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loom
noun
1 loom
A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile.
Roget 691:
workshop,
workhouse,
workplace,
shop,
place of business;
manufactory,
mill,
plant,
works,
factory;
cabinet,
studio;
office,
branch office bureau,
atelier.
[specific types of workplace: list],
hive,
hive of industry;
nursery;
hothouse,
hotbed;
kitchen;
mint,
forge,
loom;
dock,
dockyard;
alveary†;
armory;
laboratory,
lab,
research institute;
refinery;
cannery;
power plant;
beauty parlor;
beehive,
bindery,
forcing pit,
nailery†,
usine†,
slip,
yard,
wharf;
foundry,
foundery†;
furnace;
vineyard;
crucible,
alembic,
caldron,
matrix.
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Dutch: weefgetouw
Polish: krosno
verb
1 loom
Come into view indistinctly, often threateningly.
Roget 443:
be dimsighted
etc.
n.;
see double;
have a mote in the eye,
have a mist before the eyes,
have a film over the eyes;
see through a prism,
see through a glass darkly;
wink,
blink,
nictitate;
squint;
look askant†,
askant askance†;
screw up the eyes,
glare,
glower;
nictate†.
dazzle,
loom.
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Roget 446:
be become visible
etc.
adj.;
appear,
open to the view;
meet the eye,
catch the eye;
basset;
present itself,
show manifest itself,
produce itself,
discover itself,
reveal itself,
expose itself,
betray itself;
stand forth,
stand out;
materialize;
show;
arise;
peep out,
peer out,
crop out;
start up,
spring up,
show up,
turn up,
crop up;
glimmer,
loom;
glare;
burst forth;
burst upon the view,
burst upon the sight;
heave in sight;
come in sight,
come into view,
come out,
come forth,
come forward;
see the light of day;
break through the clouds;
make its appearance,
show its face,
appear to one's eyes,
come upon the stage,
float before the eyes,
speak for itself
etc.
(manifest)
525;
attract the attention
etc.
457;
reappear;
live in a glass house.
expose to view
etc.
525.
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Roget 152:
impend;
hang over,
lie over;
threaten,
loom,
await,
come on,
approach,
stare one in the face;
foreordain,
preordain;
predestine,
doom,
have in store for.
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Roget 422:
be dim,
grow dim
etc.
adj.;
flicker,
twinkle,
glimmer;
loom,
lower;
fade;
pale,
pale its ineffectual fire
[Hamlet].
render dim
etc.
adj.;
dim,
bedim†,
obscure;
darken,
tone down.
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2 loom
Appear very large or occupy a commanding position:
— Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall.
synonyms: hulk, predominate, tower.
3 loom
4 loom
Moby thesaurus: anticipate, appear, approach, arise, ascend, await, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be in store, be to be, be to come, become manifest, become visible, braid, brew, bulk, bulk large, come, come forth, come forward, come in sight, come on, come out, come to hand, come to light, come up, coming, confront, crop out, curl upwards, dominate, draw near, draw nigh, draw on, emerge, enlace, enter, entwine, exceed, expect, face, fade in, foresee, foretell, forthcome, forthcoming, futurity, gather, go up, grow up, hand loom, hang over, heave in sight, hope, hover, hover over, immediate future, imminence, impend, impendence, impendency, interknit, interlace, intertie, intertissue, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, intort, issue, issue forth, knit, knitting machine, lace, levitate, lie ahead, lie over, look for, look forth, look forward to, loom large, loop, lower, make up, mat, materialize, menace, mount, near, near future, net, noose, outcrop, outsoar, outstrip, overhang, overshadow, overtop, peep out, plait, plan, pleach, plot, predict, predominate, project, prophesy, raddle, rear, rear its head, rear up, rise, rise above, rise up, see the light, show, show up, shuttle, soar, spiral, spire, splice, stand out, stand up, stream forth, strike the eye, surface, surge, swarm up, sweep up, take form, take shape, threaten, tissue, tower, tower above, transcend, turn up, twill, twine, twist, up, upgo, upgrow, upheave, uprise, upspin, upstream, upsurge, upswarm, upwind, wattle, weave, weaver, web, wreathe ... show more.
looming
adjective
Roget 422:
dim,
dull,
lackluster,
dingy,
darkish,
shorn of its beams,
dark
421.
faint,
shadowed forth;
glassy;
cloudy;
misty
etc.
(opaque)
426;
blear;
muggy†,
fuliginous†;
nebulous,
nebular;
obnubilated†,
overcast,
crepuscular,
muddy,
lurid,
leaden,
dun,
dirty;
looming
etc.
v..
pale
etc.
(colorless)
429;
confused
etc.
(invisible)
447.
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noun
Roget 443:
dim sight,
dull sight half sight,
short sight,
near sight,
long sight,
double sight,
astigmatic sight,
failing sight;
dimsightedness
&c.;
purblindness,
lippitude†;
myopia,
presbyopia†;
confusion of vision;
astigmatism;
color blindness,
chromato pseudo blepsis†,
Daltonism;
nyctalopia†;
strabismus,
strabism†,
squint;
blearedness†,
day blindness,
hemeralopia†,
nystagmus;
xanthocyanopia†,
xanthopsia [Med.];
cast in the eye,
swivel eye,
goggle-eyes;
obliquity of vision.
winking
etc.
v.;
nictitation;
blinkard†,
albino.
dizziness,
swimming,
scotomy†;
cataract;
ophthalmia.
[Limitation of vision]
blinker;
screen
etc.
(hider)
530.
[Fallacies of vision]
deceptio visus [Lat.];
refraction,
distortion,
illusion,
false light,
anamorphosis†,
virtual image,
spectrum,
mirage,
looming,
phasma†;
phantasm,
phantasma†,
phantom;
vision;
specter,
apparition,
ghost;
ignis fatuus [Lat.]
etc.
(luminary)
423;
specter of the Brocken;
magic mirror;
magic lantern
etc.
(show)
448;
mirror lens
etc.
(instrument)
445.
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Moby thesaurus: about to be, already in sight, approaching, at hand, brewing, close, close at hand, coming, fata morgana, forthcoming, future, gathering, going to happen, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, instant, lowering, lurking, menacing, mirage, near, near at hand, nearing, on the horizon, overhanging, preparing, that will be, threatening, to come, upcoming, waiting ... show more.
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