Woof
[wʊf]
Definition
(n.) The threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.
(n.) Texture; cloth; as, a pall of softest woof.
Inputed by Hahn
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Weft.
Inputed by Gustav
Definition
n. same as Weft (q.v.).—adj. Woof′y dense.
Editor: Vito
Examples
- Bar was a man of great variety; but one leading thread ran through the woof of all his patterns. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Through this shed the shuttle which carries the woof or filling thread is sent crosswise the warp threads. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Fair is the night, but less fair than my lover absent; Unveil thyself from the jealous cloud-woof, And thou wilt see how fair is he I worship. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Or, to use a Platonic image, justice and the State are the warp and the woof which run through the whole texture. Plato. The Republic.
- It is an organ for analysis of the warp and woof of the present social fabric, of making known the forces which have woven the pattern. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- So also in invention is its warp and woof made up of a multitude of little threads behind the gorgeous patterns of meteoric genius. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Serena