transcription, транскрипция: [ lu:m ]
( looms, looming, loomed)
1.
If something looms over you, it appears as a large or unclear shape, often in a frightening way.
...the bleak mountains that loomed out of the blackness and towered around us.
VERB : V prep / adv , also V
2.
If a worrying or threatening situation or event is looming , it seems likely to happen soon. ( JOURNALISM )
Another government spending crisis is looming in the United States...
The threat of renewed civil war looms ahead.
...the looming threat of recession.
VERB : V , V adv / prep , V-ing
3.
A loom is a machine that is used for weaving thread into cloth.
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