Word Finder - woven

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

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This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.

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To spin a cocoon or a web.

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Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.

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To unite by close connection or intermixture.

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To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.

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to weave the plot of a story

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A cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic.

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Fabricated by weaving.

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Woven kevlar is tough enough to be bulletproof.

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Interlaced

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The woven words of the sonnet were deep and moving.

Cotton is produced, and is woven into fabrics by the women.

I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I had not made it worth any one's while to buy them.

Xander barely resisted the urge to touch the finely woven garment with a fur lining that was certain to be the softest thing in the world.

Some beautiful furniture is made out of the hardwood from the mountains, and cotton fabrics are woven in considerable quantities by the women.

His draperies are tight and closely folded, being studied (as it is said) from models draped in paper and woven fabrics gummed.

Handlooms and small spinTextiles ning establishments have, in the silk industry, given place to large establishments with steam looms. The production of raw silk at least tripled itself between 1875 and 1900, and the value of the silks woven in Italy, estimated in 1890 to be 2,200,000, is now, on account of the development of the export trade calculated to be almost 4,000,000.

Each cistern is fitted kith a perforated false bottom, on which a blanket or specially woven cloth is placed, to receive the char which is poured in from the top, and packed as evenly as possible until the cistern is filled.

Cacao, tobacco, cotton, rice and indigo are grown in the neighbouring country, and the town has a considerable trade in these and other commodities; it also manufactures sugar, fans and woven fabrics.

Of course by far the larger part of the yarn spun in Lancashire is woven in Lancashire, but of the cotton cloth woven in Lancashire it is roughly estimated that about 20% is used in Great Britain.

Cotton fabrics are woven by the women and sold to the mountain tribes.

But into the figure of Arthur as we know him, other elements have entered; he is not merely an historic personality, but at the same time a survival of pre-historic myth, a hero of romance, and a fairy king; and all these threads are woven together in one fascinating but bewildering web.

A few years later (about 600) the two Pentateuchal documents J and E were woven together, the books of Kings were compiled, the book of Habakkuk and parts of the Proverbs were written.

So extensible is viscous glass that it can be drawn out into a filament sufficiently fine and elastic to be woven into a fabric.

The genuineness of these so-called translations from the works of a 3rd-century bard was immediately challenged in England, and Dr Johnson, after some local investigation, asserted (Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, 1775) that Macpherson had only found fragments of ancient poems and stories, which he had woven into a romance of his own composition.

Its whereabouts is thus, to a great extent, concealed both from enemies searching for spiders and from insects suitable for food; and its open meshwork of strong threads makes it much less liable to be beaten down by rain or torn to shreds by winds than if it were a flat sheet of closely woven silk.

The narratives of miracles are woven into the very texture of this representation.

The long hair is shorn every summer, and woven into a variety of stuffs used by the Arab for clothing himself and his family, and covering his tent.

By invagination one portion of this sphere becomes tucked into the other - as in the preparation of a woven night-cap for the head.

Imports include woven goods, metals, ironware, machinery, tea, wines and spirits, mineral oils, opium, paper, and arms and powder.

The most important imports are minerals, including coal and metals (both in pig and wrought); silks, raw, spun and woven; stone, potters earths, earthenware and glass; corn, flour and farinaceous products; cotton, raw, spun and woven; and live stock.

A considerable quantity of the produce is spun and woven locally; e.g.

West Africa.-Cotton has long been grown in the various countries on the west coast of Africa, ginned by hand or by very primitive means, spun into yarn, and woven on simple looms into " country cloths "; these are often only a few inches wide, so that any large cloths have to be made by sewing the narrow strips together.

The two layers thus " woven " - Pliny uses the word texere in describing this part of the process - formed a sheet (plagula or net), which was then soaked in water of the Nile.

Tobacco and cascarilla bark also flourish; and cotton is indigenous and was woven into cloth by the aborigines.

The custom of offering a beautifully woven peplus at the Panathenaic festival is connected with her character as Ergane the goddess of industry.'

They consist of tanks or cisterns fitted with " heads " from which a number of bags of specially woven cloth are suspended in a suitable manner, and into which the melted sugar or liquor to be filtered flows from the melting pans.

In order to form a relative idea of the importance of the various countries engaged in silk manufacture, a tabulation of the number of looms employed in each country would prove an inadequate guide, owing to the variations from time to time of the fabrics woven, as also to the difficulty in obtaining trustworthy statistics of the number in active operation.

Yarns are sold according to their "actual" counts, though when they are woven into cloth they frequently attain nominal or brevet rank.

The wool is not of much value, and is spun by the women and woven into rugs, and made up into saddlebags or into the black Bedouin tents.

The cloth is woven "one end up and two ends down," and as there are more picks of weft per inch than ends of warp the diagonal lines pass from selvage to selvage at an angle of less than 45 degrees.

The amount of silk handled and woven in Milan is greater than that dealt with at Lyons.

A limited amount of cotton is raised and woven into cloth.

Aristotle's vague knowledge of the worm may have been derived from information acquired by the Greeks with Alexander the Great; but long before this time raw silk must have begun to be imported at Cos, where it was woven into a gauzy tissue, the famous Coa vestis, which revealed rather than clothed the form.

Cloth is woven at Parachin, 5 m.

But every night she undid the piece which she had woven by day.

Manufactured in a loop design, Berber is an excellent choice for those who have pets, especially cats, as the pile is very tightly woven and resistant to unraveling.

The Berber tribe constructed their fabrics, usually made out of camel hair or wool, with tightly woven loops.

Greek and Roman peasants were recorded as wearing woven hats to work the fields.

Silver is more malleable than other precious metals, meaning it can more easily be shaped and woven into intricate knot patterns.

Filigree designs may be woven, etched, or carved, and each type of design adds great texture and depth to the overall pattern.

Symmetrical knots, braids, and other woven patterns adorn Celtic rings, and many couples choose Celtic designs because of their symbolism.

The stony plains which cover so large a part of the country are often covered with acacia jungle, and in the dry water-courses a kind of wild palm, the dom, abounds, from the leaves of which baskets and mats are woven.

Vitruvius also gives a detailed account of the means of recovering gold, by amalgamation, from cloth into which it had been woven.

Linen, flax, jute and wool are also spun and woven.

Axminster was long celebrated for the admirable quality of its carpets, which were woven by hand, like tapestry.

Their use was not simply a barbarous expedient to defend man from the rigours of an arctic winter; woven wool alone cannot, in its most perfect form, accomplish this.

The European, Arabian and East Indian kinds are seldom used for rugs, the skins are chiefly dressed as leather for books and furniture, and the kids for boots and gloves, and the finer wool and hair are woven into various materials.

Paisley has been an important manufacturing centre since the beginning of the 18th century, but the earlier linen, lawn and silk-gauze industries have become extinct, and even the famous Paisley shawls (imitation cashmere), the sale of which at one time exceeded i,000,000 yearly in value, have ceased to be woven.

The surrounding country is one of the most important hemp-producing districts in the Philippines; sinamay is woven here, and large quantities of hemp are shipped from here to Manila.

Phormium is a cream-coloured fibre with a fine silky gloss, capable of being spun and woven into many of the heavier textures for which flax is used, either alone or in combination with flax.