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单词 weave
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weaveverb

uk/wiːv/us/wiːv/

weave verb (MAKE)

[ I or T ] wove or US also weaved, woven or US also weaved to make cloth by repeatedly crossing a single thread through two sets of long threads on a loom (= special frame):

This type of wool is woven into fabric which will make jackets.

[ T ] wove or US also weaved, woven or US also weaved to twist long objects together, or to make something by doing this:

We were shown how to roughly weave ferns and grass together to make a temporary shelter.
It takes great skill to weave a basket from/out of rushes.

[ T ] literary wove or US also weaved, woven or US also weaved to form something from several different things or to combine several different things, in a complicated or skilled way:

The biography is woven from the many accounts which exist of things she did.

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Textiles: general words

  • baize
  • bias
  • bolt
  • brocade
  • cloth
  • cutpiece
  • denier 1
  • drapery
  • filament
  • gauze
  • lint
  • nap
  • padding
  • pile
  • strand
  • swatch
  • textile
  • the weft
  • upholstery
  • wadding

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Bending, twisting and curving
Crafts
Connecting and combining

weave verb (MOVE QUICKLY)

[ I usually + adv/prep ] weaved, weaved to go or make a path by moving quickly and changing direction often, especially to avoid hitting things:

The boy weaved through/between/in and out of stationary traffic on a bicycle.

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Moving quickly

  • beetle
  • belt
  • bob
  • bowl down/along sth
  • careen
  • career
  • glide
  • gun
  • leg
  • make off
  • outran
  • pelt
  • rush
  • scamper
  • scoot
  • scrabble
  • scramble
  • shoot
  • stampede
  • trot

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weaver
noun [ C ] uk/ˈwiː.vər/us/ˈwiː.vɚ/

a person whose job is weaving cloth and other materials:

basket weavers
weaving
noun [ U ] uk/ˈwiː.vɪŋ/us/ˈwiː.vɪŋ/

There has been increasing automation of spinning and weaving.

Idiom(s)

get weaving

weavenoun

uk/wiːv/us/wiːv/

weave noun (CLOTH)

[ C usually singular ] the way in which cloth has been woven, for example with the threads pulled firmly together, or the pattern produced by this process:

a tight weave
a striped/traditional weave

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Patterns and shapes

  • amorphous
  • arabesque
  • argyle
  • bar
  • cake
  • contour
  • geometry
  • grain
  • marbled
  • misshapen
  • motif
  • mottled
  • paisley
  • silhouette
  • spotted
  • stripe
  • striped
  • stripy
  • styloid
  • take shape idiom

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Textiles: general words

weave noun (HAIR)

[ C ] a piece of hair that is added to a person's own hair in order to make the hair thicker or longer:

To recreate Alexander the Great's mane of hair, the actor had blonde dye and a weave.
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