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woven
To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
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verb
To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
“This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.”
To spin a cocoon or a web.
“Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.”
To unite by close connection or intermixture.
To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
“to weave the plot of a story”
noun
A cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic.
adjective
Fabricated by weaving.
“Woven kevlar is tough enough to be bulletproof.”
Interlaced
“The woven words of the sonnet were deep and moving.”
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This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.
Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
to weave the plot of a story
Woven kevlar is tough enough to be bulletproof.
The woven words of the sonnet were deep and moving.