| 单词 | weave |
| 释义 | weave (wiːv ) Word forms: weaves , weaving , wove , woven language note: The form weaved is used for the past tense and past participle for meaning [sense 4]. 1. verb If you weave cloth or a carpet, you make it by crossing threads over and under each other using a frame or machine called a loom. They would spin and weave cloth, cook and attend to the domestic side of life. [VERB noun] In one room, young mothers weave while babies doze in their laps. [VERB] woven adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] ...woven cotton fabrics. weaving uncountable noun When I studied weaving, I became intrigued with natural dyes. 2. countable noun A particular weave is the way in which the threads are arranged in a cloth or carpet. Fabrics with a close weave are ideal for painting. 3. verb If you weave something such as a basket, you make it by crossing long plant stems or fibres over and under each other. Jenny weaves baskets from willow she grows herself. [VERB noun] woven adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] The floors are covered with woven straw mats. 4. verb If you weave your way somewhere, you move between and around things as you go there. The cars then weaved in and out of traffic at top speed. [VERB preposition] He weaved around the tables to where she sat with Bob. [VERB preposition] He weaves his way through a crowd. [V n + through] Synonyms: zigzag, wind, move in and out, crisscross 5. verb If you weave a story, you invent a complicated story. [written] Jan Roberts weaves a compelling tale which traps a young woman in a world run by the Mafia. [VERB noun] Synonyms: create, tell, recount, narrate 6. verb If you weave details into a story or design, you include them, so that they are closely linked together or become an important part of the story or design. [written] She weaves imaginative elements into her poems. [VERB noun + into] Bragg weaves together the histories of his main characters. [VERB noun with together] Synonyms: incorporate, work, include, mix 7. countable noun A weave is a piece of hair that is added to a person's own hair to make it look longer or thicker. She had dark brown or black wavy hair and may have been wearing a hair weave. Collocations: weave a web He was forced to weave a web of secrecy. Times, Sunday Times Try to look at spiders and notice a new detail you have never seen before - such as the colour of their hairs or how they weave a web. The Sun They stop at nothing, as they weave a web of cunning and deception, in order to trap their targets and bring them to justice. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He can also weave the web material into simple forms like a shield, a spherical protection or hemispherical barrier, a club, or a hang-glider wing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He wove a web of secrecy. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 迂回行进 Japanese: 織る |
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