woof
IPA: wˈuf
noun
- (weaving)
- The set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp; the weft.
- (by extension) A woven fabric; also, the texture of a fabric.
- (by extension, loosely, chiefly poetic) The thread or yarn used to form the weft of woven fabric; the fill, the weft.
- (obsolete, rare) Synonym of weaving (“the process of making woven material on a loom”)
- (figurative)
- Something which is interwoven with another thing.
- An underlying foundation or structure of something; a fabric.
- The sound a dog makes when barking; a bark.
- (by extension) A sound resembling a dog's bark; specifically (sound engineering), a low-frequency sound of bad quality produced by a loudspeaker.
- (agriculture) Acronym of work on an organic farm.
- (marketing) Initialism of well-off older folks.
- Alternative form of WWOOF; a network organization that helps wwoofers connect up with organic farms that are offering work opportunities.
verb
- (weaving) To place (yarns) crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp in a loom.
- (figurative) To interweave (something) with another thing; to weave (several things) together.
- (transitive)
- (African-American Vernacular, figurative) To say (something) in an aggressive or boastful manner.
- (originally Britain, Royal Air Force slang, informal) To eat (food) voraciously; to devour, to gobble, to wolf.
- (intransitive)
- Of a dog: to bark.
- Of a person or thing: to make a sound resembling a dog's bark.
- (African-American Vernacular, figurative) To speak in an aggressive or boastful manner.
- (intransitive, agriculture) Alternative form of wwoof [To work on an organic farm in exchange for room, board, and education in organic farming.]
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Examples of "woof" in Sentences
- Woofer requires each "woof" to include a minimum of 1,400 characters, whereas Twitter limits each tweet to just 140.
- The woof is the thread that in weaving is carried by the shuttle through the threads of the "warp" -- here it means the "filling."
- McCain was diplomatic on his views of same sex marriages ....... at least he didn't "woof" some political explanation to advance his candidacy.
- STRANGER: Again, if a person were to say that the art of making the warp and the woof was the art of weaving, he would say what was paradoxical and false.
- Dear Readers: My mini schnauzer, Cabbie, greets my secretaries each day with a cheerful "woof" (or several) because she knows they will give her a treat (or several)!
- The thread for the filling (called the woof by the negroes) was reeled from the hank on the winding-blades, upon small canes about four inches long which, when full, were placed in the wooden shuttles.
- And the music still kept spinning and spinning, and finally wove in the color and fragrance and light with its subtile self; and the background of the woof was the hum and murmur of voices, and the continual rustling of feet.
- 'are 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."
- STRANGER: And the threads which are more loosely spun, having a softness proportioned to the intertexture of the warp and to the degree of force used in dressing the cloth, — the threads which are thus spun are called the woof, and the art which is set over them may be called the art of spinning the woof.
- 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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