Loom vs. Zoom — What's the Difference?

A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry. The basic purpose of any loom is to hold the warp threads under tension to facilitate the interweaving of the weft threads.

To make a continuous low-pitched buzzing or humming sound

To come into view as a massive, distorted, or indistinct image

To move while making such a sound

To appear to the mind in a magnified and threatening form

To move rapidly

To seem imminent; impend

To increase suddenly and dramatically

To weave (a tapestry, for example) on a loom.

To act or proceed swiftly and energetically

A distorted, threatening appearance of something, as through fog or darkness.

To simulate movement rapidly away from or toward a subject using a zoom lens or other optical device.

An apparatus for making thread or yarn into cloth by weaving strands together at right angles.

(Computers) To cause text or other graphics in a window or frame to appear larger on the screen.

A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.

To cause to zoom.

A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.

The act or sound of zooming.

The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade; the shaft.

A zoom lens.

(dated) loon (bird of order Gaviiformes)

A humming noise from something moving very fast.

A distorted appearance of something as seen indistinctly or from afar.

(figurative) A quick ascent.

To appear indistinctly, e.g. when seen on the horizon or through the murk.

(figurative) A big increase.

(figurative) To appear in an exaggerated or threatening form; (of a person or thing) to tower; (of an idea) to impressively or intimidatingly occupy the mind; (of an event) to be imminent.

An augmentation of a view, by varying the focal length of a lens, or digitally.

(figurative) To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.

A video teleconferencing call.

See Loon, the bird.

To move fast with a humming noise.

A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.

(aviation) To zoom climb.

That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock.

To move rapidly.

The state of looming; esp., an unnatural and indistinct appearance of elevation or enlargement of anything, as of land or of a ship, seen by one at sea.

To go up sharply.

To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain, esp. from atmospheric influences; as, the ship looms large; the land looms high.

(photography) To change the focal length of a zoom lens.

To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.

To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.

To become imminent; to impend.

To participate in a video teleconferencing call.

A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile

Representing a humming sound

Come into view indistinctly, often threateningly;

Suggesting something moving quickly

Appear very large or occupy a commanding position;

Suggesting a sudden change, especially an improvement or an increase

Hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing;

A rapid rise

The act of rising upward into the air

Move along very quickly

Move with a low humming noise

Rise rapidly;