Weave vs Fabric - What's the difference?
weave | fabric |
To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
To spin a cocoon or a web.
To unite by close connection or intermixture.
* Shakespeare
* Byron
To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
A type or way of weaving.
Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.
To move by turning and twisting.
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To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(archaic) structure, building
* Milton
(archaic) The act of constructing; construction; fabrication.
* Milman
(archaic) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make.
The framework underlying a structure
A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
(petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock
(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance
As nouns the difference between weave and fabric
is that weave is a type or way of weaving while fabric is (archaic) structure, building.As a verb weave
is to form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another or weave can be to move by turning and twisting.weave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , Swedish '' .Verb
- This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.
- Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
- This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.
- these words, thus woven into song
- to weave the plot of a story
Noun
(en noun)- That rug has a very tight weave .
Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) veifa'' ‘move around, wave’, related to Latin ''vibrare .Verb
(weav)- The drunk weaved into another bar.
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- The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.
- Weave a circle round him thrice.
References
* * English irregular verbsfabric
English
Alternative forms
* fabrick (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia fabric)- Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.
- Tithe was received by the bishop for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
- cloth of a beautiful fabric
- the fabric of our lives
- the fabric of the universe
- cotton fabric
- The internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers