hoop

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /hʊp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel. countable,uncountable
  2. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
  3. Any circular band or ring. countable,uncountable
    — the cheese hoop, or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese
  4. The hoopoe. archaic
  5. A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent. countable,uncountable
  6. 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. countable,historical,uncountable
    — He took the removed chair and drew it so near mine, squatting in it with his ugly weight, that he pressed upon my hoop.
  7. 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. countable,uncountable
  8. An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks. UK,countable,obsolete,uncountable
  9. The rim part of a basketball net. countable,uncountable
  10. The game of basketball. US,countable,in-plural,metonymically,uncountable
    — 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.
  11. A hoop earring. countable,uncountable
  12. A horizontal stripe on the jersey. countable,plural-normally,uncountable
    — 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.
  13. A jockey. Australia,broadly,countable,metonymically,slang
    — The stewards ordered Des Coleman, the senior hoop (jockey) present, to ride and he got the horse home in a photo-finish.
  14. An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed. countable,figuratively,plural-normally,uncountable
    — But if they want to export that, then they do have to go through several hoops that you will impose upon them.
  15. Hooping (manipulation of and artistic movement or dancing with a hoop). uncountable
  16. A significant amount of swing from the bowler. slang,uncountable
  17. An apparatus. countable
  18. An apparatus.; An apparatus program with a hoop. countable,metonymically,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To bind or fasten using a hoop. transitive
    — to hoop a barrel or puncheon
  2. To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. dated
  3. To clasp; to encircle; to surround. transitive
    — [B]ehold the wretched price of Wales, / Hoopt with a bond of yron round about, […]
  4. To whoop, as in whooping cough. dated
  5. To play basketball. intransitive,slang
    — Instead of hooping, they now played tennis, golf, or both.

词形变化

hoops plural hoops present,singular,third-person hooping participle,present hooped participle,past hooped past hoops plural hoops present,singular,third-person hooping participle,present hooped participle,past hooped past

词汇关系

衍生词
barrel hoop basketball hoop cock-a-hoop embroidery hoop gathering hoop go through hoops hoop cheese hoop hoe hoop house hoop jumper hoopless hooplike hoop pine hoop snake hoopster hoopstick hoopy hula-hoop hula hoop inhoop jump through hoops leap through hoops nanohoop put through hoops put through the hoops roll hoop unhoop rehoop hooping cough hooper

词源

词源 1
From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English hōp (“mound, raised land; in combination, circular object”), from Proto-Germanic *hōpą (“bend, bow, arch”) (compare Saterland Frisian Houp (“hoop”), Dutch hoep (“hoop”), Old Norse hóp (“bay, inlet”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kāb- (“to bend”) (compare Lithuanian kabė (“hook”), Old Church Slavonic кѫпъ (kǫpŭ, “hill, island”)). More at camp.
词源 2
Onomatopoeic.
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