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单词 to loom large
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to loom large
a. intransitive. To appear indistinctly; to come into view in an enlarged and indefinite form. Also with up. Often with adjective complement, as to loom large.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > appear or become visible
ariseOE
to come in (also to, on, etc.) placec1225
'peara1382
appear1382
kithea1400
to show out?a1425
muster?1435
to come forthc1449
to look outa1470
apparish1483
to show forth1487
come1531
to come out?1548
peer1568
to look through1573
glimpse1596
loom1605
rise1615
emicate1657
emike1657
present1664
opena1691
emerge1700
dawn1744
to come down the pike1812
to open out1813
to crop out1849
unmask1858
to come through1868
to show up1879
to come (etc.) out of thin air1932
surface1961
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > become indistinctly visible
loom1605
dimmer1873
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vii. 233 Heere smoakes a Castle, there a Citie fumes, And heere a Shipp vpon th' Ocean loomes [Fr. Et là flote vne nef sur Neptune irrité].
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words (at cited word) A Ship Loomes a great or a small sail, a term used in Navigation, and signifieth as much as a Ship seems a great or a little Ship.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Looming She looms large afore the wind.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms at Mirer To loom, or appear indistinctly.
1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage vi. 87 We saw the land looming.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxvi. 136 A great ship loomed up out of the fog.
1846 J. Keble Lyra Innocentium 124 The hard stern outlines loom around Of hill by many a frost embrowned.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xv. 110 Men are magnified to giants, and brigs ‘loom up’, as the sailors term it, into ships of the line.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 112 Still the summit loomed above us.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xiv. 134 A mist through which Mr. Inspector loomed vague and large.
1900 J. G. Frazer Pausanias 53 The haze through which the sun's disc looms red and lurid.
in extended use.jocular1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings I. v. 37 He understood it was quite a ladies' affair, and loomed in, dressed up to the nines.
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