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Weaving vs Knit - What's the difference?

weaving | knit |

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

Noun

  • (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 citation
  • , 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
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • (figuratively) To join closely and firmly together.
  • The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
  • * Wiseman
  • Nature cannot knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit .
  • * Milton
  • Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, / In a light fantastic round.
  • * Tennyson
  • A link among the days, to knit / The generations each to each.
  • To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
  • To grow together.
  • All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
  • To combine from various elements.
  • The witness knitted his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
  • To heal (of bones) following a fracture.
  • I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit .''
  • To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
  • * Bible, Acts x. 11
  • a great sheet knit at the four corners
  • * Shakespeare
  • When your head did but ache, / I knit my handkercher about your brows.
  • To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He knits his brow and shows an angry eye.

    Derived terms

    * close-knit * knit one's brow / knit one's brows * knitter * knitting * knitting needle * knitwear * stick to one's knitting

    See also

    * tricot * weave

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