• 1785 invention of England's Edmund Cartwright
• Ani DiFranco song off Little Plastic Castle
• Apparatus with pedals
• Appear
• Appear ahead
• Appear dramatically
• Appear imminent
• Appear impressively large
• Appear in a fog
• Appear in exaggerated form
• Appear indistinctly
• Appear large, like a ship through fog
• Appear menacing
• Appear ominously
• Appear on the horizon
• Appear suddenly
• Appear suddenly, like a boat in fog
• Appear threateningly
• Appear unsubtly
• Approach menacingly
• Arachne had one
• Arachne's tool
• Await ominously
• Be imminent
• Be impending
• Be on the horizon
• Become imminent
• Carpet weaver
• Carpet-making machine
• Clothmaker's frame
• Colonial Williamsburg machine
• Come into view
• Come up quickly
• Come up suddenly
• Contraption for Marner
• Device with shuttles
• Edmund Cartwright's power invention, 1785
• Emerge
• Fruit of the ___
• Hang (over)
• Hang ominously
• Hang ominously on the horizon
• Hang on the horizon
• Hang over one's head
• Hang overhead
• Heddle's place
• Historic Williamsburg machine
• Hover menacingly
• Hover ominously, as clouds
• Hover over
• Hover threateningly
• Impend
• Impend or portend
• It generates material
• It has a warp
• It has heddles and treadles
• It holds a warp
• Jacquard device
• Jacquard invention
• Jacquard machine
• Jacquard's creation
• John M. Weaver's frame (4)
• Machine with a shuttle
• Marner's apparatus
• Marner's machine
• Materialize with effect
• Meet one's gaze in a haze
• Moose group: abbr.
• Norma Rae machine
• Oar part
• Oar shaft
• Penelope's frame
• Penelope's tool
• Place for a warp and a heddle
• Place to weave
• Power ___ (industrial revolution invention)
• Power ___, invention of Edmund Cartwright, ca. 1785
• Rise dramatically
• Rise impressively
• Rise ominously
• Rise on the horizon
• Rise portentously
• Rise up dramatically
• Rug-making need
• Seem imminent
• Shuttle setting
• Shuttle site
• Shuttle spot
• Shuttle venue
• Shuttle's place
• Silas Marner's apparatus
• Silas Marner's machine
• Sit on the horizon
• Take shape
• Take shape dramatically
• Tapestry device
• Tapestry machine
• Tapestry tool
• Textile machine
• The art of weaving
• Thread maker
• Tower
• Warp zone?
• Warp-and-weft machine
• Weaver.s device
• Weaver.s frame
• Weaver's aparatus
• Weaver's contraption
• Weaver's equipment
• Weaver's item
• Weaver's machine
• Weaver's need
• Weaver's tool
• Weaving aid
• Weaving apparatus
• Weaving device
• Weaving frame
• Weaving machine
• Weaving need
• Weft and woof milieu
• What weavers weave on
• Wool gatherer?
• A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
a black shape loomed in the distance - что-то чернелось вдали
the dark outline of another ship loomed through the fog - тёмный контур какого-то корабля неясно вырисовывался в тумане
the mountain-tops loom through the clouds - сквозь тучи смутно видны вершины гор
to loom large - выглядеть грозным, угрожающим
his own private troubles loom very large just now - его личные заботы и тревоги кажутся весьма серьёзными именно теперь
the risk loomed large in his mind - эта угроза заботила его больше всего
the examinations are looming up - надвигаются экзамены
1. ткацкий станок
2. ткачество
II1. {lu:m} n
1) неясные очертания (земли на горизонте и т. п.)
2) мираж
3) отблеск
2. {lu:m} v
1. неясно вырисовываться, появляться (в тумане и т. п.), маячить (тж. ~ up)
a black shape ~ed in the distance - что-то чернелось вдали
the dark outline of another ship ~ed through the fog - тёмный контур какого-то корабля неясно вырисовывался в тумане
the mountain-tops ~ through the clouds - сквозь тучи смутно видны вершины гор
2. принимать угрожающие размеры; грозить (тж. ~ up)
to ~ large - выглядеть грозным, угрожающим
his own private troubles ~ very large just now - его личные заботы и тревоги кажутся весьма серьёзными именно теперь
the risk ~ed large in his mind - эта угроза заботила его больше всего
the examinations are ~ing up - надвигаются экзамены
II {lu:m} n прост.1. = loon1
2. кайра
IV {lu:m} nвалёк весла
Stocks of heating oil are at their lowest levels for years, and another crisis may be looming.
»The company is in serious financial trouble, with more debt looming on the horizon.
sth looms over sb/sth »The threat of closure looms over the workforce.