(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.
Weft
Definition:
() 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Filtration through 8-mum membrane filters (Millipore Corp.) more effectively separated hyphae and spore clumps from single spores than did filtration through cotton wefts or paper.
(2) Following a series of laboratory tests and implantations as a thoracoabdominal bypass in dogs, the Barone Microvelour has been identified as a strong graft constructed after the style of early weft-knitted designs.
(3) But Holland-Kaye insists: “We’re working with them – it’s part of the warp and weft of an airport community.” Heathrow has contributed to double glazing and adobe huts, originally designed as earthquake shelters, to protect pupils from noise.
(4) Our experiments indicate that the warp knitted grafts are more distensible than the weft knitted ones, but they are all more rigid than the replaced arteries.
(5) Complications such as thromboses, infections and false aneurysms appear to occur randomly after different lengths of implantation, thicker fibrous tissue capsules are associated with velour grafts with highly textured yarns, the incidence of mineralized tissue and of endothelialized luminal surfaces is rare, weft knitted textile prostheses appear less mechanically stable and more sensitive to iatrogenic trauma than warp knitted, and the incidences of lipid and cholesterol adsorption, bacterial colonization and sterile fluid loss need further investigation.
(6) But to me, alliteration is the warp and weft of the poem, without which it is just so many fine threads.
(7) The buds are first discernible as low surface evaginations which contain a complement of granular somal material, some wefts of tubular membrane and osmiophilic globuli, in addition to a number of vesicles derived by invagination from the inner membrane of the proplastid envelope.
(8) The deformation response of inflated grafts for a set of Czechoslovak-made warp and weft knitted grafts was also measured on a special experimental device.
(9) Such tactics are the warp and weft of political campaigning.
(10) Their place could be located in between formal traditional wefts, relating to institutional structures as well as to specific medical practice.
(11) Its magical moving pictures, its sounds and words are not just “content”, but the tissue of our dreams, the warp and weft of our memories, the staging posts of our lives.
(12) This is a government with little feel for the warp and weft of British life: it is rationalist, technocratic, and arrogant.
(13) Artificial aortic aneurysms with fusiform Dacron conduits were created at surgery , a weft-knit Dacron tube with balloon-expandable stents attached at both ends was inserted transfemorally through a 14-F introducer sheath and expanded at the aneurysmal level by means of inflation of a coaxial balloon.
(14) The extent to which the Disney corporation went to control the warp and weft of Celebration speaks to one of the central paradoxes of modern American life.
(15) The stroma in these is dense and granular and contains membrane-bound vesicles, osmiophilic globuli, starch granules and wefts of tubular membrane.
(16) The typical fibrous weft of the membrane which closely sticks to the handle of the malleus, on one side, and in the sulcus, on the other side, gives an optimal layout and ensures the stability of the graft.