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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made or constructed by interlacing threads or strips of material or other elements into a whole
Example:
folk songs woven into a symphony
Classified under:
Similar:
braided (woven by (or as if by) braiding)
plain-woven ((of cloth) made in plain weave)
Antonym:
unwoven (not woven)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb weave
Context examples:
The tumor is composed of woven bone trabeculae and shares similar histologic characteristics with the osteoid osteoma.
(Osteoblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Filmy purple mists, that were not vapors but fabrics woven of color, hid in the recesses of the hills.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In and out through the open woodwork was woven a crimson cord, which was secured at each side to the crosspiece below.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A receptacle with a body constructed of film, woven plastic, woven fabric, paper or combination thereof, together with any appropriate service equipment and handling devices, and if necessary, an inner coating or liner.
(Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container, NCI Thesaurus)
Madam, he pursued, I have a Master to serve whose kingdom is not of this world: my mission is to mortify in these girls the lusts of the flesh; to teach them to clothe themselves with shame-facedness and sobriety, not with braided hair and costly apparel; and each of the young persons before us has a string of hair twisted in plaits which vanity itself might have woven; these, I repeat, must be cut off; think of the time wasted, of—Mr. Brocklehurst was here interrupted: three other visitors, ladies, now entered the room.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Woven into her being was the memory of countless crimes he and his had perpetrated against her ancestry.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris; and down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been woven round him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our web to weave, while theirs is already woven.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
