weave

(wēv)

v. wove (wōv), wo·ven (wō′vən), weav·ing, weaves

v.tr.

a. To make (cloth) by interlacing the threads of the weft and the warp on a loom.

b. To interlace (threads, for example) into cloth.

2. To construct by interlacing or interweaving strips or strands of material: weave a basket.

a. To interweave or combine (elements) into a complex whole: wove the incidents into a story.

b. To contrive (something complex or elaborate) in this way: weave a tale.

4. To introduce (another element) into a complex whole; work in: wove folk tunes into the symphony.

5. To attach hair extensions to (hair).

6. To spin (a web, for example).

7. past tense & past participle often weaved To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side: weaved our way through the heavy traffic.

v.intr.

a. To engage in weaving; make cloth.

b. To work at a loom.

2. past tense and past participle often weaved To move in and out or sway from side to side.

1. The pattern, method of weaving, or construction of a fabric: a twill weave; a loose weave.

2. A hairstyle in which hair extensions are attached to existing strands of hair.

[Middle English weven, from Old English wefan; see webh- in Indo-European roots.]

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

weaving - creating fabric

handicraft - a craft that requires skillful hands

netting - creating nets

Translations

Weberei

tessitura

weaving

[ˈwiːvɪŋ]

A. N → tejido m
basket weaving → cestería f

B. CPD weaving machine N → telar m
weaving mill N → tejeduría f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

weaving

[ˈwiːvɪŋ] n → tissage m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

weaving

n → Weberei f; (as craft) → Webkunst f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

weaving

[ˈwiːvɪŋ] n → tessitura

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Queequeg and I were mildly employed weaving what is called a sword-mat, for an additional lashing to our boat.

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'Have you nothing to say about it?' asked one of the men who was weaving.

The impostors now wanted more money, more silk, and more gold to use in their weaving. They put it all in their own pockets, and there came no threads on the loom, but they went on as they had done before, working at the empty loom.

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Through the lacings of the leaves, the great sun seemed a flying shuttle weaving the unwearied verdure.

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Possibly in ten or twenty generations we might have worked up to the weaving of baskets.

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= to prepare flax for weaving as linen it is softened(technically, "retted") by soaking in water, separated from its woody fibers by beating ("scutched"--this seems to be what Cooper means by "crackling"), and finally combed ("hatcheled")}

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But whether old or new, Spenser's power of using words and of weaving them together was wonderful.

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It was a slow, clumsy, and costly way of weaving cloth, this cottage system of manufacture.

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The shepherd himself, though he had good reason to believe that the bag held nothing but flaxen thread, or else the long rolls of strong linen spun from that thread, was not quite sure that this trade of weaving, indispensable though it was, could be carried on entirely without the help of the Evil One.

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As the Phaeacians are the best sailors in the world, so their women excel all others in weaving, for Minerva has taught them all manner of useful arts, and they are very intelligent.

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All threading and knitting and weaving do their fingers understand: thus do they make the hose of the spirit!

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But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished.

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