Carn is the official magazine of the Celtic League. The name, a Celtic word which has been borrowed into English as 'cairn', was chosen for its symbolic value and because it can be found in each of the living Celtic languages. The subtitle is: 'A Link Between the Celtic Nations'.
dangling (plural danglings) 1  The act of hanging something so that it can move freely; suspension. 2  The act of following or trailing around. 1866, Mark Lemon, Falkner Lyle, Or, The Story of Two Wives [â¦] Falkner's quick-sighted honour would not have tolerated your brother's danglings at the skirts of beauty.
(redirected from hoop) Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Legal, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The displacement of the image of an object occurring when viewing across the borderline between two portions of different power in a bifocal or trifocal lens. The jump is eliminated by placing the optical centres on the dividing line; the lens is then called a no jump bifocal (e.g. a monocentric bifocal with a straight dividing line) (Fig. J1).