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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
woof
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I began to understand our pattern was set and that there was a warp and woof to the larger world.
▪ I could hear the warp and woof of his life.
▪ One of them was the mountain chicken, emitting a discreet, woof.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woof

Woof \Woof\ (w[=oo]f), n. [OE. oof, AS. [=o]wef, [=o]web, [=a]web; on, an, on + wef, web, fr. wefan to weave. The initial w is due to the influence of E. weave. See On, Weave, and cf. Abb.]

  1. The threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.

  2. Texture; cloth; as, a pall of softest woof.
    --Pope.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
woof

"weft, texture, fabric," Old English owef, from o- "on" + wefan "to weave" (see weave). With excrescent -w- by influence of warp or weft.

woof

dog bark noise, first recorded 1804, echoic.

Wiktionary
woof

Etymology 1 n. 1 The set of yarns placed crosswise in a loom, interlaced with the warp, carried by the shuttle. 2 A fabric; the texture of a fabric. Etymology 2

interj. (context humorous English) Expression of strong physical attraction for someone. n. The sound a dog makes when barking. vb. To make a woofing sound.

WordNet
woof

n. the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving [syn: weft, filling, pick]

Wikipedia
Woof

Woof or WOOF may refer to:

  • Bark (sound), a sound made by a dog
  • Weft in weaving, the threads or yarn that run from side to side on a loom
WOOF (AM)

WOOF (560 AM / 100.1 FM, "The Ball") is a radio station licensed to serve Dothan, Alabama, USA. The station is owned by WOOF, Inc.

WOOF broadcasts a gospel music format on Sundays and sports talk the rest of the week. The station features some syndicated programming from Paul Finebaum and ESPN Radio. Began airing Foxsports just before July 4, 2016. In late January 2010, WOOF, Inc. purchased the 100.1 translator (W261AT), which was previously relaying the WEEL (700 AM) signal.

Woof (label)

Woof Records is a record-label founded by Tim Hodgkinson and Bill Gilonis

Woof (software)

Woof is a software application used to build a Puppy Linux distribution from another Linux distribution. This application must be run inside Puppy Linux, and an internet connection is required in order to download the other Linux distro's binary packages.

The CD-Remaster program available in Puppy Linux can be used to build variants of the Puppy Linux distribution.

Woof (song)

"Woof" is the second single released from Snoop Dogg's third album, Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told. The song featured Snoop's labelmates Fiend and Mystikal and was produced by Beats By the Pound member Craig B and Master P.

"Woof" was a big hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 62. It found its best success on the Billboard Hot Rap Singles where it reached number 3.

Usage examples of "woof".

The Witch beheld it not, for in her hand She held a woof that dimmed the burning brand.

It is a town of activity and brisk trade, and manufactures a silk fabric in stripes of blue and black, and yellow and black, much used for making hakama and kimonos, a species of white silk crepe with a raised woof, which brings a high price in Tokiyo shops, fusuma, and clogs.

It was doglike at first, which elicited another woof from Goofus, but then it became less feral and, while not exactly human, began to sound like something that could form words, though none came.

And ever Time tossed him bitterly to and fro As a shuttle inlaying a perilous warp of woe In the woof of things from terminal snow to snow, Till, lo!

There were velvets, lawns, percales, soft woofs, mohair, swansdown, shalloon, prunella, tammy, tulle, organdy, crepe, the delicate French laces.

Veil waved to and fro suggestively, while Theos, his heart beating fast, watched its shining woof with straining eyes and a sense of suffocation in his throat, .

Papa Bear was woofing and rolling around just like he used to, thretening to run off into the woods with a hole arm lode of kids that he would eat up later in his cave.

His countenance, with radiant glory bright, Beneath his graceful locks far shines around, And the light vest with which his limbs are bound, Of woof aethereal delicately twined, Glows in the stream of the uplifting wind.

But if a goldfish went woof woof, it would be an empty threat, because what harm could a goldfish do you, even a very large, pumped-up on steroids kind of goldfish who had possibly studied all the Sonny Chiba films and knew a lot of spiffy moves?

Its plumes are as feathers of sunny frost, Its limbs gleam white, through the wind-flowing folds Of its white robe, woof of ethereal pearl.

A hopeful woof from Woggly reminded him that it was time for the pets to eat as well.

The higher shines down upon the lower, and this illumination is Providence in its highest aspect: The Reason-Principle has two phases, one which creates the things of process and another which links them with the higher beings: these higher beings constitute the over-providence on which depends that lower providence which is the secondary Reason-Principle inseparably united with its primal: the two--the Major and Minor Providence--acting together produce the universal woof, the one all-comprehensive Providence.

Clasping its gray rents with a verdurous woof, A hanging dome of leaves, a canopy moon-proof.

Some old dog woofed a warning from the dungheap near our hives, back among the hollyhock and mimosa.

Many body peofle woof look atat her saying, 'Why does that Araminta Ditch keep larfing?