Weaving vs Heaving - What's the difference?
weaving | heaving |
(uncountable) The process of making woven material on a loom.
(countable) A piece of such material.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 28, author=Holland Cotter, title=Lenore Tawney, an Innovator in Weaving, Dies at 100, work=New York Times
, passage=In the 1960s, in addition to small-scale weavings influenced by American Indian, Peruvian and African art, she began producing enigmatic assemblage boxes and collages, including postcard collages, which she sent to friends.}}
(countable) An unsteady motion back and forth.
* 1980 , David Madsen, Black Plume
(informal) crowded with people
* 2006, Tim Downie, "Ride Report: Bealach-na-Ba", uk.rec.cycling [http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.cycling/browse_thread/thread/af08b5a62b82262c/192dcd8f8dca7b8e?lnk=st&q=%22was+heaving%22&rnum=7#192dcd8f8dca7b8e]
* 2006, "Krusty", "Krusty's Holiday", uk.rec.motorcycles, [http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/browse_thread/thread/f3c43a458f94a29b/bdff0eb3decbb853?lnk=st&q=%22was+heaving%22&rnum=99#]
* 2007, "Jamie", "Hyde Park Calling 2007", "classic rock magazine readers", [http://groups.google.com/group/classic-rock-mag-readers/browse_thread/thread/7a5dc153e8401fb9/e32feaabd9dc9423?lnk=st&q=%22was+heaving%22&rnum=8#]
An occasion on which something heaves or is heaved
* {{quote-book, year=1884, author=Edgar Allan Poe, title=The Raven, chapter=, edition=
, passage=No swellings tell that winds may be Upon some far-off happier sea-- No heavings hint that winds have been On seas less hideously serene." }}
* {{quote-book, year=1893, author=Thomas De Quincey, title=The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols), chapter=, edition=
, passage=His throne rocked with subterraneous heavings . }}
* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Owen Wister, title=The Dragon of Wantley, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Then he set the jug down wrong side up, and remained glaring at it fixedly, while his chest rose and fell in deep heavings . }}
As nouns the difference between weaving and heaving
is that weaving is (uncountable) the process of making woven material on a loom while heaving is an occasion on which something heaves or is heaved.As verbs the difference between weaving and heaving
is that weaving is while heaving is .As an adjective heaving is
(informal) crowded with people.weaving
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(wikipedia weaving)Noun
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- Through some ill-understood quirk of balance, his drunken weavings did nothing to upset the tray — it seemed to remain calmly horizontal.
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(head)- The motorcycle is weaving in and out of traffic
heaving
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(en adjective)- Kinlochewe was heaving with cyclists and their vehicles on Saturday morning but somehow, the organisers had found space for everyone and the main roads were kept clear.
- The pool was heaving with screaming kids. By contrast the beach was virtually deserted, apart from the one day a cruise ship docked & a group of about 10 people appeared.
- At this time it was pissing down and by the time Joe Satriani cam on the tent was heaving with people just coming in to keep dry.
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