Weave vs Reave - What's the difference?
weave | reave |
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) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
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(archaic) To split, tear, break apart.
As verbs the difference between weave and reave
is that weave is to form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another while reave is to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.As a noun weave
is a type or way of weaving.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 verbsreave
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) reven, from (etyl) 'to roughen', Sanskrit (term) 'to make suffer'). See (m) and (m).Alternative forms
* reiveVerb
- And I for one am not convinced of the innocence of the model: it is as if we let a criminal make up the law as he or she ambles along, reaving right and left.