单词 | to loom large |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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