different between loom vs loos

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lu?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lum/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English lome, from Old English l?ma, ?el?ma (“tool, utensil, implement, article of furniture, household effect”) (also as andl?ma, and?el?ma, andl?ma (“utensil, instrument, implement, tool, vessel”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Middle Dutch allame (“tool”). Perhaps originally meaning "a thing of frequent use", in which case, akin to Old English ?el?me (“often, frequently, continually, repeatedly”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *l?miz, *l?mijaz (“lame, halt”), from Proto-Indo-European *lem- (“to break, soften”). Compare Old High German giluomo, kil?mo (“often, frequently”), Old English lama (“lame”). See lame.

Noun

loom (plural looms)

1. A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.

   heirloom, workloom

2. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.
   • January 8, 1751, Samuel Johnson, "The Mischiefs of Total Idleness" in The Rambler

     Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff.

3. The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade, the shaft.

Derived terms

• backstrap loom
• handloom
• heirloom
• power loom
• workloom

Translations

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

loom (plural looms)

1. (dated) loon (bird of order Gaviiformes)

Translations

Etymology 3

From Old Norse ljóma (“to shine”).

Verb

loom (third-person singular simple present looms, present participle looming, simple past and past participle loomed) (intransitive)

1. To appear indistinctly, eg. when seen on the horizon or through the murk.

2. (figuratively) To appear in an exaggerated or threatening form; (of a person or thing) to tower; (of an idea) to impressively or intimidatingly occupy the mind; (of an event) to be imminent.
3. (figuratively) To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.
   • 1822, John M. Mason, The Evangelical Ministry Exemplified in the Apostle Paul

     On no occasion does he [Paul] loom so high, and shine so gloriously, as in the context.

Noun

loom (plural looms)

1. A distorted appearance of something as seen indistinctly or from afar.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• mool

Dutch

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo?m/
• Rhymes: -o?m

Adjective

loom (comparative lomer, superlative loomst)

1. lazy, pleasantly slow

Inflection

Adverb

loom

1. lazily

Estonian

Etymology

Derived from looma (“to create”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?m/
• Hyphenation: loom
• Rhymes: -o?m

Noun

loom (genitive looma, partitive looma)

1. animal
2. (informal) mammal

Declension

Derived terms

• loomaaed
• metsloom

Pnar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lom/

Noun

loom

1. hill

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo?oz, IPA^(key): /lu?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z
• Homophone: lose

Noun

loos

1. plural of loo

Etymology 2

From Middle English l?s (“reputation, renown, fame, infamy, rumor, news”), from Old French los, from Latin laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”). Compare laud.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo?os, IPA^(key): /lu?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s
• Homophone: loose

Noun

loos (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Praise, fame, reputation.

   • Hercules that had the grete loos

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, vi, xii, 12

     That much he feared, least reprochfull blame

     With foule dishonour him mote blot therefore;

     Besides the losse of so much loos and fame,

     As through the world thereby should glorifie his name.

Anagrams

• OOLs, Oslo, sloo, solo, sool

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *llu?d, from Proto-Celtic *?l?tos.

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [lo?z]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [lu?z]

Adjective

loos

1. grey

See also

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo?s/
• Hyphenation: loos
• Rhymes: -o?s

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch loos, from Old Dutch *l?s, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz.

Adjective

loos (comparative lozer, superlative meest loos or loost)

1. blank, empty
2. idle
3. amiss, wrong, problematic
4. sly, cunning
5. (obsolete) clever, insightful

Inflection

Derived terms

• loosheid

See also

• -loos

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

loos

1. first-person singular present indicative of lozen
2. imperative of lozen

Anagrams

• Oslo

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *l?s (attested only in compounds as -l?s), from Proto-West Germanic *laus. More at lease, loose.

Adjective

loos

1. empty