{
    "term": "weave",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "weave",
            "heSheIt": "weaves"
        },
        "pastSimple": "wove",
        "pastParticiple": "woven",
        "ingForm": "weaving"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to make cloth, a carpet, a basket, etc. by crossing threads or narrow pieces of material across, over and under each other by hand or on a machine called a loom",
            "sensetop": "weave A from Bweave B into Aweave something togetherweave (something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The baskets are woven from strips of willow.",
                    "contextForm": "weave A from B"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The strips of willow are woven into baskets.",
                    "contextForm": "weave B into A"
                },
                {
                    "text": "threads woven together",
                    "contextForm": "weave something together"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most spiders weave webs that are almost invisible.",
                    "contextForm": "weave (something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is skilled at spinning and weaving."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The carpet was specially woven to commemorate the 1 000th anniversary of the cathedral's foundation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The threads are woven together."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["carefully", "skilfully/​skillfully", "seamlessly"],
                "preposition": ["from", "into"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to make something by twisting flowers, pieces of wood, etc. together",
            "sensetop": "weave A (out of/from B)weave B (into A)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She deftly wove the flowers into a garland."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to move along by running and changing direction continuously to avoid things that are in your way",
            "sensetop": "+ adv./prep.weave your way + adv./prep.",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She was weaving in and out of the traffic.",
                    "contextForm": "+ adv./prep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He hurried on, weaving through the crowd."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The road weaves through a range of hills."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had to weave his way through the milling crowds.",
                    "contextForm": "weave your way + adv./prep."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to put facts, events, details, etc. together to make a story or a closely connected whole",
            "sensetop": "weave (something into) somethingweave something together",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to weave a narrative",
                    "contextForm": "weave (something into) something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The biography weaves together the various strands of Einstein's life.",
                    "contextForm": "weave something together"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Comedy and tragedy are inextricably woven into her fiction."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hall skilfully weaves the historical research into a gripping narrative."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The author seamlessly weaves together the stories of three people's lives."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The whisky is inextricably woven into Scotland's history, customs and culture."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The author weaves the narrative around the detailed eyewitness accounts."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["carefully", "skilfully/​skillfully", "seamlessly"],
                "preposition": ["from", "into"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to perform or behave in a way that is attractive or interesting, or that makes somebody behave in a particular way",
            "labels": "(especially British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Will Hegerberg be able to weave her magic against Italy on Wednesday?"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/wiːv/",
                "audio": "we/weave/weave__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/wiːvd/",
                "audio": "we/weave/weaved__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/wiːvz/",
                "audio": "we/weave/weaves__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/wəʊv/",
                "audio": "wo/weave/wove__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwəʊvn/",
                "audio": "wo/weave/woven__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwiːvɪŋ/",
                "audio": "we/weave/weaving__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/wiːv/",
                "audio": "we/weave/weave__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/wiːvd/",
                "audio": "we/weave/weaved__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/wiːvz/",
                "audio": "we/weave/weaves__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/wəʊv/",
                "audio": "wo/weave/wove__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwəʊvn/",
                "audio": "wo/weave/woven__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwiːvɪŋ/",
                "audio": "we/weave/weaving__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "verb senses 1, 2 and 4 Old English wefan, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek huphē ‘web’ and Sanskrit ūrṇavābhi ‘spider’, literally ‘wool-weaver’. The current noun sense dates from the late 19th cent. verb sense 3 late 16th cent.: probably from Old Norse veifa ‘to wave, brandish’."
}