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The definition of a loom is a machine used for weaving yarn or thread into fabric.

(noun)

An example of loom is what a textile maker would use to create fabric.

See loom in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a machine for weaving thread or yarn into cloth
the art of weaving: usually with the
Origin: ON hlumr
the part of an oar or paddle between the handle and the blade

Origin: ME lome < OE (ge)loma, tool, utensil

transitive verb

to weave on a loom

intransitive verb

to appear, take shape, or come in sight indistinctly as through a mist, esp. in a large, portentous, or threatening form: often with up[the peak loomed up before us]: also used figuratively [the specter of war loomed ahead]

Origin: earlier lome, loam < ?

noun

a looming appearance, as of a ship in the fog

noun

Brit., Dialectal loon

Loyal Order of Moose

See loom in American Heritage Dictionary 4

intransitive verb loomed, loom·ing, looms

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.
To appear to the mind in a magnified and threatening form: “Stalin looms over the whole human tragedy of 1930-1933” (Robert Conquest).
To seem imminent; impend: Revolution loomed but the aristocrats paid no heed.

noun

A distorted, threatening appearance of something, as through fog or darkness.

Origin:

Origin: Perhaps of Scandinavian origin

noun

An apparatus for making thread or yarn into cloth by weaving strands together at right angles.

transitive verb loomed, loom·ing, looms

To weave (a tapestry, for example) on a loom.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English lome

Origin: , from Old English gelōma, tool

Origin: : ge-, collective pref.; see yclept