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loom

1  [loom]
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–noun
1. a hand-operated or power-driven apparatus for weaving fabrics, containing harnesses, lay, reed, shuttles, treadles, etc.
2. the art or the process of weaving.
3. the part of an oar between the blade and the handle.
–verb (used with object)
4. to weave (something) on a loom.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME lome, OE gelōma tool, implement. See heirloom
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loom

2  [loom]
–verb (used without object)
1. to appear indistinctly; come into view in indistinct and enlarged form: The mountainous island loomed on the horizon.
2. to rise before the vision with an appearance of great or portentous size: Suddenly a police officer loomed in front of him.
3. to assume form as an impending event: A battle looms at the convention.
–noun
4. a looming appearance, as of something seen indistinctly at a distance or through a fog: the loom of a moraine directly in their path.
Origin:
1585–95; orig. uncert.

Synonyms:
2. rear, tower.

loom

3  [loom]
–noun British Dialect.
1. loon 1 .
2. a guillemot or murre.
Origin:
1670–80; < ON lōmr

L.O.O.M.

 
Loyal Order of Moose.
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loom 1   (lōōm)   
intr.v.   loomed, loom·ing, looms

  1. To come into view as a massive, distorted, or indistinct image: "I faced the icons that loomed through the veil of incense" (Fergus M. Bordewich). See Synonyms at appear.

  2. To appear to the mind in a magnified and threatening form: "Stalin looms over the whole human tragedy of 1930-1933" (Robert Conquest).

  3. To seem imminent; impend: Revolution loomed but the aristocrats paid no heed.

n.  A distorted, threatening appearance of something, as through fog or darkness.

[Perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]
loom 2   (lōōm)   
n.  An apparatus for making thread or yarn into cloth by weaving strands together at right angles.
tr.v.   loomed, loom·ing, looms
To weave (a tapestry, for example) on a loom.

[Middle English lome, from Old English gelōma, tool : ge-, collective pref.; see yclept + -lōma, tool (as in handlōman, tools).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

loom  (n.)
O.E. geloma "utensil, tool," from ge- perfective prefix + -loma, of unknown origin. Originally "implement or tool of any kind" (cf. heirloom); thus, "the penis" (c.1400-1600). Meaning "a machine in thich yarn or thread is woven into fabric" is from 1404.

loom  (v.)
1542, perhaps from a Scand. source (cf. dial. Swed. loma, E.Fris. lomen "move slowly"), perhaps a variant from the root of lame (adj.); first used of ships.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
LOOM
Loyal Order of Moose
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