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Definition of weaver in English:

weaver

noun ˈwiːvəˈwivər
  • 1A person who weaves fabric.

    织布工,编织者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Silver wire was used by embroiderers, lace-makers and weavers for embellishing high-quality fabrics.
    • Different streets were allotted for different professions such as potters, weavers, dyers, jewellers, and bakers.
    • This was not the case in parts of Ulster, where a substantial proportion of linen weavers were not independent producers but wage-workers.
    • In Kanchipuram, a centre of silk weaving, male weavers alone were recognised by the government cooperatives.
    • In the early 1800s, the French weaver Joseph Jacquard invented a loom in which a series of punched cards controlled the patterns of cloth and carpet produced.
    • This led to an enormous leap in productivity especially among tool makers, weavers and metal workers.
    • Those who make their living as blacksmiths, weavers, potters, or musicians are looked upon with some disfavor and suspicion.
    • Armed with the strongest and finest cotton thread in the world, Bolton's weavers were able to produce the finest cotton material in the world.
    • The library has recently acquired a weaver's pattern book printed in the seventeenth century described by the textile historian Patricia Hilts as the earliest known example of its genre.
    • People usually specialized in a particular trade, barrel makers, wheelwrights, weavers and so forth.
    • He can trace his ancestors in this area back to 1650, a long line of shepherds, coopers, weavers and the occasional collier.
    • The largest group were Huguenots, many of them silk weavers, silversmiths, and furniture makers.
    • Well, each one of them is not only a piece of art but represents magic created on wild silk by traditional weavers.
    • It had two butchers, two coopers, two weavers, a shoemaker, blacksmith, a cornmill, a pound, a lime kiln and, of course, a pub.
    • Women are expert weavers and dyers and make their own cloth.
    • On the whole, it is an earnest attempt to preserve traditional crafts from extinction and to help skilled craftsmen and weavers, who are living in penury.
    • He lists the names of dyers, weavers, and embroiderers where possible.
    • Almost everyone employed the carpenter's skill in some way, from fishermen and weavers to shoe-makers.
    • We set out for the neighbouring village of Kethan, where simple weavers wove the delicate fabric of cotton and silk embroidered with gold and silver.
    • Calling all Bolton ex-mill workers, carders, spinners, winders and weavers… someone wants to hear your story.
  • 2A songbird of tropical Africa and Asia, related to the sparrows and building elaborately woven nests.

    织布鸟

    Family Ploceidae: several genera, in particular Ploceus, and numerous species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The sociable weaver is endemic to southern Africa, with its core distribution being in the Northern Cape and Namibia.
    • It is also beautiful and tranquil and I have seen kingfishers there as well as hundreds of weavers.
    • Well they're in the trees in our street… All the usual ones - sunbirds, weavers, orioles and so on.
    • The weavers' primary reptilian enemies are the boomslang and the Cape cobra.
    • All the animals had gathered there - giraffes, hippos, antelope, buffalo, warthogs, zebras, aardvarks, hyenas, mongooses, storks and weaver birds.
    • A weaver bird uses its own body as a template as it builds the hemispherical egg chamber of its nest.
    • The weaver will feed the cuckoo's chick together with her own two chicks.
    • To burn those extra calories, a colony of 150 weavers with no nest would have to catch and eat 4,500 more insects each day.
    • During three days in the park, we saw everything from lions, rhinos, and giraffes to herds of impalas and flocks of weaver birds, so named because they weave nests that hang pendant-like from trees.

Rhymes

achiever, believer, cleaver, deceiver, diva, Eva, fever, Geneva, griever, heaver, leaver, lever, Neva, perceiver, receiver, reiver, reliever, retriever, Shiva, underachiever, viva, weever

Definition of weaver in US English:

weaver

nounˈwēvərˈwivər
  • 1A person who weaves fabric.

    织布工,编织者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Armed with the strongest and finest cotton thread in the world, Bolton's weavers were able to produce the finest cotton material in the world.
    • He can trace his ancestors in this area back to 1650, a long line of shepherds, coopers, weavers and the occasional collier.
    • We set out for the neighbouring village of Kethan, where simple weavers wove the delicate fabric of cotton and silk embroidered with gold and silver.
    • Different streets were allotted for different professions such as potters, weavers, dyers, jewellers, and bakers.
    • People usually specialized in a particular trade, barrel makers, wheelwrights, weavers and so forth.
    • Almost everyone employed the carpenter's skill in some way, from fishermen and weavers to shoe-makers.
    • On the whole, it is an earnest attempt to preserve traditional crafts from extinction and to help skilled craftsmen and weavers, who are living in penury.
    • In the early 1800s, the French weaver Joseph Jacquard invented a loom in which a series of punched cards controlled the patterns of cloth and carpet produced.
    • Calling all Bolton ex-mill workers, carders, spinners, winders and weavers… someone wants to hear your story.
    • The library has recently acquired a weaver's pattern book printed in the seventeenth century described by the textile historian Patricia Hilts as the earliest known example of its genre.
    • Women are expert weavers and dyers and make their own cloth.
    • The largest group were Huguenots, many of them silk weavers, silversmiths, and furniture makers.
    • He lists the names of dyers, weavers, and embroiderers where possible.
    • Silver wire was used by embroiderers, lace-makers and weavers for embellishing high-quality fabrics.
    • It had two butchers, two coopers, two weavers, a shoemaker, blacksmith, a cornmill, a pound, a lime kiln and, of course, a pub.
    • In Kanchipuram, a centre of silk weaving, male weavers alone were recognised by the government cooperatives.
    • Well, each one of them is not only a piece of art but represents magic created on wild silk by traditional weavers.
    • This was not the case in parts of Ulster, where a substantial proportion of linen weavers were not independent producers but wage-workers.
    • Those who make their living as blacksmiths, weavers, potters, or musicians are looked upon with some disfavor and suspicion.
    • This led to an enormous leap in productivity especially among tool makers, weavers and metal workers.
  • 2A songbird of tropical Africa and Asia, related to the sparrows and building elaborately woven nests.

    织布鸟

    Family Ploceidae: several genera, in particular Ploceus, and numerous species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A weaver bird uses its own body as a template as it builds the hemispherical egg chamber of its nest.
    • All the animals had gathered there - giraffes, hippos, antelope, buffalo, warthogs, zebras, aardvarks, hyenas, mongooses, storks and weaver birds.
    • The weaver will feed the cuckoo's chick together with her own two chicks.
    • The sociable weaver is endemic to southern Africa, with its core distribution being in the Northern Cape and Namibia.
    • It is also beautiful and tranquil and I have seen kingfishers there as well as hundreds of weavers.
    • Well they're in the trees in our street… All the usual ones - sunbirds, weavers, orioles and so on.
    • The weavers' primary reptilian enemies are the boomslang and the Cape cobra.
    • To burn those extra calories, a colony of 150 weavers with no nest would have to catch and eat 4,500 more insects each day.
    • During three days in the park, we saw everything from lions, rhinos, and giraffes to herds of impalas and flocks of weaver birds, so named because they weave nests that hang pendant-like from trees.
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