woof
3
9.9
- noun
- /wʊf/
- Specialized
:
trama
- The artist skillfully illustrated the warp and woof of the tapestry in her latest exhibition.
- woof and warp
Examples
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In order to be understood, the Second Amendment must be seen within the context of the times, within the warp and woof of colonial America and how Christians viewed arms.
Blog text (5) -
It has steadily crept into the very warp and woof of modern society, which has cut itself off from Christ and the Church.
Academic text (2010) -
From the structure of the verse, let us pass to the woof and warp of the style.
Academic text (1993) -
Such promises formed the warp and woof of American ideals regarding democracy and citizenship.
Academic text (1999) -
The communication system that had been the warp and woof of this nation had succumbed to EMP.
Fiction book (1990) -
And indeed, his treatment of liberty has become the very warp and woof of American constitutional law and public sentiment in the twentieth century.
Academic text (1996) -
He had a feel for the warp and woof of historical processes, the ebb and flow, the development and decline of ideas.
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One might enshrine the thought as holding that political democracy is a sham unless it is embedded in a society in which deliberation on public affairs is part of the woof and warp of everyday life.
Academic text (1998) -
This revival was not a hermetically sealed religious movement, as this essay seeks to demonstrate, but was in fact very much part of the warp and woof of Britain's modernization.
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Recognizing the new order of things, Cogewea realized that these threads in the woof of her people's philosophy must be irretrievably lost unless speedily placed on record (1981:33).
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
2
9.1
The thread that goes across fabric when people weave it
A horizontal thread that goes across other threads to make cloth
Threads that go across other threads to make fabric
Surface Forms
Etymology
Woof comes from an old word meaning 'to weave' and is related to the words weave and weft, so it names the threads that go across the loom. That's why woof means the cross yarn in woven cloth.