weaving

«weaving» in Mova's school dictionary: making cloth by crossing threads over and under each… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (weaving; uncountable; a weaving — a woven piece); verb form (-ing form of weave: weave, weaves, wove/weaved, woven/weaved, weaving)

meaning for a pupil

1) Weaving is making cloth by crossing threads over and under each other on a loom. tree →

2) A weaving is a piece of cloth or art made this way. tree →

3) Weaving means moving in and out between things, like a car or runner going around others. tree →

4) Weaving can also mean making a magic spell. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in art and history lessons (looms, the Industrial Revolution, Aboriginal and Māori weaving with flax), in science (birds weaving nests), and in action descriptions (weaving through traffic).

examples

• We did paper weaving in art class. tree →
• Weaving was done by hand before the factories came. tree →
• Māori weaving uses flax from New Zealand. tree →
• The weaver bird is weaving a nest of grass. tree →
• The cyclist was weaving through the traffic. tree →
• She hung her weaving on the classroom wall. tree →
• The footballer went weaving past three defenders. tree →
• But it was enchantment they were weaving. tree →

note

For cloth the past is «wove», «woven»; for moving in and out it is usually «weaved»: «He weaved through the crowd». Do not confuse with «waving» (moving 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.

Trees and pragmatics

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