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weave



weave [weave weaves wove weaving woven] verb, noun BrE [wiːv] NAmE [wiːv]
verb (woveBrE [wəʊv] ; NAmE [woʊv] wovenBrE [ˈwəʊvn] ; NAmE [ˈwoʊvn] ) In sense 4 weaved is used for the past tense and past participle.
1. transitive, intransitive to make cloth, a carpet, a ↑basket, etc. by crossing threads or strips across, over and under each other by hand or on a machine called a ↑loom
~ A from B The baskets are woven from strips of willow.
~ B into A The strips of willow are woven into baskets.
~ sth together threads woven together
~ (sth) Most spiders weave webs that are almost invisible.
She is skilled at spinning and weaving.
2. transitive ~ A (out of/from B) | ~ B (into A) to make sth by twisting flowers, pieces of wood, etc. together
She deftly wove the flowers into a garland.
3. transitive to put facts, events, details, etc. together to make a story or a closely connected whole
~ (sth into) sth to weave a narrative
~ sth together The biography weaves together the various strands of Einstein's life.
4. (weaved, weaved)intransitive, transitive to move along by running and changing direction continuously to avoid things that are in your way
+ adv./prep. She was weaving in and out of the traffic.
He hurried on, weaving through the crowd.
The road weaves through a range of hills.
~ your way + adv./prep. He had to weave his way through the milling crowds.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
v. senses 1 to 3 and n. Old English wefan Germanic Indo-European Greek huphē ‘web’ Sanskrit ūrṇavābhi ‘spider’ ‘wool-weaver’ v. sense 4 late 16th cent. Old Norse veifa ‘to wave, brandish’

Example Bank:
Comedy and tragedy are inextricably woven into her fiction.
Hall skilfully weaves the historical research into a gripping narrative.
The author seamlessly weaves together the stories of three people's lives.
The carpet was specially woven to commemorate the 1 000th anniversary of the cathedral's foundation.
The threads are woven together.
The whisky is inextricably woven into Scotland's history, customs and culture.
a basket woven from strips of willow
The author weaves the narrative around the detailed eyewitness accounts.
The biography weaves together the various strands of Einstein's life.
Idioms:weave a spell weave your magic
 
noun
the way in which threads are arranged in a piece of cloth that has been ↑woven; the pattern that the threads make
a close/fine/rough weave

Word Origin:
v. senses 1 to 3 and n. Old English wefan Germanic Indo-European Greek huphē ‘web’ Sanskrit ūrṇavābhi ‘spider’ ‘wool-weaver’ v. sense 4 late 16th cent. Old Norse veifa ‘to wave, brandish’
 

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