What does weave mean?
Word: Weave
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Weave means to make cloth or mats by passing threads or strips over and under each other.
Sounds like: we've (the short form of we have)
How do you spell weave?
Syllables: weave
Tricky part: The long ee sound in the middle is spelt ea, so pupils who write what they hear put two e's there.
Watch out for: weeve, wieve
Memory tip: Picture a mat maker stopping for a cup of tea: the ea of tea sits in the middle of this word too.
Weave in a sentence
Example 1: Craft workers in Varanasi weave silk saris with fine gold thread.
Example 2: Our art teacher showed us how to weave strips of coloured paper into a bookmark.
Example 3: The women of the village weave rugs through the long winter months.
Fun Fact
This verb changes inside when its tense changes: today you weave, yesterday you wove, and a finished cloth has been woven.
Practise the CREST Way
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
vewae
a) weave
b) heave
c) waver
d) leave
Show answer
a) weave. Two e's, an a, a v and a w are all you have, and only one of these words uses exactly those.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
weavee
a) e
b) w
c) a
d) v
Show answer
a) e. Take away one e from the end and the word is complete.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
My aunt will teach us to wheave a small mat from palm leaves.
a) leaves
b) wheave
c) palm
d) teach
Show answer
b) wheave. Not every word that starts with a w sound needs an h after the w, and this one never does.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) whispar
b) scrach
c) weave
d) sqeeze
Show answer
c) weave. Whisper ends in er, squeeze has a u after the q, and scratch has a t before its ch.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these would you weave rather than mould, glue or carve?
a) a clay lamp
b) a cane basket
c) a wooden stool
d) a paper kite
Show answer
b) a cane basket
2. What do you need to weave a length of cloth from thread?
a) a loom
b) a kiln
c) a lathe
d) a plough
Show answer
a) a loom
