different between tricot vs weave

English

Etymology

From French tricot, from tricoter (“to knit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?iko?/

Noun

tricot (countable and uncountable, plural tricots)

1. A soft knit fabric.

Translations

French

Etymology

From tricoter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i.ko/

Noun

tricot m (plural tricots)

1. knitting
2. sweater, jumper
3. sea krait (snake)

Derived terms

• tricot de corps
• tricot rond

Descendants

Further reading

• “tricot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From French tricot.

Noun

tricot m (invariable)

1. tricot

Anagrams

• critto, crittò

Romanian

Etymology

From French tricot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tri?kot]

Noun

tricot n (plural tricoturi)

1. knitting; an object made by knitting

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From French tricot.

Noun

tricot m (plural tricots)

1. tricot

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?v, IPA^(key): /wi?v/
• Rhymes: -i?v
• Homophone: we've

Etymology 1

From Middle English weven (“to weave”), from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *weban?, from Proto-Indo-European *web?- (“to weave, braid”).

Verb

weave (third-person singular simple present weaves, present participle weaving, simple past wove or weaved, past participle woven or weaved or (now colloquial and nonstandard) wove)

1. To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.

2. To spin a cocoon or a web.

3. To unite by close connection or intermixture.
4. To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.

Related terms

• web
• sew

Translations

Noun

weave (plural weaves)

1. A type or way of weaving.

2. Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English weven (“to wander”); probably from Old Norse veifa (“move around, wave”), related to Latin vibrare.

Verb

weave (third-person singular simple present weaves, present participle weaving, simple past and past participle weaved)

1. (intransitive) To move by turning and twisting.
2. (transitive) To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
   • 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan

     Weave a circle round him thrice.

Translations

References

• weave in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• weave in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.