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noun

a mirage in which objects below the horizon seem to be raised above their true positions.

Origin:
1620–30; loom² + -ing¹

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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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Some of the same people who warned of the looming subprime crisis two years ago are ringing alarm bells again.

The chickens looked spectacularly glorious in their individual cages, oblivious to their looming fates.

As austerity measures bite, our correspondents discuss a looming clash between governments and their unionised workers.

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Some of the same people who warned of the looming subprime crisis two years ago are ringing alarm bells again.

The chickens looked spectacularly glorious in their individual cages, oblivious to their looming fates.

As austerity measures bite, our correspondents discuss a looming clash between governments and their unionised workers.

The dike, always looming somewhere in the background, has become part of life by the lake.

In this age of looming bioterrorism, keeping chemical warfare vapors off of soldiers is a primary military concern.

She indicates the large rock face looming straight in front of us.

It updates its traffic readings every two minutes to ensure there's no blockades looming.

Antioch alumni have created a college-revival fund to prevent the looming closure.

China is sitting on a looming demographic time bomb.

Mandela seldom interferes, but his looming presence and quiet admonitions and encouragement have the desired effect.

It's hard to get a grant when your findings reveal that there isn't a disaster looming.

So is the big building, gabled and stout, looming ahead on our left.

Then came his non-answers on several crucial looming decisions facing the military.

S/he may have next year's schedule already submitted and see a big hole looming.

One obvious risk to a sturdy recovery is the looming effect of tighter fiscal policy.

Aside from looming coal silos and a few roads across the mesas, the underground mines make scant visible marks on the land.

The authors then presented a second looming dot, this time outside the field of view of the neurons they were studying.

Utah, seeking to escape a looming pension deficit, will encourage new employees to enroll in a hybrid plan starting next year.

Yet these advantages are outweighed by several looming hazards.

Looming above the town, many miles distant but still so high that it dominates the view, is a peak swept by clouds.

Some of old folks may remember the cold war, with constantly looming threat of nuclear annihilation.

Looming ever closer is the retirement of the big baby-boom generation born after the second world war.

Looming gaps in satellite coverage challenge sustained climate observation.

Either way, there will always be a new crop of upstarts looming in the champ's rearview.

But there are also looming food shortages and price spikes, even in cities.

Looming debt and demographic crises have governments searching for extra revenue.

There was a looming fear that a continuous shower would alert the water police, who'd storm our suburban home to.

The looming courtroom confrontation is drawing interest from freedom-to-tinker.

But when this looming edifice was slowly wheeled around by a.

There is a looming shortage of librarians, although more in the public sphere than the academic.

Now, with war looming and defence budgets being ramped up again, the military's personnel planners hope to play catch-up.

Glover and his team of researchers believe they have the solution to a silent but looming catastrophe-perennial grains.

Unfortunately, this time not even the looming extinction of humanity resolves it for him.

Illinois is a telling example of this looming political battle.

The online store's hulking headquarters, looming over.

China stands little chance of warding off its looming crisis.

The racket, diesel exhaust, and looming tires had probably made mama bear flee.

As a result of this looming legal fight, much of what could be known about ecological impacts remains hidden.

As with national legislation battles, the issue of emission permits is looming large.

Right now we're looking at not one but two looming crises, either of which could.

The looming student debt crisis speaks more to the failure of individual students and our education system.

Instead, indigestion was looming even before the meal was cooked.

Now, with the end of the trip looming near, it's time for one last epic undertaking.

With a new transportation bill looming that could reach a half trillion.

He says the new budget is a positive development, though the mayor has not yet tackled a looming pensions crisis.

By the time it was in motion, a midday storm was looming.

Space weather is a looming threat for any space flier.

Gamers interviewed about the looming crisis were mixed in their reaction to the conflict.

Some wonder if a similar backlash may be looming with respect to gay rights.

Looming in the background, though, is the darker world of the xiagang-the laid-off state workers.

Turner, incorporated chrome yellows in their work, making its preservation a looming concern for many museums.

Looming large in the middle of the event was the ramp.

These companies will keep tapping the markets in a bid to extend maturities and smooth out that looming repayment cliff.

After all, it's the sensational stories about shortages and looming disaster that sell newspapers.

These aren't a fantasy river or a mountain, but the shadow of the past looming.

Such numbers are in any event small change compared with other losses looming over the company.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a hand-operated or power-driven apparatus for weaving fabrics, containing harnesses, lay, reed, shuttles, treadles, etc.

the art or the process of weaving.

the part of an oar between the blade and the handle.

verb (used with object)

to weave (something) on a loom.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English lome, Old English gelōma tool, implement. See heirloom

verb (used without object)

to appear indistinctly; come into view in indistinct and enlarged form: The mountainous island loomed on the horizon.

to rise before the vision with an appearance of great or portentous size: Suddenly a police officer loomed in front of him.

to assume form as an impending event: A battle looms at the convention.

noun

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; origin uncertain

Synonyms
2. rear, tower.

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Word Origin & History

loom

1540s, perhaps from a Scandinavian 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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"He certainly must be a son of Aurora to whom the sun looms, when there are so many millions to whom it glooms rather, or who will never see it till an hour after it has risen. But it behooves us old stagers to keep our lamps trimmed and burning to the last, and not trust to the sun's looming."

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