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单词 reweave
释义

reweavev.

Brit. /ˌriːˈwiːv/, U.S. /riˈwiv/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, weave v.1
Etymology: < re- prefix + weave v.1 Compare earlier unweave v.In quot. 1717 apparently a misinterpretation of classical Latin retexere to undo, unravel (see retex v.).
1. transitive. To weave again or a further time. Occasionally intransitive. (In quots. chiefly figurative and in figurative contexts.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > weave > weave in specific ways
pirn1494
attex1654
interlace1694
damask1706
reweave1717
outweave1805
tweddle1808
twill1808
overweave1818
shot1847
1717 W. Congreve in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Metamorphoses x. 333 Let me again Eurydice receive, Let Fate her quick-spun Thread of Life re-weave [L. retexite].
1794 I. Kelly Madeline II. xxii. 148 I fear you have given me my whole web of contrivance to reweave.
1860 Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. i. §19. 1 ‘So!’ he thought, ‘they meet thus: and reweave the old charm!’
1882 C. F. Woolson Anne 349 [It] will rend this filmy fabric of imagination immediately, never to be rewoven again.
1929 Oxf. Poetry 6 These worn and tangled threads of day reweave Like memory's or music's threads.
2006 J. Dibbell Play Money ix. 66 They seized hold of the fabric of time and space and re-wove the fibers of Sosaria, which today we call Britannia.
2. transitive (reflexive) in same sense.
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1877 J. Ruskin Laws Fésole (1879) I. vi. 71 It is a web which re-weaves itself when you tear it.
2005 C. Stross Accelerando vii. 290 Fabric reweaves itself instantly, mapping itself into an armored airtight suit.

Derivatives

reˈweaving n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > again
reweaving1831
retexture1834
1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. i. 5 The fact of the reweaving rests upon too good authority to be doubted.
1848 Rep. Supreme Courts Scotl. 20 520/2 The reweaving of such strips, with the whole fur or pile uppermost.
1911 J. E. Boodin Truth & Reality iv. xiv. 266 Knowledge becomes instrumental—a reweaving of a non-meaning context into the unity of our purposes.
1963 Economist 2 Feb. 392/2 It is this reweaving of America with Europe that General de Gaulle is now challenging.
1999 National Trust Mag. Spring 44/2 (advt.) Burn reweaving, retufting, leather renovation, dust-mite allergy treatment—leave it to us as so many thousands do each and every year.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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