Looped

Part of speech: adjective, verb

Pronunciation: /luːpt/

Definitions

1. A form that circles back to its origin resembling a ring; a sequence that is repeated continuously without an endpoint; the act of joining items together in a recurring circular binding pattern
2. Formed into a curved or ring shape ; occurring over and over again without stopping ; connected by bending or linking into a round shape
3. Shaped by bending into circles or arcs ; happening again and again in a pattern ; attached by being knotted or bound in a circular way

Etymology: The shape of a loop once meant a trap. Middle English "loupe" meant "noose" or "loop", and the older form "lowp-knot" was a "loop-knot" tied so that it tightened when pulled. The idea is that a running knot slides along its line, so the noose closes around whatever is caught in it. That origin comes from North Germanic. Old Norse "hlaup" meant "a run", and it came from "hlaupa", "to leap", which goes back to a Proto-Germanic root for leaping or running. Swedish "löp-knut" and Danish "løb-knude" keep the same picture of a knot that runs along a rope, and Danish "løb" also means "a course", so the sense of a path that returns to its start was present from the beginning. The verb developed from the noun, so to loop something was first to tie it into a noose or circular knot. The sense of a repeated circuit, as in a recording that plays again and again, grew out of that same image of a line that circles back on itself.

Synonyms: curved, bent, coiled, twisted, circular

Antonyms: straight, linear, unbent, uncoiled, flat