English

Verb

weave ‎(third-person singular simple present weaves, present participle weaving, simple past wove or weaved, past participle woven or weaved)

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

   This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.

2. To spin a cocoon or a web.

   Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.

3. To unite by close connection or intermixture.
   • Shakespeare

     This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.

   • Byron

     these words, thus woven into song

4. To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.

   to weave the plot of a story

Related terms

• web

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Noun

weave ‎(plural weaves)

1. A type or way of weaving.

   That rug has a very tight weave.

2. Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.

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Etymology 2

Probably from Old Norse veifa ‘move around, wave’, related to Latin vibrare.

Verb

weave ‎(third-person singular simple present weaves, present participle weaving, simple past and past participle weaved)

1. (intransitive) To move by turning and twisting.

   The drunk weaved into another bar.

   • 2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC:

     Tevez picked up a throw-in from the right, tip-toed his way into the area and weaved past three Wolves challenges before slotting in to display why, of all City's multi-million pound buys, he remains their most important player.

2. (transitive) To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.

   The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.

   • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     Weave a circle round him thrice.

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References

• weave in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• weave in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913