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Webbing vs Weaving - What's the difference?

webbing | weaving |

As nouns the difference between webbing and weaving

is that webbing is a sturdy woven fabric while weaving is (uncountable) the process of making woven material on a loom.

As a verb weaving is

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webbing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sturdy woven fabric
  • The webbing of the lawn chair made marks on his thigh.
  • (military) A belt and shoulder harness with attached pouches used to carry a soldier's equipment, water, ammunition, etc.
  • (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the web
  • He caught the ball in the webbing .

    Synonyms

    * (military) web gear, web belt

    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