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=include component="comments" page="LOOM" limit="10" = =VOICE PRINT FOR THE WORD LOOM= Step Three: This is what the voice print of "loom" looks like when recorded using the program "audacity": 

=DEFINITION OF THE WORD LOOM = loom //n.//A distorted, threatening appearance of something, as through fog or darkness.
 * **1.** To come into view as a massive, distorted, or indistinct image: "I faced the icons that loomed through the veil of incense" (Fergus M. Bordewich). See Synonyms at [|appear].
 * 2.** To appear to the mind in a magnified and threatening form: "Stalin looms over the whole human tragedy of 1930-1933" (Robert Conquest).
 * 3.** To seem imminent; impend: Revolution loomed but the aristocrats paid no heed.

[//Perhaps of Scandinavian origin//.] ||

//n.//An apparatus for making thread or yarn into cloth by weaving strands together at right angles. //tr.v.//**loomed**, **loom·ing**, **looms**To weave (a tapestry, for example) on a loom.
 * loom 2 (l[[image:http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/oomacr.gif align="absbottom"]]m)

[Middle English, from Old English , //tool// : , //collective pref.//; see **yclept** + , //tool// (as in , //tools//).] ||



=VIDEO: THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE= Plato's allegory of the cave is explained in the following video.  media type="file" key="The Allegory of the Cave - Plato.mp4" width="300" height="300"