weft

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.
    — It is all the more remarkable therefore that in one respect — weft colours — some of the pirnless looms are more versatile than conventional machines. Figure 6 shows the colour mechanism of a conventional loom designed to weave six colours of weft (there is never any problem about colour patterning in the warp).
  2. Alternative spelling of waif. alt-of,alternative,obsolete
    — The gentle Lady, loose at randon left, / The greene-wood long did walke, and wander wide / At wilde aduenture, like a forlorne weft,
  3. The yarn used for the weft; the fill.
  4. A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair.
    — Teaching tools include mannequins, slip-ons, hair wefts, rectangles, and profiles.

词形变化

wefts plural wefts plural

词汇关系

衍生词
warp and weft weftwise

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wefte, from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *webaną. Equivalent to weave + -t (abstract nominal suffix).
词源 2
Compare waif.
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