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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).]
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Loom

Loom\, n. (Zo["o]l.) See Loon, the bird.

Loom

Loom\, n. [OE. lome, AS. gel?ma utensil, implement.]

1. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.

Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff. --Rambler.

2. (Naut.) That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock. --Totten.

Loom

Loom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Loomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Looming.] [OE. lumen to shine, Icel. ljoma; akin to AS. le['o]ma light, and E. light; or cf. OF. lumer to shine, L. luminare to illumine, lumen light; akin to E. light. ? See Light not dark.]

1. To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain, esp. from atmospheric influences; as, the ship looms large; the land looms high.

Awful she looms, the terror of the main. --H. J. Pye.

2. To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.

On no occasion does he [Paul] loom so high, and shine so gloriously, as in the context. --J. M. Mason.

Loom

Loom\, n. The state of looming; esp., an unnatural and indistinct appearance of elevation or enlargement of anything, as of land or of a ship, seen by one at sea.
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Language Translation for : loom
Spanish: telar,
German: der Webstuhl,
Japanese: 織機
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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.
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LOOM
Loyal Order of Moose
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