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{
"term": "weave",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "weave",
"heSheIt": "weaves"
},
"pastSimple": "wove",
"pastParticiple": "woven",
"ingForm": "weaving"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to make cloth, a carpet, a basket, etc. by crossing threads or narrow pieces of material across, over and under each other by hand or on a machine called a loom",
"sensetop": "weave A from Bweave B into Aweave something togetherweave (something)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The baskets are woven from strips of willow.",
"contextForm": "weave A from B"
},
{
"text": "The strips of willow are woven into baskets.",
"contextForm": "weave B into A"
},
{
"text": "threads woven together",
"contextForm": "weave something together"
},
{
"text": "Most spiders weave webs that are almost invisible.",
"contextForm": "weave (something)"
},
{
"text": "She is skilled at spinning and weaving."
},
{
"text": "The carpet was specially woven to commemorate the 1 000th anniversary of the cathedral's foundation."
},
{
"text": "The threads are woven together."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["carefully", "skilfully/skillfully", "seamlessly"],
"preposition": ["from", "into"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to make something by twisting flowers, pieces of wood, etc. together",
"sensetop": "weave A (out of/from B)weave B (into A)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She deftly wove the flowers into a garland."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to move along by running and changing direction continuously to avoid things that are in your way",
"sensetop": "+ adv./prep.weave your way + adv./prep.",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She was weaving in and out of the traffic.",
"contextForm": "+ adv./prep."
},
{
"text": "He hurried on, weaving through the crowd."
},
{
"text": "The road weaves through a range of hills."
},
{
"text": "He had to weave his way through the milling crowds.",
"contextForm": "weave your way + adv./prep."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to put facts, events, details, etc. together to make a story or a closely connected whole",
"sensetop": "weave (something into) somethingweave something together",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to weave a narrative",
"contextForm": "weave (something into) something"
},
{
"text": "The biography weaves together the various strands of Einstein's life.",
"contextForm": "weave something together"
},
{
"text": "Comedy and tragedy are inextricably woven into her fiction."
},
{
"text": "Hall skilfully weaves the historical research into a gripping narrative."
},
{
"text": "The author seamlessly weaves together the stories of three people's lives."
},
{
"text": "The whisky is inextricably woven into Scotland's history, customs and culture."
},
{
"text": "The author weaves the narrative around the detailed eyewitness accounts."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["carefully", "skilfully/skillfully", "seamlessly"],
"preposition": ["from", "into"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to perform or behave in a way that is attractive or interesting, or that makes somebody behave in a particular way",
"labels": "(especially British English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Will Hegerberg be able to weave her magic against Italy on Wednesday?"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/wiːv/",
"audio": "we/weave/weave__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/wiːvd/",
"audio": "we/weave/weaved__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/wiːvz/",
"audio": "we/weave/weaves__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/wəʊv/",
"audio": "wo/weave/wove__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈwəʊvn/",
"audio": "wo/weave/woven__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈwiːvɪŋ/",
"audio": "we/weave/weaving__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/wiːv/",
"audio": "we/weave/weave__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/wiːvd/",
"audio": "we/weave/weaved__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/wiːvz/",
"audio": "we/weave/weaves__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/wəʊv/",
"audio": "wo/weave/wove__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈwəʊvn/",
"audio": "wo/weave/woven__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈwiːvɪŋ/",
"audio": "we/weave/weaving__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "verb senses 1, 2 and 4 Old English wefan, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek huphē ‘web’ and Sanskrit ūrṇavābhi ‘spider’, literally ‘wool-weaver’. The current noun sense dates from the late 19th cent. verb sense 3 late 16th cent.: probably from Old Norse veifa ‘to wave, brandish’."
}