weave

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

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

   This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.

2. 2
   verb

   To spin a cocoon or a web.

   Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.

3. 3
   verb

   To unite by close connection or intermixture.

   This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.

4. 4
   verb

   To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.

   to weave the plot of a story

5. 5
   noun

   A type or way of weaving.

   That rug has a very tight weave.

6. 6
   noun

   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.

7. 7
   verb

   To move by turning and twisting.

   The drunk weaved into another bar.

8. 8
   verb

   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.

Etymology

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…