Betekenis van loom In het Nederlands

• 0 to appear as a large, often frightening or unclear shape or object:

  • Dark storm clouds loomed on the horizon.

• 1 If an unwanted or unpleasant event looms, it seems likely to happen soon and causes worry:

  • Her final exams are looming.

  • Here, too, the threat of unemployment has been looming on the horizon.

  • The threat of closure looms over the workforce.

• 2 a piece of equipment for weaving (= making thread into cloth)

• 3 to appear, esp. when seeming large and threatening:

  • Record budget deficits, now running well above $200 billion a year, loom over the recovery.

• 4 a piece of equipment on which thread is woven into cloth

• 5 if an unpleasant event looms, it will probably happen and makes people worry:

  • Stocks of heating oil are at their lowest levels for years, and another crisis may be looming.

  • The company is in serious financial trouble, with more debt looming on the horizon.

  • sth looms over sb/sth The threat of closure looms over the workforce.

• 6 if something looms large, it becomes very important and could cause serious problems:

  • Food retailers became nervous as the threat of a price war loomed large.