Weaving vs Knit - What's the difference?
weaving | knit |
(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
and To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.
(figuratively) To join closely and firmly together.
* Wiseman
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* Tennyson
To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
To grow together.
To combine from various elements.
To heal (of bones) following a fracture.
To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
* Bible, Acts x. 11
* Shakespeare
To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between weaving and knit
is that weaving is while knit is and to turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other this can be done by hand with needles or by machine.As a noun weaving
is (uncountable) the process of making woven material on a loom.weaving
English
(wikipedia weaving)Noun
citation
- Through some ill-understood quirk of balance, his drunken weavings did nothing to upset the tray — it seemed to remain calmly horizontal.
Verb
(head)- The motorcycle is weaving in and out of traffic
knit
English
(Knitting)Verb
- to knit a stocking
- The first generation knitted''' to order; the second still '''knits''' for its own use; the next leaves '''knitting to industrial manufacturers.
- The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
- Nature cannot knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.
- Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit .
- Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, / In a light fantastic round.
- A link among the days, to knit / The generations each to each.
- All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
- The witness knitted his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
- I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit .''
- a great sheet knit at the four corners
- When your head did but ache, / I knit my handkercher about your brows.
- He knits his brow and shows an angry eye.