hoop
Pronunciation: /huːp/
The English word “hoop” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
- Any circular band or ring.
- A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
- 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.
- 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.
- An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
- The rim part of a basketball net.
- The game of basketball.
- A hoop earring.
- A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
- A jockey.
- An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.
- Hooping (manipulation of and artistic movement or dancing with a hoop).
- A significant amount of swing from the bowler.
- An apparatus.
- An apparatus program with a hoop.
- A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
verb
Etymology
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.
Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “hoop” there
More English words
About this dictionary
The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.
Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.