weaving

weaving

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiːvɪŋ/

Noun

weaving (countable and uncountable, plural weavings)

1. (uncountable) The process of making woven material on a loom.
2. (countable) A piece of such material.
   • 2007 September 28, Holland Cotter, “Lenore Tawney, an Innovator in Weaving, Dies at 100”, in New York Times‎:

     In the 1960s, in addition to small-scale weavings influenced by American Indian, Peruvian and African art, she began producing enigmatic assemblage boxes and collages, including postcard collages, which she sent to friends.

3. (countable) An unsteady motion back and forth.
   • 1980, David Madsen, Black Plume

     Through some ill-understood quirk of balance, his drunken weavings did nothing to upset the tray — it seemed to remain calmly horizontal.

Translations

process of making woven material

Catalan: tissatge m, teixidura f Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: tkaní n Dutch: weven (nl) n Finnish: kutominen (fi) French: tissage (fr) m Friulian: tiessidure f Greek: ύφανση (el) f (ýfansi)

Gujarati: વણાટકામ (vaṇāṭkām) Indonesian: menganyam (id) Italian: tessitura (it) f Navajo: atłʼóóh Norwegian: Bokmål: veving m or f Nynorsk: veving f Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Spanish: tejido (es) m

piece of such material

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

Finnish: kudonnainen Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

unsteady motion back and forth

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

Finnish: horjahtelu (fi) Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

Verb

weaving

1. present participle of weave

   The motorcycle is weaving in and out of traffic

2. gerund of weave