weave

Meanings

1. To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
2. To spin a cocoon or a web.
3. To unite by close connection or intermixture.
4. To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.

1. A type or way of weaving.
2. Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.

1. To move by turning and twisting.
2. To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
3. To move the head back and forth in a stereotyped pattern, typically as a symptom of stress.

Etymology

From Middle English weven (“to weave”), from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave, braid”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian weev, weew, weewe (“to weave”), Saterland Frisian weeuwe (“to weave”), Dutch weven (“to weave”), German weben (“to weave”), Luxembourgish wiewen (“to weave”), Yiddish וועבן (vebn, “to weave”), Danish væve (“to weave”), Faroese veva (“to weave”), Icelandic vefa (“to weave”), Norwegian Bokmål veve (“to weave”), Norwegian Nynorsk veva, veve (“to weave”), Swedish väva (“to weave”).