Weft

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The horizontal threads interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric; woof.
  • n. Yarn used for the weft.
  • n. Woven fabric.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.
  • n. The yarn used for the weft; the fill.
  • n. A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imp. & p. p. of wave.
  • n. A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif.
  • n. The woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp from selvage to selvage; the thread carried by the shuttle in weaving.
  • n. A web; a thing woven.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The threads, taken together, which run across the web from side to side, or from selvage to selvage. Also called woof.
  • n. In botany, a name sometimes given to a felt-like stratum produced in certain fungi by abundant closely interwoven hyphæ.
  • n. An obsolete form of the preterit and past participle of wave.
  • n. Same as waif
  • n. A dialectal form of waft, 3.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    thread    yarn   
    Variant
    wave   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    waif    web    woo    woof   
    Same Context
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