WOVEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woven mean? 

• WOVEN (adjective)
  The adjective WOVEN has 1 sense:

1. made or constructed by interlacing threads or strips of material or other elements into a whole

  Familiarity information: WOVEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOVEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made or constructed by interlacing threads or strips of material or other elements into a whole

Context example:

folk songs woven into a symphony

Similar:

braided (woven by (or as if by) braiding)

plain-woven ((of cloth) made in plain weave)

Antonym:

unwoven (not woven)

 Context examples 

I did so, and saw a large “E” with a small “g,” a “P,” and a large “G” with a small “t” woven into the texture of the paper.

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

Such a dream at the present time would become woven into their fears for me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I had my chance, and, starting from that point, I have woven my net round him until now it is all ready to close.

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

It was the trap, ever the trap, the fear of it lurking deep in the life of him, woven into the fibre of him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The scientists formed 3-D woven textile scaffolds from a biomaterial.

(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)

A solid composed active and/or inert ingredient(s) in a woven absorbent material.

(Cloth Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

A long slender flexible material usually consisting of several strands woven or twisted together; a part of the body resembling a cord.

(Cord, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign fibrous neoplasm characterized by a mineralized component (woven bone, lamellar bone, or cementum-like material).

(Ossifying Fibroma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The glandular architecture consists of small, round acini amid loosely woven, randomly oriented stroma.

(Peripheral Zone of the Prostatic Parenchyma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of fibrous tissue and a mineralized component which may be woven bone, lamellar bone, or cementum-like material.

(Ossifying Fibroma, NCI Thesaurus)