| 单词 | hoop |
| 释义 | hoop (once / 1286 pages) nv A hoop is a ring or circle made of some stiff material. Gardeners use hoops to support plants, and many people wear hoops around their wrists as bracelets. You can try to toss a basketball through a hoop, wear gold hoops as earrings, or sport an old fashioned hoop skirt, a flexible band that widens a petticoat and the skirt covering it. You can also rotate and spin a hula hoop around your body for fun. If your boss makes you "jump through hoops" at work, it means she requires you to complete difficult, possibly unnecessary, tasks. WORD FAMILYhoop: hooped, hooping, hoops USAGE EXAMPLES“But there are still a lot of hoops to jump through, a lot of hurdles to get over.” Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) He is a revered coach on a reservation where hoops are a cousin to religion. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) Old Mill hit its free throws down the stretch for a 58-54 win in the final of the Waldorf Holiday Hoops Classic. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1n a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse Syn|Hypo|Hyper ring 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 collara short ring fastened over a rod or shaft to limit, guide, or secure a machine part curtain ringa circular ring for holding up a curtain key ringa circular ring of metal for holding keys napkin ringa circular band used to hold a particular person's napkin nose ringa ring worn on the nose as an ornament or on the nose of an animal to control it rimthe outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached rim(basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended tire, tyrehoop that covers a wheel towel ringa circular hoop for holding a towel auto tire, automobile tire, car tire, rubber tirea tire consisting of a rubber ring around the rim of an automobile wheel felloe, fellyrim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted pneumatic tire, pneumatic tyrea tire made of reinforced rubber and filled with compressed air; used on motor vehicles and bicycles etc wagon tirea metal hoop forming the tread of a wheel band a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body) 2n horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball Syn|Hyper basket, basketball hoop basketball equipment sports equipment used in playing basketball goalgame equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points 3n a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt Hypo|Hyper farthingale a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries pannierset of small hoops used to add fullness over the hips frame, skeletal frame, skeleton, underframe the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape 4n a small arch used as croquet equipment Syn|Hyper wicket croquet equipment sports equipment used in playing croquet 5v bind or fasten with a hoop hoop vats Hyper encircle, gird bind with something round or circular |
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