Hoop

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
2. isim Any circular band or ring.

   “the cheese hoop, or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese”

3. isim A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
4. isim 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.

   “He took the removed chair and drew it so near mine, squatting in it with his ugly weight, that he pressed upon my hoop.”

5. isim 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.
6. isim An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
7. isim The rim part of a basketball net.
8. isim The game of basketball.

   “Articles ranging from Chris Johnson's "For Europeans, hoops is the second-most beautiful game" for The Globe and Mail to Adam Minter's "China Is Hoops Country" for Bloomberg Opinion have detailed the rise in basketball in a wide range of countries, including the most populous ones in the world.”

9. isim A hoop earring.
10. isim A horizontal stripe on the jersey.

    “Porto are playing from right to left in blue and white stripes, blue shorts and blue socks. Celtic are in their usual green and white hoops, with white shorts and white socks.”

11. isim A jockey.

    “The stewards ordered Des Coleman, the senior hoop (jockey) present, to ride and he got the horse home in a photo-finish.”

12. isim An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.

    “But if they want to export that, then they do have to go through several hoops that you will impose upon them.”

13. isim Hooping (manipulation of and artistic movement or dancing with a hoop).
14. isim A significant amount of swing from the bowler.
15. isim An apparatus.
16. isim An apparatus program with a hoop.
17. fiil To bind or fasten using a hoop.

    “to hoop a barrel or puncheon”

18. fiil To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

    “[B]ehold the wretched price of Wales, / Hoopt with a bond of yron round about, […]”

19. fiil To play basketball.

    “Instead of hooping, they now played tennis, golf, or both.”

20. isim A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
21. isim The hoopoe.
22. fiil To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
23. fiil To whoop, as in whooping cough.
24. isim someone connected with Queens Park Rangers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.