I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a loop of wire
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There is no latch or knob – just a loop of wire that goes over a nail.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
continuous
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The tape is said to run in a continuous loop , a method of speeding up access time to data.
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Ink ribbons for dot-matrix printers are made in the form of a continuous loop .
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And the continuous loops put an end to tangled cords.
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belt
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Jimmy went back to his conversation with the tattooed man, his thumb now resting casually in Sean's belt loop .
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He had a wrench hanging from his belt loop .
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B Fashionable trousers with inverted front pleats, belt loops and turn-ups.
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They also pack away neatly into their own back pocket, with a small belt loop attached - a nice touch.
feedback
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A standard improvement on this feedback loop is shown next.
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The loss was caused by technological change and the amplifying feedback loop of responses to that change.
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Recent work has focused on the gastrin acid secretion feedback loop and identified a number of potential pathogenetic pathways.
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Fortunately, feedback loops can be combined into useful configurations.
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This closes the positive feedback loop , because the more the bridge sways, the more force people exert to keeping standing.
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Ashby was an engineer interested in nonlinear control circuits and the virtues of positive feedback loops .
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Deviancy amplification is achieved by means of a relatively simple positive feedback loop .
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Negative feedback loops can be periodic.
wire
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The paper support for this is a flimsy piece of plastic, and a wire loop .
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Pick up the web on this card, as with the wire loop .
■ VERB
close
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Feedback from the department to the senior house officers would close the educational loop .
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A closed loop is a self-contained unit that has no identifiable beginning or end, like a circle or an integrated circuit.
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This closes the positive feedback loop , because the more the bridge sways, the more force people exert to keeping standing.
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Periodicity is the consequence of activity propagating through the closed loop .
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Feedback networks that have closed loops are recurrent systems.
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Systems theory suggests that a closed loop of activity, left undisturbed, will replicate itself over and over.
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The same zero-pollution closed-loop principles in a plating factory can be designed into an industrial park or entire region.
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Networks with closed loops are called recurrent networks.
form
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Either form a loop of sticky strip at the bottom, or cut off the part that isn t sticky.
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The blade itself forms an endless loop , like the infinity sign in modern mathematics.
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Secure the bridle adjustment with a half-hitch to form a small loop .
throw
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George threw his loop , missed.
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Joanna totally threw me for a loop .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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belt loops
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Pull the end of the string through the loop and tighten.
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The gate was attached to the post by a loop of rusty wire.
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The road goes round in a loop and rejoins the main road about 2 kilometres past the town.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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D1771 comes off the loop with a local trip freight in 1965.
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He performed a laborious loop , the signal for Kimberley and Killion to join him.
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It was a kind of loop and roll that dodged the pursuing aircraft and brought you up behind it.
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Picture the belt down across his chest with the sun glinting on the bullets that filled most of the loops.
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The descending limb of the loop of Henle is water-permeable but relatively solute-impermeable.
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The new decoder uses an amplitude locked loop in combination with a phase locked loop to achieve this breakthrough.
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This seems to be what is happening in the examples above, where the adult is acting as a simple feedback loop .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
neck
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Jungle boots were looped round their necks and they carried weapons.
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A choke collar looped around his neck , a glittering chain.
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A canvas satchel looped round his neck sagged against his chest.
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His head snapped violently and twisted to follow it, as though it had tethered him, looped around his neck .
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He had retained his grandpa's Albert, however, and wore the watch chain looped round his neck like a medallion.
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White-bead chains that held dosimeters, radiation-sensing devices resembling large telephone pagers, were looped around their necks .
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Cecilia could see that the man with the bear held it by a chain looped round its neck .
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With her arms looped around my neck , she felt so fragile and small.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A man in the next car was looping a tie around his neck.
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The space probe looped toward Jupiter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A knotted skein of nylon straps was looped round his chest.
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Cecilia could see that the man with the bear held it by a chain looped round its neck.
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It was tricky work, which Trondur directed, to loop the belts around the raft and then pull them tight.
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The seven kites dipped and looped as one.
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Then he starts to loop his hair into an elastic band first thing every morning.
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White-bead chains that held dosimeters, radiation-sensing devices resembling large telephone pagers, were looped around their necks.