Usually means: Device for weaving threads together.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. loom: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. loom: Merriam-Webster
  3. loom, loom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. loom, loom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. loom: Collins English Dictionary
  6. loom: Vocabulary.com
  7. Loom, loom: Wordnik
  8. loom: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. loom: Wiktionary
  10. loom: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. loom: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. loom: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. LOOM, l.o.o.m: Dictionary.com
  14. loom (n.), loom (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. loom: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. LOOM (ontology), Loom (band), Loom (computer game), Loom (disambiguation), Loom (video game), Loom, The Loom: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Loom: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. loom: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. loom: Rhymezone
  20. Loom: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. loom: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. loom: FreeDictionary.org
  23. loom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. loom: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. loom: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loom: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. loom: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loom: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. loom: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LOOM: Acronym Finder
  2. loom: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. loom: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Loom: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Loom: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
noun:  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.
noun:  The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade; the shaft.
noun:  (dated) loon (bird of order Gaviiformes)
verb:  To appear indistinctly, e.g. when seen on the horizon or through the murk.
verb:  (figurative) 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.
verb:  (figurative) To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.
noun:  A distorted appearance of something as seen indistinctly or from afar.

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