adj
Meaning 1
Made of loam; consisting of loam.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
loam
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ləʊm/
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UK, dialectal: /luːm/
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US: /loʊm/
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US, New-England, dialectal: /lum/
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US: /lʊm/
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rhymes with -əʊm
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rhymes with -uːm
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homophone: loom (one pronunciation)
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CMU ARPABET: L OW1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 3
A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: arts, crafts, engineering, hobbies, lifestyle, metallurgy, metalworking, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
Meaning 4
To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: soil, dirt
Narrower terms: regur, regur soil, chernozemic soil
History
Etymology
From Middle English lom, lome, from Old English lām (“clay, mud, mire, earth”), from Proto-West Germanic *laim, from Proto-Germanic *laimaz, *laimô (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2leyH- (“to smear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leem (“loam”), West Frisian liem (“loam”), Dutch leem (“loam”), German Lehm (“loam”). Related also to lime.
Across languages
Translations
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: terra franca — type of soil
- Chinese Mandarin: 壤土 (rǎngtǔ) — type of soil
- Chinese Mandarin: 沃土 (wòtǔ) — type of soil
- Chinese Mandarin: 亞砂土 /亚砂土 (yàshātǔ) — type of soil
- Chinese Mandarin: 壚坶 /垆坶 (lúmǔ) — type of soil
- Crimean Tatar: qumbalçıq — type of soil
- Czech: hlína — type of soil
- Czech: půda — type of soil
- Danish: ler — type of soil
- Dutch: leem — type of soil
- Estonian: liivsavimullad — type of soil
- Finnish: hiue — type of soil
- French: terre grasse — type of soil
- French: sol franc — type of soil
- Galician: marxa — type of soil
- Galician: marga — type of soil
- Galician: mardeña — type of soil
- German: Lehm — type of soil
- Bavarian German: Lahm — type of soil
- Bavarian German: Loam — type of soil
- Hungarian: vályog — type of soil
- Italian: terra grassa — type of soil
- Japanese: ローム (rōm) — type of soil
- Māori: onematua — type of soil
- Māori: oneharuru — type of soil
- Māori: tuatara — type of soil
- Old Norse: leir — type of soil
- Polish: glina zwykła — type of soil
- Polish: ił — type of soil
- Portuguese: solo franco — type of soil
- Russian: сугли́нок (suglínok) — type of soil
- Serbo-Croatian: ìlovača — type of soil
- Spanish: suelo franco — type of soil
- Swedish: mylla — type of soil
- Swedish: lerjord — type of soil
- Turkish: balçık — type of soil
- Welsh: lom — type of soil
- Finnish: muottihiekka — mixture for making moulds
- German: Formsand — mixture for making moulds
- Polish: piasek formierski — mixture for making moulds
- Swedish: formsand — mixture for making moulds
- Dutch: belemen — to cover or fill with loam
- Finnish: peittää hiukeeseen — to cover or fill with loam
- German: einlehmen — to cover or fill with loam
- Polish: pokrywać iłem — to cover or fill with loam
- Polish: pokryć iłem — to cover or fill with loam