looms in English

noun
1
an apparatus for making fabric by weaving yarn or thread.
Their elaborate fabrics, woven on looms from cotton and alpaca wool, are known today because they were used in a type of mummification process.
2
a vague and often exaggerated first appearance of an object seen in darkness or fog, especially at sea.
the loom of the land ahead
verb
1
appear as a shadowy form, especially one that is large or threatening.
vehicles loomed out of the darkness
synonyms:emergeappearcome into viewtake shapematerializereveal itself
verb

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1. Darkness looms around them.

2. And the spectre of money laundering looms.

3. The threat of closure looms over the workforce.

4. It is spun on the looms of the gods.

5. The threat of renewed civil war looms ahead.

6. One issue that looms large is GM's unsecured debt.

7. The culture question looms large in the yak business.

8. Rapier looms are made in a variety of types.

9. Use: rapier, projectile, air - jet and water jet looms.

10. Have you ever wondered what the different between Jack, Counterbalance, and Countermarche weaving looms? These 3 types of floor looms are named for the diffe

11. The dread spectre of civil war looms over the country.

12. The awful spectre of civil war looms over the country.

13. Financial markets are jittery, as a war looms in the Gulf.

14. The second lobe looms overhead until it fills most of the sky.

15. Although commercial Beading looms exist today at any craft store, original looms either used the beader's own body or wood bent similar to a bow to form the frame

16. Here a low relief of a god, 7 ft tall, looms.

17. But no dream or artifact looms as large as his words.

18. Most four-shaft Countermarch looms have only six treadles, but on some looms it’s easy to make two more treadles from pieces of wood to match those already on the loom

19. This is the situation for many of the air-jet and water-jet looms operated in the Community and for the majority of rapier and projectile looms producing low range fabrics.

20. Barca looms over it, ready to break bone at the slightest provocation.

21. California Faces Water Cutbacks As Drought Looms Kat Schuster 8 mins ago

22. At the conclusion of the war, Suzuki went back to producing looms.

23. Business boomed as Suzuki built weaving looms for Japan's giant silk industry.

24. All were busily engaged, men at their ploughs , women at their looms.

25. Looms and sewing machines were distributed to help families return to self-reliance.

26. In “Apat”, there looms a dreading feeling: lyrics are expository rather than conversational

27. As long as you capture one mountain range , another one looms just ahead.

28. This can be seen from the relatively more rapid growth of spindles and looms .

29. 30 With these very large passenger payloads one question looms above all others — safety.

30. Bobbin Carrier / Bobbiner : Supplied the looms with bobbins in spinning and weaving More Info

31. Asbury Looms Cafe Classic Aubusson 950 10870 28 Black 1'11" x 7'2" Runner Rug

32. 1 just as it was a year ago, while AlaBama looms in the teens, certain

33. The hub sits Catty-corner to One World Trade and looms over the September 11th memorial pools

34. One of the major uses of linear motors is for propelling the shuttle in looms.

35. Maha Bandula looms large in Burmese history for his courage to take on the British.

36. As the mid - term election looms, a staggering number of Americans remain unemployed or underemployed.

37. (34) In addition, air-jet looms need a specific infrastructure in the plant to be operational.

38. A gurgling burn looms before you and in its cool streams you immerse your weary feet.

39. Their life had become a never-ending trudge to keep the Looms of the necromancer weaving dreadful enchantments.

40. The number of looms and spindles increased much faster , as can be seen from the following Table .

41. During the early years of Countermarch looms coming to the US, hand tied heddles were used.

42. THE nuclear threat —whether from terrorists’ bombs or from accidents at nuclear plants— looms over all.

43. ASTRONAUTS thrill to photograph the earth as it looms large through the window of a spacecraft.

44. 24 Whenever biology meets behaviour the spectre of social Darwinism and eugenics looms menacingly in the background.

45. This will be a solid foundation for the next, more active, phase of India-Africa cooperation that now looms.

46. Handlooms and power looms transform coir into attractive doormats, mourzouks (heavy coir rugs), carpets, floor mattings, and wall panelings.

47. Form construction design of the fine sirofilspin doeskin and experience of weaving on the different rapier looms.

48. Clash looms over air traffic control Many critics of Railtrack accuse it of putting profits above passenger safety.

49. Furthermore, about 3,000 piles, anchoring and other timbers, hearths made of clay and parts of looms, were ensured.

50. The number of looms , however , increased by 25 per centan indication of further contraction in export trade in yarn .