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Weaving vs Looming - What's the difference?

weaving | looming |

As nouns the difference between weaving and looming

is that weaving is the process of making woven material on a loom while looming is the condition of something that looms or towers.

As verbs the difference between weaving and looming

is that weaving is present participle of lang=en while looming is present participle of lang=en.

weaving

English

(wikipedia weaving)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The process of making woven material on a loom.
  • (countable) A piece of such material.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 28, author=Holland Cotter, title=Lenore Tawney, an Innovator in Weaving, Dies at 100, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In the 1960s, in addition to small-scale weavings influenced by American Indian, Peruvian and African art, she began producing enigmatic assemblage boxes and collages, including postcard collages, which she sent to friends.}}
  • (countable) An unsteady motion back and forth.
  • * 1980 , David Madsen, Black Plume
    • Through some ill-understood quirk of balance, his drunken weavings did nothing to upset the tray — it seemed to remain calmly horizontal.

    Verb

    (head)
    • The motorcycle is weaving in and out of traffic

    • looming

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The condition of something that looms or towers.
  • * (Thomas Carlyle)
    • But if no world exist in the man; if nothing but continents of empty vapour, of greedy self-conceits, commonplace hearsays, and indistinct loomings of a sordid chaos exist in him,