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It was a frame loom, equipped with treadles to lift the warp threads, leaving the weaver's hands free to pass and beat the weft thread. [47] A pit loom has a pit for the treadles, reducing the stress transmitted through the much shorter frame. [48] In a wooden vertical-shaft loom, the heddles are fixed in place in the shaft.
Loom, West Virginia, US; Wiring loom, an electrical cable assembly or harness; Rainbow Loom, a plastic toy loom used to weave black rubber bands into bracelets and charms; LOOM (ontology), a knowledge representation language; Loyal Order of Moose; Loom, Inc., a technology company
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
The word "broadcloth" was originally used just as an antonym to "narrow cloth", but later came to mean a particular type of cloth. [3] The 1909 Webster's dictionary (as reprinted in 1913) defines broadcloth as "A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half [140 cm]);—so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.
About 2 million baked goods sold nationwide — including some doughnuts and coffee rolls purchased at Dunkin' — were recalled last month due to concerns the products might be contaminated with ...
The machine used for weaving is the loom. and knitting is another method of cloth manufacturing. Bolts [ B ] are the rolls of cloth manufactured by a loom or knitting machine, which moves through subsequent processes of textile finishing .