Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made by weaving.
- noun Material or a fabric made by weaving.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Past participle of weave.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- p. p. of
weave . - writing paper having an even, uniform surface, without watermarks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Fabricated byweaving . - adjective
Interlaced - noun A
cloth formed byweaving . It only stretches in thebias directions (between thewarp andweft directions), unless the threads are elastic. - verb Past participle of
weave
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective made or constructed by interlacing threads or strips of material or other elements into a whole
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Examples
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Cochise was dressed in his war garments, according to some, painted for war, and wrapped in a blanket with his name woven into it, the gift of an army colonel.
Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994
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Cochise was dressed in his war garments, according to some, painted for war, and wrapped in a blanket with his name woven into it, the gift of an army colonel.
Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994
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I have no idea if this is shooped -- on the one hand, it is the kind of thing a loony dictator might revel in; on the other hand, why wouldn't he get his name woven in Arabic script?
Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2011
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One has a fabric of considered views that are woven from the threads of inherited traditions.
March 11th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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A broad panorama of the triumphs and follies of humanity, an exploration of the quirks of the mind, of the nobility but more often the meanness and sheer malevolence of human nature, the collection was knit together by a web of self-consistent thinking, a skein of ideas woven from a lifetime of close reasoning on life, art, and literature.
william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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A broad panorama of the triumphs and follies of humanity, an exploration of the quirks of the mind, of the nobility but more often the meanness and sheer malevolence of human nature, the collection was knit together by a web of self-consistent thinking, a skein of ideas woven from a lifetime of close reasoning on life, art, and literature.
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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The women make wide strips and bands of different designs and colors: purses, figures of stars and portraits, in woven wool.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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He is another George Bush, a fabric woven from the Karl Rove spin machine.
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The women make wide strips and bands of different designs and colors: purses, figures of stars and portraits, in woven wool.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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The Swedish Interactive Institute has also been developing products around this idea with their Design for Increased Energy Awareness collection, which includes the widely blogged Re: Form Energy Curtain, a drapery that stores and emits solar power in woven photovoltaic textiles.
matboo commented on the word woven
COOL WORD :)
January 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word woven
I agree, very cool.
January 26, 2012