loop

Universal Words noun, verb noun 1 a shape like a curve or circle made by a line curving right round and crossing itself: The road went in a huge loop around the lake. * Duclair is a small town on a loop of the River Seine. 2 a piece of rope, wire, etc. in the shape of a curve or circle: He tied a loop of rope around his arm. * Make a loop in the string. * a belt loop (= on trousers / pants, etc. for holding a belt in place) 3 a strip of film or tape on which the pictures and sound are repeated continuously: The film is on a loop. * (figurative) His mind kept turning in an endless loop. 4 (computing) a set of instructions that is repeated again and again until a particular condition is satisfied 5 a complete CIRCUIT for electrical current 6 (BrE) a railway line or road that leaves the main track or road and then joins it again IDIOMS be in the loop