What's the difference between weave and wind?

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.

Wind


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
  • (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
  • (v. t.) To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
  • (v. t.) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
  • (v. t.) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
  • (v. t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
  • (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.
  • (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.
  • (v. i.) To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.
  • (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
  • (n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
  • (n.) Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
  • (n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
  • (n.) Power of respiration; breath.
  • (n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
  • (n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
  • (n.) A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.
  • (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
  • (n.) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
  • (n.) The dotterel.
  • (v. t.) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
  • (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
  • (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
  • (v. t.) To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
  • (2) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (3) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (4) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
  • (5) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (6) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
  • (7) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
  • (8) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
  • (9) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
  • (10) The workforce has changed dramatically since 1900 – just 29,000 Americans today work in fishing and the number of job titles tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown to almost 600 – everything from “animal trainers” to “wind turbine service technicians” (and there are even more sub categories).
  • (11) At Weledeh Catholic School in Yellowknife, for example, it’s used to determine when to hold playtime indoors (wind chill below -30C, since you asked).
  • (12) A rather pessimistic wind is blowing over cancer chemotherapy, while a not very objective enthusiasm for second generation immunotherapy is raising its head.
  • (13) The scheme is available to those who have one or more of the following technologies: solar PV panels (roof-mounted or stand alone), wind turbines (building mounted or free standing), hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion (generating electricity from food waste), and micro combined heat and power (through the use of new types of boilers , for example).
  • (14) The railway between Norwich and Ely was blocked when strong winds caused power lines to fall across the tracks.
  • (15) Eager to show I was a good student, the next time we had sex, I noticed that one of my hands was, indeed, lying idle – and started to pat him on the back, absently, as if trying to wind a baby.
  • (16) One in four British homes could be fitted with solar heating equipment and 3,500 wind turbines could be erected across Britain within 12 years as part of a green energy revolution to be proposed by the government next week.
  • (17) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
  • (18) They’re from every other source in the environment – from the wind, from transport,” he said.
  • (19) Nineteen members of the West Midlands Police Force, who qualified as PTSD sufferers, were offered the 're-wind' technique.
  • (20) Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is likely to face: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison."