weave
Plural: weaves
Noun
- pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric
- A type or way of weaving.
- Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.
Verb
Verb Forms: wove, weaved, woven, weaving, weaves
- To form fabric by interlacing threads, or to move in a winding path.
- interlace by or as if by weaving
- create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton
- sway to and fro
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
- To spin a cocoon or a web.
- To unite by close connection or intermixture.
- To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
- To move by turning and twisting.
- To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
- To move the head back and forth in a stereotyped pattern, typically as a symptom of stress.
Examples
- She could weave seemingly disconnected letters into a beautiful, high-scoring Scrabble word.
- Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
- That rug has a very tight weave.
- The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.
- The drunk weaved into another bar.
- This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.
- to weave the plot of a story
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English weven (“to weave”), from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave, braid”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian weeuwe, West Frisian weve, Dutch weven, German weben, Danish væve, Swedish väva, Norwegian Nynorsk veva, Icelandic vefa.
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 11
weave: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordweave: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
weave: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary