The shopkeeper couldn't tell warp from weft.
Source: tatoeba (8985136)
Weft
//wɛft//
Synonyms for "weft" (83 found)
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Related words (41)
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Translations
59 translations across 44 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- لُحْمَة noun (horizontal threads)
Armenian
1 entries- թեզան noun (horizontal threads)
Aromanian
1 entries- tramã noun (horizontal threads)
Belarusian
1 entries- уто́к noun (horizontal threads)
Bulgarian
1 entries- въ́тък noun (horizontal threads)
Catalan
1 entries- trama noun (horizontal threads)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- پۆ noun (horizontal threads)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 緯 /纬 noun (horizontal threads)
- 緯紗 /纬纱 noun (horizontal threads)
Czech
1 entries- útek noun (horizontal threads)
Dutch
1 entries- inslag noun (horizontal threads)
Finnish
2 entries- kude noun (horizontal threads)
- kudelanka noun (fill)
French
2 entries- fil de trame noun (horizontal threads)
- trame noun (horizontal threads)
Friulian
1 entries- trame noun (horizontal threads)
German
1 entries- Schussfaden noun (horizontal threads)
Hungarian
1 entries- vetülékfonal noun (horizontal threads)
Ido
1 entries- wefto noun (horizontal threads)
Indonesian
2 entries- benang pakan noun (horizontal threads)
- pakan noun (horizontal threads)
Ingrian
2 entries- kue noun (horizontal threads)
- kuerihma noun (fill)
Irish
1 entries- inneach noun (horizontal threads)
Italian
1 entries- trama noun (horizontal threads)
Japanese
2 entries- 横糸 noun (horizontal threads)
- 緯 noun (horizontal threads)
Kazakh
1 entries- арқау noun (horizontal threads)
Korean
2 entries- 씨실 noun (horizontal threads)
- 위사 noun (horizontal threads)
Latin
1 entries- subtemen noun (horizontal threads)
Macedonian
1 entries- ја́ток noun (horizontal threads)
Malayalam
1 entries- ഊട് noun (horizontal threads)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- innslag noun (horizontal threads)
- islett noun (horizontal threads)
- veft noun (horizontal threads)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- утъкъ noun (horizontal threads)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آرغاج noun (horizontal threads)
Polish
3 entries- nić wątku noun (fill)
- wątek noun (horizontal threads)
- wątek noun (fill)
Portuguese
1 entries- trama noun (horizontal threads)
Quechua
1 entries- mini noun (horizontal threads)
Romanian
2 entries- bătătură noun (horizontal threads)
- țesătură noun (fill)
Russian
2 entries- уто́к noun (horizontal threads)
- уто́чная пря́жа noun (fill)
Sanskrit
1 entries- ओत noun (horizontal threads)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pȍtka noun (horizontal threads)
- по̏тка noun (horizontal threads)
Slovak
1 entries- útok noun (horizontal threads)
Slovene
1 entries- votek noun (horizontal threads)
Spanish
1 entries- trama noun (horizontal threads)
Swedish
2 entries- inslag noun (horizontal threads)
- väft noun (horizontal threads)
Turkish
1 entries- argaç noun (horizontal threads)
Ukrainian
1 entries- уті́к noun (horizontal threads)
Venetan
1 entries- trama noun (horizontal threads)
Welsh
1 entries- anwe noun (horizontal threads)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
The loom holds the warp in place, and then you weave the weft through it from side to side. (The word "weft" comes from "weave"!) For towels, carpets, velvet and the like, there's also the nap, or the little pieces of yarn that stick out to make a softer or more absorbent fabric.
Source: tatoeba (13099813)
In weaving, the weft threads run horizontally, interlacing with the vertical warp threads.
Source: tatoeba (13564099)
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).
Source: wiktionary
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