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Loom vs Coom - What's the difference?

loom | coom |

As nouns the difference between loom and coom

is that loom is a utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general or loom can be (dated) loon (bird of order gaviformes ) while coom is soot, smut.

As verbs the difference between loom and coom

is that loom is to impend; to threaten or hang over while coom is .

loom

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) lome, from (etyl) . See (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
  • 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.
  • * Rambler
    • Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff.
  • That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock
    • Derived terms
    * hand loom * power loom

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) loon (bird of order Gaviformes )

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to impend; to threaten or hang over.
    • The clouds loomed over the mountains.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=August 7 , author=Chris Bevan , title=Man City 2 - 3 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=With no extra-time to be played and penalties looming , the Portuguese winger pounced on some hesitant City defending to run on to a Wayne Rooney clearance, round Joe Hart and slot home.}}
  • To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.
  • * J. M. Mason
    • On no occasion does he [Paul] loom so high, and shine so gloriously, as in the context.

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    coom

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (-)
  • soot, smut
  • dust
  • grease

    • Etymology 2

    See (come).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1838–1839 , , Chapman and Hall (1839), chapter XLII, page 411:
    • “Not a bit,” replied the Yorkshireman, extending his mouth from ear to ear. “There I lay, snoog in schoolmeasther’s bed long efther it was dark, and nobody coom' nigh the pleace. ‘Weel!’ thinks I, ‘he’s got a pretty good start, and if he bean’t whoam by noo, he never will be; so you may '''coom''' as quick as you loike, and foind us reddy’—that is, you know, schoolmeasther might ' coom .”

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