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[the same pronunciation]

“Weave”, as a verb ~~~  weave – wove – woven – weaving , is ‘to make a cloth, carpet, basket, (hair on the head), etc. by crossing long narrow  pieces of threads or reeds (or strands of hair) under and over each other – interlaced — (the length wise ones are called warp and the filling ones are called weft); (of a story) to include many different ideas, situations, etc. together and connect them’; and as a noun, it is ‘the act of weaving a cloth, carpet, basket, etc.’,

e.g.

Women from our state weave very complicated patterns in carpets.

The storyteller wove complicated plots of romance and crime.

Few people wear hand-woven clothes these days.

We buy only the carpets with the finest weave.

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“Weave” (verb  ~~~  weave – weaved – weaved – weaving) is ‘to go from or move in a place by taking quick and short turnings, and/or changing directions quite often’,

e.g.

Motorcyclists weave dangerously in and out of the traffic.

The old dusty path weaved over the hills and between the swamps before connecting itself to the high road.

The dining hall was so crowded that we had to weave our way through the tables, almost brushing against those sitting at the tables.

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