(v. i.) To weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.
(v. t.) An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving.
(v. t.) A fabric women with a twill.
(v. t.) A quill, or spool, for yarn.
Example Sentences:
(1) I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
(2) "If United do get Louis van Gaal, twill be like getting a hybrid of Guardiola and Mourinho - Guardiola's methodology and Mourinho's arrogance and occasional (everytime) madness."
(3) Heavier-weight fabrics, such as denim and twill, are better barriers.
(4) The fabrics were 4.8-ox twill weave Nomex aramide, 4.5-oz stabilized twill weave polybenzimidazole, 4.8-oz plain weave experimental high-temperature polymer (HT4), and 4.8-oz plain weave Nomex aramide (New Weave Nomex or NWN).
(5) She's also making chocolate caramel twills which she will fill with truffles.
(6) The twill fabric was a better barrier to transmission than the plain fabrics.
Weave
Definition:
(v. t.) To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately.
(v. t.) To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story.
(v. i.) To practice weaving; to work with a loom.
(v. i.) To become woven or interwoven.
(n.) A particular method or pattern of weaving; as, the cassimere weave.
Example Sentences:
(1) She said she has turned to hairdressing to pay the bills, with “appointments for braids and weaves about three times a week”.
(2) I still find that trying to weave together into a visual narrative and cutting together two pieces of a film – two different images.
(3) The fabric protection factors (FPF) of 5 metal meshes, to simulate the weave pattern and yarn dimensions of typical fabrics, and 6 textiles with variable construction (woven and knitted), fibre type and dye were determined using a spectrophotometric assay and human skin testing.
(4) Weaving, a senior partner at Brampton Medical Practice, is also one of six "lead GPs" who are each responsible for heading the GPs in the region within which they are based.
(5) This indicates that the weave complex contributes to the initial rectilinear portion of the pressure volume curve.
(6) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(7) One of the few regulations that has been spelt out in black and white is the maximum height limit – so planes don’t have to weave between spires on their way to and from City Airport, five miles to the east.
(8) Life in short Age 50 Family Married with two children Education Emanuel school, London; Queen's College, Oxford Career Telecoms engineer (1976-78); software engineer (1978); consultant, Cern, Geneva (1978-80); founding director of Image Computer Systems (1981-84); Cern Fellowship (1984-94); developed global hypertext project which became world wide web and designed URL (universal resource locator) and HTML (hypertext markup language) Publication Weaving the Web (1999) Awards OBE (1997); KBE (2004) Quote "Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography.
(9) S(+)-MDMA was more potent than R(-)-MDMA in eliciting stereotyped behaviors such as sniffing, head-weaving, backpedalling and turning and wet-dog shakes.
(10) Popular magazines, greeting cards, and cartoons weave themes about time into the fabric of other messages.
(11) The combined administration of tranylcypromine (TCP) and ethanol to rats produced both a marked increase in general locomotion such as walking and running and the appearance of repetitive stereotyped head and trunk weaving, forepaw padding, and circling movements.
(12) But by weaving together official letters, testimony from humans rights organizations and other public sources, the Open Society report draws for the first time a picture of near-total cooperation in European capitals with the Americans' extra-legal strategy to crack the al-Qaida network.
(13) 1982) suggested to require DA (head weaving, reciprocal forepaw treading).
(14) But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language.
(15) In interviews, too, Rubio typically responds to endless Trump-related queries by pivoting back to his own campaign, which weaves his compelling personal story into an optimistic pitch on restoring economic opportunity.
(16) In addition to a weaving violin and a zither that sends chills down your spine, there is a solo voice - similar to the muezzin's call from the minarets - that is full of heartbreaking longing.
(17) The histological features were similar in all the cases--most strikingly the basket weave pattern of the thickened pleura and a dense subpleural parenchymal interstitial fibrosis with fine honeycombing, extending up to 1 cm into the underlying lung.
(18) In the weaving departments, the decrease in the number of looms will not effectively reduce the noise level.
(19) Expansive open-plan floors are once again linked with weaving flights of escalators, only here they are suspended precipitously through dramatic interlocking rotundas, which climb from the cavernous lending library terraces, up through floating rings of bookshelves, to the heavenly reaches of the light-flooded atrium above.
(20) These results suggest that the clonic seizure immediately preceding head-weaving behaviour elicited by 8-OH-DPAT is mediated mainly by serotonergic receptor 1A and also by additional factors.