HOOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hoop mean? 

• HOOP (noun)
  The noun HOOP has 4 senses:

1. a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt

2. a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling

3. a small arch used as croquet equipment

4. horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball

  Familiarity information: HOOP used as a noun is uncommon.

• HOOP (verb)
  The verb HOOP has 1 sense:

1. bind or fasten with a hoop

  Familiarity information: HOOP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hoop" is a kind of...):

frame; skeletal frame; skeleton; underframe (the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hoop"):

farthingale (a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries)

pannier (set of small hoops used to add fullness over the hips)

Holonyms ("hoop" is a part of...):

crinoline; hoopskirt (a skirt stiffened with hoops)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hoop; ring

Context example:

there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse

Hypernyms ("hoop" is a kind of...):

band (a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hoop"):

carabiner; karabiner; snap ring (an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes)

collar (a short ring fastened over a rod or shaft to limit, guide, or secure a machine part)

curtain ring (a circular ring for holding up a curtain)

key ring (a circular ring of metal for holding keys)

napkin ring (a circular band used to hold a particular person's napkin)

nose ring (a ring worn on the nose as an ornament or on the nose of an animal to control it)

rim (the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached)

rim ((basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended)

tire; tyre (hoop that covers a wheel)

towel ring (a circular hoop for holding a towel)

Holonyms ("hoop" is a part of...):

barrel; cask (a cylindrical container that holds liquids)

wagon wheel (a wheel of a wagon)

Derivation:

hoop (bind or fasten with a hoop)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A small arch used as croquet equipment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hoop; wicket

Hypernyms ("hoop" is a kind of...):

croquet equipment (sports equipment used in playing croquet)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

basket; basketball hoop; hoop

Hypernyms ("hoop" is a kind of...):

goal (game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points)

basketball equipment (sports equipment used in playing basketball)

• HOOP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hoop    ... he / she / it hoops   
Past simple: hooped   
Past participle: hooped   
-ing form: hooping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bind or fasten with a hoop

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

hoop vats

Hypernyms (to "hoop" is one way to...):

encircle; gird (bind with something round or circular)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

hoop (a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling)

 Context examples 

The stone cannot be removed from its place by any force, because the hoop and its feet are one continued piece with that body of adamant which constitutes the bottom of the island.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She saw herself at the end of a few weeks, the gaze and admiration of every new acquaintance at Fullerton, the envy of every valued old friend in Putney, with a carriage at her command, a new name on her tickets, and a brilliant exhibition of hoop rings on her finger.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

There was a table, and a Dutch clock, and a chest of drawers, and on the chest of drawers there was a tea-tray with a painting on it of a lady with a parasol, taking a walk with a military-looking child who was trundling a hoop.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs. Fairfax was summoned to give information respecting the resources of the house in shawls, dresses, draperies of any kind; and certain wardrobes of the third storey were ransacked, and their contents, in the shape of brocaded and hooped petticoats, satin sacques, black modes, lace lappets, &c., were brought down in armfuls by the abigails; then a selection was made, and such things as were chosen were carried to the boudoir within the drawing-room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is hooped round with a hollow cylinder of adamant, four feet yards in diameter, placed horizontally, and supported by eight adamantine feet, each six yards high.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)