weave

CEFRB1

/wiːv/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To make cloth by crossing threads over and under each other.

  2. 02

    verb

    To move from side to side while traveling.

Examples

  • Spiders always weave their webs in three dimensions.

  • My grandmother likes to weave things.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To spin a cocoon or a web.

  2. To unite by close connection or intermixture.

  3. To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.

More examples

In context

  • to weave the plot of a story

  • Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.

  • This loom weaves yarn into cloth.

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

Using a loom, the artisan will blank the cotton threads into a beautiful fabric.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

verb

From Middle English weven (“to weave”), from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave, braid”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian weev, weew, weewe (“to weave”), Saterland Frisian weeuwe (“to weave”), Dutch weven (“to weave”), German weben (“to weave”), Luxembourgish wiewen (“to weave”), Yiddish וועבן (vebn, “to weave”), Danish væve (“to weave”), Faroese veva (“to weave”), Icelandic vefa (“to weave”), Norwegian Bokmål veve (“to weave”), Norwegian Nynorsk veva, veve (“to weave”), Swedish väva (“to weave”).