Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: weave
IPA transcription: [w'iv]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: weave
    Meaning: pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: weave, interweave
    Meaning: interlace by or as if by weaving
  • Synonyms: weave, tissue
    Meaning: create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton; "tissue textiles"
  • Synonyms: waver, weave
    Meaning: sway to and fro
Usage examples
  • How the solemn splendors of the half notes weave an atmosphere of mystic tragedy!
  • But remember that men erect no monuments and weave no laurels for those who fear to do what they can.
  • Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a plan.
  • You must learn to weave baskets.' Then he went out and cut willows, and brought them home, and she began to weave; but it made her fingers very sore.
  • All of them pass through the wire gauze and form a group on the summit of the brushwood, where they swiftly weave a spacious lounge of criss-cross threads.
  • Her mother came to visit her whenever she was able, and one day, when they were sitting talking together, they were spied out by a man who had come to cut willows to weave into baskets.
  • And he permits these things, and continues to permit them, for he cannot help them, and he is a slave. Out of his ideas he may weave cunning theories, beautiful ideals; but he is working with ropes of sand.
  • Break them to pieces with your hands and feet, and they will become flax, from which you must spin and weave eleven coats with long sleeves; if these are then thrown over the eleven swans the spell will be broken.
  • When spring comes, the youngsters will emerge from their snug habitation, disperse all over the neighbourhood by the expedient of the floating thread and weave their first attempts at a labyrinth on the tufts of thyme.
  • It drips in cadenced monotone and its song is repeated on the lips of the slender-hipped girl with the eyes of midnight--and so might I weave for you a story of what I see in the Ballade and you would be aghast or puzzled.