woven
part of speech
verb form (past participle of weave); adjective (woven)
meaning for a pupil
1) Made by weaving: crossing threads, strips or stems over and under each other. tree →
2) (of a story or ideas) Joined together closely: a story woven from many tales. tree →
sense in the lessons
In design and technology and history: woven cloth, woven baskets, woven mats. In stories: a spider has woven a web; ideas are woven together. Tells the reader how something was made.
examples
- The basket was woven from willow. tree →
- The spider had woven a huge web overnight. tree →
- We made a woven mat from strips of paper in art. tree →
- This scarf is woven from wool. tree →
- Many old tales are woven into the book. tree →
- A woven pattern goes over, under, over, under. tree →
- He wore a loin cloth of woven sweet grass. tree →
note
Weave, weaves, wove, woven (irregular). «Has woven», not «has weaved», for cloth; «weaved» is used for moving in and out («the bike weaved through traffic»).
In the corpora
- 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,
- and thou didst take thy richly woven garments and cover them, and didst set Mine oil and Mine incense before them.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «woven» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.