Uttal
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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
- (dated) loon (bird of order Gaviformes)
- 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.
- That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock
Verb
- to impend; to threaten or hang over.
- To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.
Exempel
- heirloom, workloom
- Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff.
- The clouds loomed over the mountains.
- On no occasion does he [Paul] loom so high, and shine so gloriously, as in the context.
- With no extra-time to be played and penalties looming, the Portuguese winger pounced on some hesitant City defending to run on to a Wayne Rooney clearance, round Joe Hart and slot home.
- A heirloom ; a workloom.
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