looping

English

Etymology 1

Verb

looping

1. present participle and gerund of loop

Derived terms

• loopingly
• looping snail
• niggerlooping
• nonlooping

Noun

looping (plural loopings)

1. Something that loops; a looped pattern or action.
2. (aviation) A loop (aerobatic maneuver).
3. (education) The practice of having a teacher remain with the same group of students for more than one school year.

Etymology 2

Compare Dutch loopen (“to run”).

Noun

looping

1. The running together of ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.

Anagrams

• pooling

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English looping, from the phrase looping the loop.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

looping m (plural loopings, diminutive loopinkje n)

1. loop-the-loop (manoeuvre or amusement ride feature involving a vertical loop)

Further reading

• looping on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

looping m (plural loopings)

1. loop-the-loop

Further reading

• “looping”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

English loop

French loopingbor.?

Portuguese looping

Possibly borrowed from French looping, from English loop.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pĩ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.pĩɡ/

Noun

looping m (plural loopings)

1. loop (aircraft manoeuvre)

   Synonym: loop

Further reading

• “looping”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “looping”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English looping or French looping.

Noun

looping n (plural loopinguri)

1. loop (aerobatic maneuver in an aircraft)

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	looping	loopingul	loopinguri	loopingurile
genitive-dative	looping	loopingului	loopinguri	loopingurilor
vocative	loopingule		loopingurilor