weave¹ /wēv/

1. To make (cloth, tapestry, basketwork, etc) by crossing threads, strands, strips, etc above and below one another
2. To interlace (eg threads in a loom to form cloth)
3. To depict (figures, a story, etc) in woven work
4. To combine, mingle or work together into a whole
5. To introduce (an ingredient or element) subtly (into something)
6. To construct, fabricate or contrive

To practise weaving

1. The texture or structure of a woven fabric
2. A hairstyle in which artificial or human hair is interwoven with a person's own hair

weavˈer noun

1. Someone who weaves
2. Any bird of a passerine family (Ploceidae) resembling the finches, so called from their remarkable woven nests

weavˈing noun

The act or art of making cloth or a ‘web’ by the intersecting of two distinct sets of fibres, threads or yarns, those passing longitudinally from end to end of the web forming the warp, those crossing and intersecting the warp at right angles forming the weft

weaver bird noun

A weaver or, less commonly, a weaver finch

weaver finch noun

Any member of a family of small finch-like birds (Estrildidae) which includes the waxbills

weaver's knot or weaver's hitch noun

The sheet bend

weave² /wēv/

1. To move to and fro
2. To wind in and out
3. To move back or forward with sinuous movements of the body (boxing)
4. To fly a winding course (aeronautics)

1. To move to and fro or up and down
2. To make a signal to by waving something

weavˈing noun and adjective

get weaving (informal)

To get busy, get on the move

• misinstructing
• misinstruction
• misinstructions
• misinstructs
• misintelligence
• misintend
• misintended
• misintending
• misintends
• misinterpret
• misinterpretation
• misinterpreted
• misinterpreter
• misinterpreters
• misinterpreting
• misinterprets
• misjoin
• misjoinder
• misjoinders
• misjoined
• misjoining
• misjoins
• misjudge
• misjudged
• misjudgement