All loom synonyms
loom
L l verb loom
- hover β to hang fluttering or suspended in the air: The helicopter hovered over the building.
- stand out β something or someone, as a person, performance, etc., remarkably superior to others: Evans was a standout in the mixed doubles.
- overshadow β to be more important or significant by comparison: For years he overshadowed his brother.
- mount β to go up; climb; ascend: to mount stairs.
- come on β You say 'Come on' to someone to encourage them to do something they do not much want to do.
- portend β to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does: The street incident may portend a general uprising.
- brew β If you brew tea or coffee, you make it by pouring hot water over tea leaves or ground coffee.
- threaten β to utter a threat against; menace: He threatened the boy with a beating.
- dominate β to rule over; govern; control.
- soar β to fly upward, as a bird.
- lower β to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
- gather β to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- figure β a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- show β to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- issue β the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution: the issue of food and blankets to flood victims.
- top β Technical/Office Protocol
- rise β to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- impress β to press or force into public service, as sailors.
- dawn β Dawn is the time of day when light first appears in the sky, just before the sun rises.
- bulk β You can refer to something's bulk when you want to emphasize that it is very large.
- near β close; to a point or place not far away: Come near so I won't have to shout.
- await β If you await someone or something, you wait for them.
- overhang β to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.
- tower β the fiber of flax, hemp, or jute prepared for spinning by scutching.
- menace β something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- approach β When you approach something, you get closer to it.
- impend β to be imminent; be about to happen.
- rear β the back of something, as distinguished from the front: The porch is at the rear of the house.
- overtop β to rise over or above the top of: a skyscraper that overtops all the other buildings.
- appear β If you say that something appears to be the way you describe it, you are reporting what you believe or what you have been told, though you cannot be sure it is true.
- emerge β Move out of or away from something and come into view.
- come out β When a new product such as a book or CD comes out, it becomes available to the public.
- materialise β to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
- materialize β to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
- reveal β to make known; disclose; divulge: to reveal a secret.
- emanate β (of something abstract but perceptible) Issue or spread out from (a source).
- make up β the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- come up β If someone comes up or comes up to you, they approach you until they are standing close to you.
- break through β If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
- hang over β to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- take shape β the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
noun loom
- immediacy β the state, condition, or quality of being immediate.
- adjacency β the quality or state of being adjacent; nearness
- contiguity β the state of being contiguous; nearness or contact
- nearness β close; to a point or place not far away: Come near so I won't have to shout.
- vicinage β the region near or about a place; vicinity.