weave

«weave» in Mova's school dictionary: to make cloth, a basket or a mat by crossing threads… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (weave, weaves, wove, woven, weaving; also weaved for moving); noun (a weave, weaves)

meaning for a pupil

1) To weave is to make cloth, a basket or a mat by crossing threads, strips or twigs over and under each other. tree →

2) To weave can mean to move in and out between things, changing direction (past: weaved). tree →

3) To weave a story is to make it up, especially by joining many parts. tree →

4) A weave is the pattern or way that something is woven; a weave is also a style of hair extension. tree →

sense in the lessons

In design and history lessons weaving on a loom makes fabric; threads going one way are the warp, those going across are the weft. In art lessons children weave paper strips. In PE and safety, cyclists should not weave between cars. Spiders weave webs. Phrases: weave a basket, weave through the traffic, weave a tale, a tight weave.

examples

• We wove a mat from strips of coloured paper. tree →
• Grandma weaves rugs on her big wooden loom. tree →
• The spider wove a beautiful web. tree →
• The footballer weaved between the defenders and scored. tree →
• The cyclist weaved dangerously through the traffic. tree →
• The storyteller wove a tale of dragons and kings. tree →
• This fabric has a tight weave, so it keeps out the wind. tree →
• 'Weave me a net that I may catch some salmon,' said he. tree →

note

Past forms: wove and woven for making cloth (She wove a basket; it was woven by hand); weaved for moving (He weaved through the crowd). Do not confuse with «wave» (move your hand).

In the corpora

• Spinning and weaving machines in big cotton mills made cloth much faster and cheaper, so ordinary people could afford more clothes.
• Jeans are woven with blue threads one way and white threads the other, which is why the inside is paler than the outside.
• Birds build many kinds of nests: cups of twigs, woven baskets, mud nests and holes in trees.
• And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue;
• And they made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «weave» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.