weave

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 wēv

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.
动词 v.
  1. To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. transitive
    — This loom weaves yarn into cloth.
  2. To move by turning and twisting. intransitive
    — The drunk weaved into another bar.
  3. To spin a cocoon or a web. transitive
    — Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
  4. To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side. transitive
    — The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.
  5. To unite by close connection or intermixture. transitive
    — This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.
  6. To move the head back and forth in a stereotyped pattern, typically as a symptom of stress. intransitive
  7. To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate. transitive
    — to weave the plot of a story

词形变化

weaves present,singular,third-person weaving participle,present wove past weaved past woven participle,past weaved participle,past wove colloquial,nonstandard,participle,past weaves plural weaves present,singular,third-person weaving participle,present weaved participle,past weaved past

词汇关系

衍生词
basketweave even-weave mana weave Panama weave plain weave satin weave Thach weave what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
相关词
web sew

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
From Middle English weven (“to wander”); probably from Old Norse veifa (“move around, wave”), related to Latin vibrare.
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