Loom

Loom

/ˈlüm/

noun

1) a device or machine from which cloth is made by interweaving yarn or thread at right angles

“We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.”

– Henry Ward Beecher (1813 – 1887)

verb

2) to come into view as a massive, indistinct, or distorted image

“A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist, it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.”

– John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)

3) to seem imminent

“Each morning she was fortified by hope: the future loomed.”

– from The Orchardist, by Amanda Coplin (1981 – )