weaving

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiːvɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -iːvɪŋ

Noun

weaving (countable and uncountable, plural weavings)

1. (uncountable) The process of making woven material on a loom.
2. (countable) A piece of such material.
   • 2007 September 28, Holland Cotter, “Lenore Tawney, an Innovator in Weaving, Dies at 100”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In the 1960s, in addition to small-scale weavings influenced by American Indian, Peruvian and African art, she began producing enigmatic assemblage boxes and collages, including postcard collages, which she sent to friends.

3. (countable) An unsteady back and forth motion.
   • 1980, David Madsen, Black Plume:

     Through some ill-understood quirk of balance, his drunken weavings did nothing to upset the tray — it seemed to remain calmly horizontal.

Derived terms

• basketweaving
• Chilkat weaving
• figure weaving
• lentil-weaving
• underwater basket weaving

 

Translations

process of making woven material

• Catalan: tissatge m, teixidura f
• Chinese:

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• Czech: tkaní n
• Danish: vævning c
• Dutch: weven (nl) n
• Esperanto: teksado
• Finnish: kutominen (fi)
• French: tissage (fr) m
• Friulian: tiessidure f
• Greek: ύφανση (el) f (ýfansi)
• Gujarati: વણાટકામ (vaṇāṭkām)
• Indonesian: menganyam (id)
• Irish: fí f
• Italian: tessitura (it) f
• Japanese: 織り (ja) (ori)
• Malayalam: നെയ്ത്ത് (ml) (neyttŭ)
• Middle English: wevynge
• Navajo: atłʼóóh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: veving m or f

  Nynorsk: veving f

• Polish: tkactwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: tecelagem (pt) f
• Spanish: tejido (es) m
• Swahili: ufumaji

piece of such material

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: kudonnainen
• German: Webstück n
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

unsteady back and forth motion

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: horjahtelu (fi)
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Verb

weaving

1. present participle and gerund of weave

   The motorcycle is weaving in and out of traffic