (mathematics) A collection τ of subsets of a set X such that the empty set and X are both members of τ…
• n. (medicine) The anatomical structure of part of the body.
• n. (computing) The arrangement of nodes in a communications network.
• n. (technology) The properties of a particular technological embodiment that are not affected by differences…
• n. (topography) The topographical study of geographic locations or given places in relation to their history.
• n. (dated) The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered…

twine

• n. A twist; a convolution.
• n. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various…
• n. The act of twining or winding round.
• n. Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
• v. (transitive) To weave together.
• v. (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
• v. (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
• v. (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
• v. (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
• v. (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
• v. (obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
• v. (obsolete) To change the direction of.
• v. (obsolete) To mingle; to mix.

wind

• n. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or…
• n. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
• n. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
• n. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.).
• n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
• n. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
• n. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
• n. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points,…
• n. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent…
• n. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
• n. A bird, the dotterel.
• n. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary…
• v. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
• v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
• v. (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
• v. (Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
• v. (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
• v. (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
• v. (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
• v. (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
• v. (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
• v. (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
• v. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
• v. (ergative) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
• v. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate;…
• v. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
• v. To cover or surround with something coiled about.
• n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.

wrap

• v. (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
• v. (figuratively) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show,…
• v. (lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line.
• v. (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
• n. A garment that one wraps around the body to keep oneself warm.
• n. A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
• n. (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
• n. A wraparound mortgage.