[loo-ming] 
| a mirage in which objects below the horizon seem to be raised above their true positions. |
[loom] | 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. |
| 4. | to weave (something) on a loom. |
[loom] | 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. |
| 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. |
| loom 1 (lōōm) intr.v. loomed, loom·ing, looms
[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).] |