请输入您要查询的单词：

　

单词 weave
释义

weave

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wēv, IPA(key): /wiːv/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːv
  • Homophone: we've

Etymology 1

From Middle English weven (“to weave”), from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave, braid”).

Cognates:
Cognate with Saterland Frisian weeuwe, West Frisian weve, Dutch weven, German weben, Danish væve, Swedish väva, Norwegian Nynorsk veva, Icelandic vefa.

Verb

weave (third-person singular simple present weaves, present participle weaving, simple past wove or weaved, past participle woven or weaved or (now colloquial and nonstandard) wove)

  1. To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
    This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.
  2. To spin a cocoon or a web.
    Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
  3. To unite by close connection or intermixture.
    • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
      This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.
    • 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], OCLC 1015450009, stanza CII:
      these words, thus woven into song
  4. To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
    to weave the plot of a story
  • web
  • sew
Translations
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked

Noun

weave (plural weaves)

  1. A type or way of weaving.
    That rug has a very tight weave.
  2. (cosmetics) Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.
    • 2021, Becky S. Li, ‎Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations (page 154)
      The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English weven (“to wander”); probably from Old Norse veifa (“move around, wave”), related to Latin vibrare.

Verb

weave (third-person singular simple present weaves, present participle weaving, simple past and past participle weaved)

  1. (intransitive) To move by turning and twisting.
    The drunk weaved into another bar.
    • 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer‎:
      The victims’ feeling of incredulity at what they were seeing, swiftly turning to paralysing fear as the van bore down on them, swerving and weaving to hit as many people as possible, can barely be imagined.
    • 2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC‎:
      Tevez picked up a throw-in from the right, tip-toed his way into the area and weaved past three Wolves challenges before slotting in to display why, of all City's multi-million pound buys, he remains their most important player.
  2. (transitive) To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
    The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.
    • 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, OCLC 1380031, page 58:
      Weave a circle round him thrice,
      And close your eyes with holy dread:
      For he on honey-dew hath fed,
      And drank the milk of Paradise.
  3. (intransitive, of an animal) To move the head back and forth in a stereotyped pattern, typically as a symptom of stress.
Translations

References

  • weave in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • weave in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
随便看

　

国际大辞典收录了7408809条英语、德语、日语等多语种在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的翻译及用法，是外语学习的有利工具。

　

Copyright © 2004-2023 idict.net All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间：2024/11/5 21:46:17