looming
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈluːmɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlumɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -uːmɪŋ
- Hyphenation: loom‧ing
Noun
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?
Estonian
Noun
looming (genitive loomingu, partitive loomingut)
- creative work
Declension
| Declension of looming (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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