weave
IPA: wˈiv
noun
- A type or way of weaving.
- (cosmetics) Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.
verb
- 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.
- (intransitive) To move by turning and twisting.
- (transitive) To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
- (intransitive, of an animal) To move the head back and forth in a stereotyped pattern, typically as a symptom of stress.
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Examples of "weave" in Sentences
- Batiste is a soft, somewhat sheer fabric with a plain weave.
- One of the threads picked from the weave is the principle of limited knowledge ..
- If millions of people tend shamelessly to wear clothing with no lead in the weave, that is hardly Superman's fault.
- I call weave on that "stripper" hair of hers. question for her co-workers: how can you take yourselves seriously working for that woman?
- No other titles weave their magic in quite the same way, and you almost suspect Call of Pripyat's foibles are an integral part of how that magic works.
- In a couple of months get a woven wrap – a Didymos in Indio weave is good for little babes, and can be purchased at Lemon Balm Essentials or Birdie’s Room.
- There had been speculation that he had had a "weave" - a mini-wig made from real or synthetic hair, which is glued, taped or actually woven with silk thread on to the head.
- In making a cloth with plain weave, that is, with every thread interlacing with every other, as in darning, only two harnesses are required, but the modern loom may have up to about twenty-four harnesses so that an infinite variety of weaves may be obtained.
- They are then called upon to "weave the warp, and weave the woof," perhaps, with no great propriety; for it is by crossing the _woof_ with the _warp_ that men _weave_ the _web_ or piece; and the first line was dearly bought by the admission of its wretched correspondent, "give ample room and verge enough [198]."
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