loop

• vi. 輪になる；宙返りする
• n. 輪；輪；曲がった部分；宙返り
• vt. 輪を作る；輪でつなぐ；宙返りをする

中英語のloupe, rope, lassoから。語源的にはleapと同じで、原義は動物用の投げ縄、投げ縄であろうが、後に円、輪を指すようになった。farrow、furrow、porkと比較される。

loop (n.)

late 14c., "loop of cloth, rope, leather, etc.," probably of Celtic origin (compare Gaelic lub "bend," Irish lubiam), influenced by or blended with Old Norse hlaup "a leap, run" (see leap (v.)). In reference to magnetic recording tape or film, first recorded 1931. Computer programming sense first attested 1947.

loop (v.)

"to form a loop," c. 1400, "draw (a leash through a ring)," from loop (n.). Related: Looped; looping. Slang looped "drunk" is from 1934. Loop the loop (1900) originally was in reference to roller-coasters at amusement parks.

"Loop-the-Loop" is the name of a new entertainment which goes further in the way of tempting Providence than anything yet invented. The "Loop" is an immense circle of track in the air. A car on a mimic railway shoots down a very steep incline, and is impelled around the inner side of this loop. ... The authorities at Coney Island are said to have prohibited "looping-the-loop" because women break their corset strings in their efforts to catch their breath as they sweep down the incline, and moreover, a young man is reported to have ruptured a blood vessel in his liver. ["Philadelphia Medical Journal," Aug. 10, 1901]

1. I think that the vice president was in the loop .

副大統領は局内人だと思います。

2.These activists don 't want to feel out of the loop .

これらの活動分子は部外者になりたくない。

3.The road went in a huge loop around the lake.

その道は湖を一周している。

4. Loop the rope around the pole.

ロープを柱に取り付ける。

5. Loop the curtains up.

カーテンを巻く.