loop – English noun declension

English noun forms of loop

Noun: loop
Singularloop
Pluralloops

Sample Sentences

  • Arches, loops, and whorls are patterns found in fingerprints.
  • feedback loop
  • time loop
  • An online feed that constantly “refills” manipulates the brain’s dopaminergic reward system in a similar way. These powerful dopamine-driven loops of endless “seeking” can become addictive. [2024 December 9, Siân Boyle, “Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2026:]
  • He can hang out in the back room of the local adult bookstore […] and hope for a stand-up blow-job through the glory hole in the partition of the two booths that show gay loops. [1979 December 8, anonymous author, “The Small Town”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 20, page 5:]
  • In 1908 the line was extended to a station called Wood Lane, which was built on a terminal track loop so that trains could turn round and go back the other way, [...] [2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 119:]
  • Basingstoke-Exeter will test this. From Salisbury westwards, it's largely single-track since British Rail downgraded it in 1967. There's a ten-mile loop between Templecombe and Yeovil, as well as shorter loops at Chard, Axminster and Honiton. [2025 February 5, Philip Haigh, “Where track and train integration will be put to the test”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 51:]
  • And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence / The eye of Reason may pry in upon us. [c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:]
  • Arellano formerly cavorted for the Galicias in the fast-paced National-American Soccer loop. [1963 September 27, “Italias Vie In Bayonne On Sunday”, in The Jersey Journal, page 17:]

Etymology

From Middle English loupe (“noose, loop”), earlier lowp-knot (“loop-knot”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hlaup (“a run”), used in the sense of a "running knot", from hlaupa (“to leap”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to leap, run”). Compare Swedish löp-knut (“loop-knot”), Danish løb-knude (“a running knot”), Danish løb (“a course”). More at leap. The verb is derived from the noun. See: Middle English Nouns 'loupe', Swedish Nouns 'löpknut', Danish Nouns 'løb'.

Verbs referencing "loop"

Portuguese Nouns looping, Irish Nouns lúb.