overloop

English

Noun

overloop (plural overloops)

1. Obsolete form of orlop.
   • 1785, John Campbell, Biographia Nautica:

     In extremity, we carry our ordnance better than we were wont, because our nether overloops ( u ) , are raised commonly from the water, between the lower part of the port, and the sea .

   • 1860, Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects - Volume 1, page 150:

     After the accident with the Mary Rose, occasioned by the lowness of her ports, and by the fact of the guns being unbreeched, as was the custom, they raised both the gun-decks, or overloops, as Sir W. Raleigh calls them, and fitted breechings to the guns.

2. A loop that occurs above something.
   • 1992, Jeremy Lewis, The Chatto Book of Office Life, Or, Love Among the Filing Cabinets, page 336:

     I almost signed, and then luckily I noticed that my boss Abelardo's tall and horizontally compressed conquistador signature, with lots of overloops and proud flourishes, was located one petal over on the very same flower I had chosen.

   • 2002, Graeme B. Dinwoodie, William O. Hennessey, Shira Perlmutter, International and Comparative Patent Law, page 200:

     It was not until November 1978 that Levine seriously began pursuing the utilitarian application of his sculptures, when a friend, G. Duff Bailey, a bicycle buff and author of numerous articles about urban cycling, was at Levine's home and informed him that the sculptures would make excellent bicycle racks, permitting bicycles to be parked under the overloops as well as on top of the underloops.

3. (computing) An outer loop; A loop that contains an inner loop.
   • 1998, Dan Parkinson, The Whispers, page 133:

     Well , they certainly didn't know about loops yet, much less closed loops and overloops.

   • 2011, Béatrice Bouchou-Markhoff, Pascal Caron, Jean-Marc Champarnaud ·, Implementation and Application of Automata, page 174:

     In contrast to the loop-based construction, the overloop-based algorithm (Algo.2) suppresses this problem completely.

Verb

overloop (third-person singular simple present overloops, present participle overlooping, simple past and past participle overlooped)

1. To loop over.
   • 1871, English Patents of Inventions, Specifications: 1870, 2301 - 2330, page 9:

     I sometimes form the fabric by passing the weft thread over alternate loops, as, for example, first, the thread a³ overloops in one row, and then that indicated by a⁴ overloops in the next row; this will produce a change in the figure from a square to a diamond in form, and this is done in one way by setting the wheels C on alternate needles.

   • 1896, Frank Marion Bennett, Robert Weir, The Steam Navy of the United States, page 481:

     The torpedo consisted of a cylindrical copper case held in a scoop at the end of the spar and so overlooped by a line that it could be thrown out of the scoop when desired.

   • 2012, Nicholas Grabowsky, The Everborn, page 180:

     Matt unbuttoned the thin black strap which overlooped the base of the CB's fat black antenna, slid the radio from its holster and clicked a switch at its top.

   • 2017, Claire Lilley, 200+ School Exercises with Poles:

     Follow green and purple lines – ride a 'curvy' serpentine (one which overloops and has no straight sections) between the poles.

   • 2020, Mary Clearman Blew, This Is Not the Ivy League: A Memoir:

     From the warmth of the car, what is visible through a veil of rain on the windshield is the endless interstate and the busy, increasing traffic that nips in and out as double lanes become triple lanes for the descent down the west side of the Cascades, triple lanes and access lanes and underpasses and loops and whorls buzzing with traffic, past towns with names that used to have meanings, Snoqualmie, Issaquah, only a blur, until finally there's the skyline of Bellevue on the east shore of Lake Washington, great glass and steel towers completely surrounded by residential developments and featureless strips and malls and parking garages and apartment complexes beyond complexes beyond complexes, all looped and overlooped by freeways meeting freeways, freeways passing over and under freeways, serpentine and circumferencing freeways.

2. To loop too much.
   • 1997, The Journal of NIH Research, page 5:

     Lonely atrium mutants, for example, have no distinguishable ventricles, and overlooped embryos have abnormally positioned heart chambers.

   • 2014, Thorne Smith, The Stray Lamb, page 183:

     He had absorbed too much stale water and overlooped a bit.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.vərˌloːp/

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• Hyphenation: o‧ver‧loop

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch overloop.

Noun

overloop m (plural overlopen, diminutive overloopje n)

1. transition

   Synonym: overgang

2. a landing, corridor between rooms on the upper floor of a house
3. overflow, outlet for excess matter
4. spillover, excess matter that has overflowed

Related terms

• overlopen

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

overloop

1. first-person singular dependent-clause present indicative of overlopen

Anagrams

• loop over