overloopとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

overloop (三人称単数 現在形 overloops, 現在分詞 overlooping, 過去形および過去分詞形 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 かつ 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.