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):
[ T ] wove or US also weaved, woven or US also weaved to twist long objects together, or to make something by doing this:
[ 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:
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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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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:
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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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a person whose job is weaving cloth and other materials:
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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:
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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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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: