Weft

Definition: Weft

Weft

Noun

1. The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving.

Date "weft" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Weft

Domain	Definitions
Industry	Cross-threads woven into warp to make web. Source: European Union. (references)
Industry	The crosswise yarns are the --, also referred to as the weft or the woof. Source: European Union. (references)
	A)threads widthways in a fabric as woven; b)yarn intended for use as in. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Weft

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
WEFT	English	Web Embedding Font Tool	Computer - (MS, WWW)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Weft

Synonyms: filling (n), pick (n), woof (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Weft

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Texture	Texture, surface texture; intertexture, contexture; tissue, grain, web, surface; warp and woof, warp and weft; tooth, nap. (roughness); flatness (smoothness); fineness of grain; coarseness of grain, dry goods.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Weft

English words defined with "weft": Balloon net, Bombazine ♦ Domett ♦ Empress cloth ♦ Gold lace ♦ Needle loom ♦ Rag carpet ♦ shuttle, Silver lace ♦ Toilinette, Turkey carpet ♦ Venetian carpet ♦ Warp lace, Warp net. (references)

Specialty definitions using "weft": alhambra quilt ♦ barathea, Bolton sheeting, broché, bulk handler ♦ Cavalry twill, chiné fabric, closed shedding, clouded woven fabric, cut-pile carpet ♦ dog-legged selvedge ♦ elysian fabric, English welt ♦ felling marks, filling shuttle, filling winder ♦ Grecian weave, gripper-loader ♦ henrietta ♦ imperial sateen ♦ jockey cloth ♦ links-links knitting ♦ missing pick, molleton, mule yarn ♦ pepper and salt, petersham ribbon, picks, pile carpet, pirn winder, plaits, puffed portion, purl knitting ♦ quiller ♦ raised portion, roll welt, royal rib ♦ stenter, striping unit ♦ temple cutting, truth marks ♦ Warp and Weft, warped chain, weaving shuttle, weft bobbin, weft maker, WEFT STRAIGHTENER, weft winder, weft-backed fabric, woven selvedge ♦ yarn-changing unit. (references)

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Modern Usage: Weft

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Warp and Weft (1952)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Weft

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Textile Spinning, Doubling, Twisting, Winding, Weft Winding, and Reeling Machines: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) The 2001 Report on Broadwoven, Weft, Lace and Warp Knit: World Market Segmentation by City (reference) The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Broadwoven, Weft, Lace and Warp Knit: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference) The 2000-2005 Outlook for Broadwoven, Weft, Lace and Warp Knit in Asia (reference) The World Market for Narrow Woven Fabrics and Narrow Fabrics Consisting of Warp without Weft Assembled by Means of an Adhesive: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Ikat II: Ikat with Warp, Weft, Double, Compound Weaving, Shifu, & Machine Knitting (reference) Latin American Brocades: Explorations in Supplementary Weft Techniques (reference) The 2000-2005 World Outlook for Broadwoven, Weft, Lace and Warp Knit [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference) Warp & the Weft and Other Stories (reference) Warp and Weft (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Weft

"Weft" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.70% of the time. "Weft" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	90.7%	39	55,036
Lexical Verb (base form)	6.98%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	2.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	43	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Weft

Expressions using "weft": weft bobbin ♦ weft thread ♦ weft winder. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "weft": weft-backed, weft-knitted.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Weft

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
weft	26
warp and weft	11
hair weft	3
microsoft weft	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Weft

Language		Translations for "weft"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pëlhurë (caddis, cloth, drapery, fabric, web), ind (filling, tissue). (various references)

Arabic		‏نسيج (knitting, spun, textile, texture, weaving, web, woof), ‏لحمة في النسيج, ‏قماش (cloth, fabric, tarpaulin, textile, texture, tick, tissue), ‏اللحمة (parenchyma), ‏ثوب (cloth, dress, garment, gown, material, model, robe, smock, vest, vestment, vesture). (various references)

Bulgarian		тъкан (cloth, contexture, fabric, textile, tissue, weave, web, woof), вътък (woof). (various references)

Chinese		纬纱. (various references)

Czech		tkanina (cloth, fabric, textile, tissue, weave, woof), útek. (various references)

Danish		skudgarn (filling, shoot, shute, woof), skud (bang, blast, clump shoots, filling, filling weft, flush, fruit cane, green shoot, pick, rod, shoot, shot, shute, sprout, tiller, woof), islaet (filling). (various references)

Dutch		inweefsel (filling), inslag (fill, filling, filling weft, pick, shoot, shot, shute, storage, woof). (various references)

Finnish		kude (fill, filling, filling weft, pick, shoot, shot, shute, woof). (various references)

French		trame (weaving). (various references)

German		Schuss (ball, blast, charge, dash, gunshot, kick, pop, punt, round, schuss, shot, splash, touch, woof), Eintrag (black mark, enter, entry, inscription, return, woof), Einschlag (element, envelope, felling, hem, impact, impaction, striking, woof). (various references)

Greek		υφάδι (woof). (various references)

Hungarian		szövet (cloth, drape, fabric, stuff, textile, texture, tissue, weave, web, webbing, woof). (various references)

Italian		trama (machinates, machination, plot, story, weave, web, woof). (various references)

Manx		snaie innee (weft-yarn), innagh (criss-cross, stamina; woof). (various references)

Pig Latin		eftway

Portuguese		trama (cabal, conspiracy, intrigue, machination, net, network, plot, trama, web, woof). (various references)

Romanian		bãtãturã (callosity, callus, corn, woof), ţesãturã (contexture, darn, fabric, material, netting, stuff, textile, texture, tissue, web). (various references)

Russian		уток (filling, shoot, woof). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tkanje (fabric, weaving, web, woof), potka (woof). (various references)

Spanish		trama (plot, screen, woof). (various references)

Swedish		väft (woof), inslag i väv. (various references)

Turkish		atkı (kerchief, muffler, scarf, shawl, shoe-buckle, stock, stole, tippet, wimple, woof, wrap, wrapper), argaç (woof). (various references)

Turkmen		argaз (weft (carpet-making term), woof). (various references)

Ukranian		утік (woof), хмарка (cloudlet), тканина (cloth, fabric, textile, tissue, web, webbing, woof). (various references)

Vietnamese		sợi khổ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Weft

Language	Date	Source	Exodus Chapter 39, Verse 3
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Dracmh mia th kefalh to hmisu tou siklou kata ton siklon ton agion paV o paraporeuomenoV thn episkeyin apo eikosaetouV kai epanw eiV taV exhkonta muriadaV kai triscilioi pentakosioi kai penthkonta
Latin	405	Vulgate	Opere polymitario inciditque bratteas aureas et extenuavit in fila ut possint torqueri cum priorum colorum subtemine
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And he cutte ther yn goldun peeses, and he made hem into thredes, that thei myyten be plattid with the weft of the rather colours;
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And they dyd beate the golde in to thynne plates, ad cutte it in to wyres: to worke it in the Iacincte, scarlet, purple and the bysse, with broderd worke.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And they beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with curious work.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Hammering the gold into thin plates and cutting it into wires to be worked into the blue and the purple and the red and the linen by the designer.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Weft

Language	Exodus Chapter 39, Verse 3
Cebuano	Ug gibakbak nila ang mga pinalid nga manipis nga bulawan, ug gitabastabas nila sama sa mga hilo aron sa paghabol niini sa taliwala sa azul, ug sa taliwala sa purpura, ug sa taliwala sa mapula, ug sa taliwala sa lino nga fino, nga buhat sa batid nga mamumuhat:
Croatian	Skuju zlatne ploèice, a onda ih na niti izrežu da ih vještaèki uvezu u ljubièasto, crveno i tamnocrveno predivo i prepredeni lan.
Danish	idet de udhamrede Guldet i Plader og skar Pladerne ud i Tråde til at væve ind i det violette og røde Purpurgarn, det karmoisinrøde Garn og det tvundne Byssus ved Kunstvævning.
Dutch	En zij rekten uit de dunne platen van goud, en sneden het tot draden, om te doen in het midden van het hemelsblauw, en in het midden van het purper, en in het midden van het scharlaken, en in het midden van het fijn linnen, van het allerkunstelijkste werk.
Finnish	Kultalevyt taottiin ohuiksi ja leikattiin säikeiksi, taidokkaasti kudottaviksi punasinisten, purppuranpunaisten ja helakanpunaisten lankojen ja valkoisten pellavalankojen sekaan.
French	On étendit des lames d`or, et on les coupa en fils, que l`on entrelaça dans les étoffes teintes en bleu, en pourpre et en cramoisi, et dans le fin lin; il était artistement travaillé.
German	Und sie schlugen das Gold und schnitten's zu Faden, daß man's künstlich wirken konnte unter den blauen und roten Purpur, Scharlach und weiße Leinwand.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Mereka menempa lempeng-lempeng emas yang kemudian dipotong-potong menjadi benang tipis, lalu ditenun dengan kain linen halus dan wol biru, ungu dan merah.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka ditempakannya emas itu menjadi berkeping-keping yang tipis, lalu dihunusnya menjadi dawai akan dibubuh di antara benang yang biru laut dan di antara yang ungu dan di antara yang kirmizi warnanya dan di antara bisus itu, menjadi suatu tenunan yang amat kepandaian.
Italian	Fecero placche d'oro battuto e le tagliarono in striscie sottili, per intrecciarle con la porpora viola, la porpora rossa, lo scarlatto e il bisso, lavoro d'artista.
Maori	I patua ano hoki te koura hei paraharaha, a ripiripia ana hei mangemange, a mahia ana ki roto ki te puru, ki te papura, ki te ngangana, ki te rinena pai, he tohunga rawa te mahi.
Norwegian	De hamret ut gullet til plater og klippet det op til tråder, så det kunde virkes inn i den blå og purpurrøde og karmosinrøde ull og i det fine lingarn med kunstvevning.
Portuguese	bateram o ouro em lâminas delgadas, as quais cortaram em fios, para entretecê-lo no azul, na púrpura, no carmesim e no linho fino, em obra de desenhista;
Rumanian	Au kntins niwte plqci de aur, wi le-au tqiat kn fire subyiri, pe cari le-au yesut kn materiile vopsite kn albastru, kn purpuriu wi kn cqrmiziu, wi kn in subyire; era lucrat cu mqestrie.
Spanish	Extendieron láminas de oro e hicieron hilos para tejerlos junto con el material azul, la púrpura, el carmesí y el lino, obra de fina artesanía.
Swedish	Man hamrade ut guldet till tunna plåtar och skar dessa i trådar, så att man kunde väva in det i det mörkblåa, det purpurröda, det rosenröda och det vita garnet, med konstvävnad.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Weft

Derivations
	Words beginning with "weft": wefts, weftwise. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Weft" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aefg, awaft, dweft, eft, ietf, meft, qef, waff, wafta, waftd, walft, walt, weat, webt, weedt, weef, wef, wefty, weift, wett, wext, wift, wifty, woct, woef, woft, wuf, Wufi, wyf, zeft. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Weft

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-t-w"
	-1 letter: eft, fet, few, tew, wet.
	-2 letters: ef, et, we.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-t-w"
	+1 letter: wefts.
	+2 letters: fewest, twofer, wafted, wafter.
	+3 letters: felwort, fitchew, forwent, fretsaw, outflew, swifter, twelfth, twofers, waftage, wafters, wafture, webfeet, webfoot, whiffet, wiftier.
	+4 letters: crowfeet, dwarfest, fawniest, felworts, fewtrils, fitchews, flatware, flatwise, flawiest, fleawort, floweret, footwear, forewent, fretsaws, fretwork, frowsted, giftware, leftward, leftwing, software, swifters, swiftest, swiftlet, twelfths, upwafted, waftages, waftures, wasteful, weftwise, wetproof, whiffets, whitefly, wiftiest, writeoff.
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