WOOF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woof mean? 

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

1. the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOOF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

filling; pick; weft; woof

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

thread; yarn (a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving)

Holonyms ("woof" is a part of...):

weave (pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric)

Holonyms ("woof" is a substance of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

 Context examples 

And you, in turn,—or so it seems to me,—leave out the biological factor, the very stuff out of which has been spun the fabric of all the arts, the warp and the woof of all human actions and achievements.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To accomplish the change was like a reflux of being, and this when the plasticity of youth was no longer his; when the fibre of him had become tough and knotty; when the warp and the woof of him had made of him an adamantine texture, harsh and unyielding; when the face of his spirit had become iron and all his instincts and axioms had crystallised into set rules, cautions, dislikes, and desires.

(White Fang, by Jack London)