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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
weave
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a spider spins/weaves a web (=makes a network of threads)
▪ A spider had spun a web between the bars of the gate.
weave a spell (=do some magic)
▪ She wove a spell, so that he slept forever and never grew old.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
magic
▪ Morley weaves its magic only by using a hedge fund to protect the assets of shareholders.
▪ The writers have weaved their magic again.
pattern
▪ Among the enormous varieties of weaving patterns, there are two that we must pay particular attention to.
▪ They mechanically weave into intricate patterns, twirling their 10-pound rifles with the swiftness of a baton.
▪ It is also true that several novelists, such as Carpentier and Fuentes, delight in weaving elaborate, formal patterns.
▪ We are not talking simply of the diffusion of a particular weaving and colour pattern.
▪ They stayed much more closely together, weaving intricate patterns round each other.
side
▪ But the tracer was weaving from side to side.
▪ Arjun was weaving from side to side as he walked.
▪ Suddenly, he was crouching down behind it, still hanging on, but weaving from side to side.
spell
▪ They are, in the most fundamental sense, magical: they weave spells, they conjure something out of nothing.
▪ How long did it take to weave a spell?
▪ She might even be weaving a spell to tangle her feet or make her lose her way in the wood!
story
▪ We talk to identify with new heroes, to dream new lifelines, to weave new stories into the fabric of ourselves.
▪ You have to sort of weave a story.
way
▪ Only minutes before the final whistle, Halliday weaved his way infield, causing the disruption from which Morris was to score.
▪ Delighted shoppers looked on as the dancers weaved their way past Darlington Dolphin Centre.
▪ Garcia, weaving his way around the stage and through the band, plays trumpet, sings and dances.
▪ The coach driver weaves his way through washed-out bits of road.
▪ Soon a line of toddlers and caretakers holding infants joined Miles's parade, weaving their way throughout the room.
▪ He had seen Nehushtah only once as she'd weaved her way, in a froth of acolytes, across the gardens.
▪ Suddenly, I see a boat weaving its way between the improbable pink granite rocks and I experience both relief and excitement.
web
▪ Textrix weaves a sheet web composed of extremely fine and closely woven silk.
▪ He trained them to store supplies, to weave a secret communications web and to eradicate spies and informers.
▪ Some of us weave small tight webs.
■ VERB
bob
▪ Like against Buster Mathis, he was staying in close so he could bob and weave.
▪ For two-plus rounds, Tyson was unable to connect as Mathis bobbed and weaved.
▪ Expect more bobbing and weaving while this one sorts itself out.
▪ This is now an election year, and the conventional wisdom has President Clinton bobbing and weaving toward the center.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
open weave/texture
▪ The cheese is only lightly pressed, which explains its slightly open texture.
▪ The inevitably open texture of such a document leaves a great degree of discretion in the hands of the judiciary.
work/weave your magic
▪ Across the country, says Fitness magazine, enterprising and agile therapists are working their magic on patients while running alongside them.
▪ Biemiller referred the congressman to this doctor, who again worked his magic.
▪ But now the two men have changed places, and the boat has worked its magic.
▪ Charles was one such, and he invited her to Highgrove to work her magic.
▪ He said his name was Christmas and he had worked his magic act in theatres and royal palaces all over the world.
▪ Morley weaves its magic only by using a hedge fund to protect the assets of shareholders.
▪ Paris works its magic on me.
▪ Two others have medical problems that have to be corrected before he can work his magic.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Only a few of the Navajo women still weave full time.
▪ The old highway weaved its way through Tucson.
▪ The river weaved across the plain, towards the sea.
▪ Visitors to the center can weave a white oak basket.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It is also true that several novelists, such as Carpentier and Fuentes, delight in weaving elaborate, formal patterns.
▪ Norte weaves her observations into a witty text, filling it with multicultural detail.
▪ She decides to weave the most beautiful blanket in the world and falls into a trance.
▪ The trainees danced and weaved like boxers.
▪ They are, in the most fundamental sense, magical: they weave spells, they conjure something out of nothing.
▪ We were shown how to summarize an opinion, argue with it, weave it into our own interpretations.
▪ Why not discover them and weave them into your do-it-yourself material.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A weave of geographical / ecological representation and spiritual / cultural representation would result.
▪ But the issue penetrates, or ought to, rather deeper than the fine weave of legal technicality.
▪ Guitar legend Ry Cooder adds his simpatico guitar weaves.
▪ Nylon: A plain weave nylon.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weave

Weave \Weave\ (w[=e]v), v. t. [imp. Wove (w[=o]v); p. p. Woven (w[=o]v"'n), Wove; p. pr. & vb. n. Weaving. The regular imp. & p. p. Weaved (w[=e]vd), is rarely used.] [OE. weven, AS. wefan; akin to D. weven, G. weben, OHG. weban, Icel. vefa, Sw. v["a]fva, Dan. v[ae]ve, Gr. "yfai`nein, v., "y`fos web, Skr. [=u]r[.n]av[=a]bhi spider, lit., wool weaver. Cf. Waper, Waffle, Web, Weevil, Weft, Woof.]

  1. To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately.

    This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.
    --Shak.

    That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired silk To deck her sons.
    --Milton.

    And for these words, thus woven into song.
    --Byron.

  2. To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story.

    When she weaved the sleided silk.
    --Shak.

    Her starry wreaths the virgin jasmin weaves.
    --Ld. Lytton.

Weave

Weave \Weave\, v. i.

  1. To practice weaving; to work with a loom.

  2. To become woven or interwoven.

Weave

Weave \Weave\, n. A particular method or pattern of weaving; as, the cassimere weave.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
weave

Old English wefan "to weave, form by interlacing yarn," figuratively "devise, contrive, arrange" (class V strong verb; past tense wæf, past participle wefen), from Proto-Germanic *weban (cognates: Old Norse vefa, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Dutch weven, Old High German weban, German weben "to weave"), from PIE *webh- "to weave;" also "to move quickly" (cognates: Sanskrit ubhnati "he laces together," Persian baftan "to weave," Greek hyphe, hyphos "web," Old English webb "web").\n

\nThe form of the past tense altered in Middle English from wave to wove. Extended sense of "combine into a whole" is from late 14c.; meaning "go by twisting and turning" is from 1640s. Related: Wove; woven; weaving.

weave

1580s, "something woven," from weave (v.). Meaning "method or pattern of weaving" is from 1888.

weave

c.1200, "to move from one place to another," of uncertain origin, perhaps from weave (v.1). From early 14c. as "move to and fro;" 1590s as "move side to side." Use in boxing is from 1818. Related: Weaved; weaving.

Wiktionary
weave

Etymology 1 n. 1 A type or way of weaving. 2 Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair. vb. 1 To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. 2 To spin a cocoon or a web. 3 To unite by close connection or intermixture. 4 To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate. Etymology 2

vb. (context intransitive English) To move by turning and twisting.

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WordNet
weave

  1. n. pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric

  2. [also: woven, wove]

weave

  1. v. interlace by or as it by weaving [syn: interweave] [ant: unweave]

  2. create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton; "tissue textiles" [syn: tissue]

  3. sway to and fro [syn: waver]

  4. to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body" [syn: wind, thread, meander, wander]

  5. [also: woven, wove]

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Wikipedia
Weave

Weave may refer to:

  • Hair weave, an artificial hair integration
  • Mozilla Weave, a browser synchronization feature
  • Weaving, a method of fabric production
  • Bob and weave, a boxing maneuver
  • Weave (Forgotten Realms), a mechanism for using magic in Dungeons & Dragons fantasy games.
  • Weave (digital printing), a digital printing technique
  • Weave Magazine, an American literary magazine based in Pittsburgh
  • Weave Bridge, a bridge at The University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • WEAVE, a secondary program of WEB
  • Weave, an internet of things protocol by Google owned company Nest Labs (see also Project Brillo)
See also
  • "we've", a commonly used contraction of "we have"
  • Weeve, a crowdfunding website
  • Weev, a notorious internet troll
Weave (Forgotten Realms)

In the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the Weave is the source of both arcane and divine spellcasting.

In addition to the Weave, there is also a Shadow Weave created by the goddess Shar; because Shar is a goddess of secrets, its secrets are kept mostly to herself.

Weave (digital printing)

Weaving is a technique used in digital printing to reduce visual bands resulting from the proximity of adjacent print nozzles. Horizontal rows are printed out of order and "weaved" together with subsequent passes of the print head.

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Usage examples of "weave".

He must needs weave his phantasy into some quietly melancholy fabric of didactic or allegorical cast, in which his meekly resigned cynicism may display with naive moral appraisal the perfidy of a human race which he cannot cease to cherish and mourn despite his insight into its hypocrisy.

Heaven were reproduced on earth, until a web of fiction and allegory was woven, partly by art and partly by the ignorance of error, which the wit of man, with his limited means of explanation, will never unravel.

Naturally it followed that Symbolism soon became more complicated, and all the powers of Heaven were reproduced on earth, until a web of fiction and allegory was woven, which the wit of man, with his limited means of explanation, will never unravel.

With Ceis plugged into the little battery amplifier, she sat on the back seat, weaving a spell of unseeing about the three vehicles.

Even older than the lotus and the rose, and more profoundly woven into the very fabric of the universe, is the archetypal form of the Spiral.

SJHLJh stepped last of all through the archway of light that she had woven between star and standing stone.

More than anything, she wanted to learn that dance, to weave her own sword in graceful circles, to feel her bare feet become so attuned to the moist grass below them that they could feel every blade and every contour in the ground.

Both of them laughed as they were led to where a group of brahmacharyas sat amid a pile of freshly cut balsa wood logs, a pot of tar slowly melting over a cookfire, and vines and creepers they were weaving into ropes to use as lashings.

And there were trees-not just the stunted stands of Alpine willow and Glang-ma, whose long branches the nomads used to weave their intricate basketry, or the twisted bush that provided the Yeti-wood for their fires-but around Lhasa were forests of spruce and fir, pine and spreading yew, black and white birches, oaks and poplar.

The many glory-garlands weave, Whose presence not our sight attests Till wonder with the splendour blent, And passion for the beauty flown, Make evanescence permanent, The thing at heart our endless own.

She was feeling the effects of the bouza, and weaved back and forth where she stood.

General Britten thought that if he could take these people and weave their hopes into one voice, then he could convince anyone, and the United States Congress in particular, that the American people were as ready for war as they had ever been.

For a good half hour he went on, up and down, back and forth, weaving a glowing picture of that long-ago battle when Buri earned his name.

Jacob and the females were moving swiftly, their articulated feet padding silently over deep humus and soft green moss, weaving up and down, under and around immense, ancient pillars of old-growth forest with seeming indifference.

Like the huipil blouse and skirt worn by the india and half-caste women, hundreds of male figures in the rough cotton shirt, pants, and woven maguey mantas would throng the plaza.