different between loom vs sloom

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slu?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English *sloume, sloumbe, slume, from Old English sl?ma (“sleep, slumber”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?m- (“to be slack, loose, or limp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“limp, flabby”). Compare slumber and Dutch sloom.

Alternative forms

• sloum

Noun

sloom (plural slooms)

1. A gentle sleep; slumber.

Derived terms

• sloomy

Etymology 2

From Middle English slumen, slummen, from Old English *sl?mian (“to slumber, sleep gently”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?m- (“to be slack, loose, or limp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“limp, flabby”).

Alternative forms

• sloum, sleam

Verb

sloom (third-person singular simple present slooms, present participle slooming, simple past and past participle sloomed)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) To sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep.
   • a. 1853, Jane Ermina Locke, "Elia", in The Recalled: In Voices of the Past, and Poems of the Ideal, James Munroe and Company (1854), page 193:

     To his castle’s portal, / At the morning gloaming, / Bore they all the mortal / From the battle’s foaming, / Of the white bannered warrior knight, / Cold in his armor slooming!

   • 1900, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Maid of Maiden lane, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 181:

     Then the doctor was slooming and nodding, and waking up and saying a word or two, and relapsing again into semi-unconsciousness.

   • 1936, Esmond Quinterley, Ushering Interlude,^[1] The Fortune Press, page 66:

     The afternoon sun painted amber patterns on the Turkey red hearthrug: the only splash of colour in the dun room. Potter sloomed in the arms of the chair.

   • 2001, Gemma O'Connor, Walking on Water,^[2][3] Berkley Publishing Group (2003), ?ISBN, page 205:

     He lay slooming half-asleep, half-awake, thinking about Tuesday afternoon.

2. (of plants or soil) To soften or rot with damp.
   • a. 1807, unidentified young farmer, letter to his father, printed in Edinburgh Farmers’ Magazine 1807, reprinted in The Farmer’s Register, Volume 7, Number 9 (1839 September 30), page 540:

     He adds, that one hundred bolls, or fifty quarters of wheat may be thrashed in a day of eight hours, unless the grain has been sloomed or mildewed; […]

   • 1824 August, “Remarks on Captian Napier's Essay on Store-Farming”, in The Farmer’s Magazine, Volume XXV, Archibald Constable and Company (publishers), page 329:

     […] no other spot over their whole pastured offered as much verdure at this time as these seemingly sloomed places.

   • c. 1854, Alexander J. Main, “Experiments with Special Manures”, in Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, W. Blackwood & Sons (1855), page 17:

     It must be explained, however, that in the latter case the “slooming” of the crop had an injurious effect on its yield; […]

References

• Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish language (1867) [4]
• sloom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Dictionary of the Scots Language, “sloom”

Anagrams

• looms, mools, osmol, slo mo, slo-mo, slomo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slo?m/
• Rhymes: -o?m

Etymology

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

Adjective

sloom (comparative slomer, superlative sloomst)

1. sluggish, lifeless

Inflection