WEAVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weaving mean? 

• WEAVING (noun)
  The noun WEAVING has 1 sense:

1. creating fabric

  Familiarity information: WEAVING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEAVING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Creating fabric

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("weaving" is a kind of...):

handicraft (a craft that requires skillful hands)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weaving"):

netting (creating nets)

Derivation:

weave (create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton)

 Context examples 

Images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot reveal a tangle of dark, veinous clouds weaving their way through a massive crimson oval.

(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

I could not myself see the bearing of this incident, but I clearly perceived that Holmes was weaving it into the general scheme which he had formed in his brain.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Material formed by weaving, knitting, felting, or pressing fibers together.

(Cloth, NCI Thesaurus)

Your partner may feel you’ve neglected your relationship to concentrate on your career, and now you can grow close again by having fun together, weaving a lasting memory of love.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It would not rest him to lie down, and he could not close his eyes; so he remained all night staring at a little spider which was weaving its web in a corner of the room, just as if it were not one of the most wonderful rooms in the world.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Back and forth across the desolation drifted their howls, weaving the very air into a fabric of menace that was so tangible that he found himself, arms in the air, pressing it back from him as it might be the walls of a wind-blown tent.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It seemed a glow to him, a warm and trailing vapor, ever beyond his reaching, though sometimes he was rewarded by catching at shreds of it and weaving them into phrases that echoed in his brain with haunting notes or drifted across his vision in misty wafture of unseen beauty.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)