looming
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈluːmɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlumɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -uːmɪŋ
- Hyphenation: loom‧ing
Noun
[edit]looming (plural loomings)
- gerund of loom: the condition of something that looms or towers.
- 1850 May 1, Thomas Carlyle, “No. V. Stump-Orator.”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 155:
- 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, what will be the use of 'light' to show us that?
Verb
[edit]looming
- present participle and gerund of loom
Estonian
[edit]Noun
[edit]looming (genitive loomingu, partitive loomingut)
- creative work
Declension
[edit]Declension of looming (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | looming | loomingud | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | loomingu | ||
genitive | loomingute | ||
partitive | loomingut | loominguid | |
illative | loomingusse | loomingutesse loominguisse | |
inessive | loomingus | loomingutes loominguis | |
elative | loomingust | loomingutest loominguist | |
allative | loomingule | loomingutele loominguile | |
adessive | loomingul | loomingutel loominguil | |
ablative | loomingult | loomingutelt loominguilt | |
translative | loominguks | loominguteks loominguiks | |
terminative | loominguni | loominguteni | |
essive | loominguna | loomingutena | |
abessive | loominguta | loominguteta | |
comitative | loominguga | loomingutega |
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- English terms suffixed with -ing (gerund noun)
- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/uːmɪŋ
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