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单词 looming
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looming


loom 1

L0246900 (lo͞om)intr.v. loomed, loom·ing, looms 1. 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.2. To appear to the mind in a magnified and threatening form: "Stalin looms over the whole human tragedy of 1930-1933" (Robert Conquest).3. To seem imminent; impend: Revolution loomed but the aristocrats paid no heed.n. A distorted, threatening appearance of something, as through fog or darkness.
[Perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]

loom 2

L0246900 (lo͞om)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).]

looming

(ˈluːm ɪŋ) adjimminent
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looming:

see miragemirage
, atmospheric optical illusion in which an observer sees in the distance a nonexistent body of water or an image, sometimes distorted, of some object or of a complete scene.
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Looming

 

(Creativity), a literary-artistic and sociopolitical magazine, the organ of the Union of Writers of the Estonian SSR. Founded in 1923 in Tartu, for the most part it advocated democratic principles in bourgeois Estonia. In Soviet Estonia the magazine has been published monthly in Tallinn since 1945. One of the founders of the magazine and its first editor was F. Tuglas. Most of the important works of Estonian Soviet literature are published in Looming. In 1973 the magazine had a circulation of 16,000-18,000. A supplement, the Looming Library, appears weekly.

looming

[′lüm·iŋ] (optics) A form of mirage in which images of objects normally hidden below the horizon are seen in the sky, sometimes upside down; a common occurrence in the Far North.
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