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loom1 (lōōm)

[Perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]

intransitive verb: 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.

noun 

A distorted, threatening appearance of something, as through fog or darkness.
loom2 (lōōm)

[Middle English lome, from Old English gelōma, tool, ge-, collective pref.; see yclept, + -lōma, tool (as in handlōman, tools).]

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.