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the car was weaving in and out of the traffic

  • 1 weave

    1. III
    weave smth.
    1) weave a cloth (wool, etc.) ткать материю и т.д.; weave a basket (a wreath, a garland, straw, etc.) плести корзину и т.д.; the spider weaves its web паук плетет свою паутину
    2) coll. weave a story (a history, a narrative, fiction, incidents, an allegory, etc.) сочинять /выдумывать/ рассказ и т.д.; weave a plot плести сети заговора
    2. IV
    1) weave smth. in some manner weave a cloth (clothes, etc.) skilfully (/artfully, dexterously/, coarsely, subtly, laboriously, etc.) искусно и т.д. ткать материю и т.д.; weave a basket (a wreath, a web, etc.) deftly (skilfully, etc.) ловко и т.д. плести корзину и т.д.; weave threads together сплетать нити
    2) weave smth. in same manner coll. weave a story (a narrative, etc.) skilfully (subtly, etc.) искусно и т.д. сочинять /выдумывать/ рассказ и т.д.
    3) weave smth. somewhere weave one's way uphill (down, etc.) петлять /двигаться зигзагами/ вверх по склону и т.д.
    3. XI
    1) be woven in some manner the story is skilfully woven рассказ умело сочинен/ловко закручен/
    2) be woven of smth. it is woven of silk это соткано из шелка; be woven into smth. a golden thread is woven into cloth в ткани проходит золотая нитка
    4. XVI
    weave around (in, out of, through, etc.) smth. weave around streets (in and out of traffic, through the traffic, etc.) кружить /петлять/ по улицам и т.д.; the car was weaving in and out of the woods машина то пропадала в лесу, то снова появлялась; the road weaves through the valleys дорога вьется, переходя из одной долины в другую ХIХ2 abs it seemed the cars were weaving like mad /like crazy/ казалось, машины метались как безумные
    5. XXI1
    1) weave smth. on (of, by, into, etc.) smth. weave a cloth on looms (of /out of/ threads, of /out of/ silk, etc.) ткать материю на станках и т.д.; weave a carpet by hand ткать ковер вручную; weave a cloth from wool вырабатывать ткань из шерсти; weave threads in (to) cloth (in(to) fabric, into a web, etc.) вплетать нитки в ткань и т.д.; weave flowers (leaves, etc.) into a garland (into a wreath, etc.) сплетать цветы и т.д. в гирлянду и т.д.; weave ribbons (flowers, etc.) into /through/ one's hair вплетать ленты и т.д. в волосы
    2) weave smth. in (to) smth. weave incidents (facts, episodes, etc.) in (to) a story (in(to) a tale, in(to) a poem, in(to) a continuous narrative, in(to) a connected whole, etc.) вводить /включать, вплетать/ отдельные события и т.д. в рассказ и т.д.; weave smth. round smb., smth. weave a romance (a story, a narrative, etc.) round a person (round an incident, etc.) сочинить целый роман и т.д. о каком-л. человеке и т.д.
    3) || weave one's way through a crowd (through a forest, through traffic, etc.) пробираться сквозь толпу и т.д.

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > weave

  • 2 weave

    weave [wi:v]
    (verb: preterite wove, past participle woven)
    [+ threads, cloth, web] tisser ; [+ strands] entrelacer ; [+ basket, garland, daisies] tresser
    (past tense and past participle in general weaved)
    • let's get weaving! (old-fashioned: inf) allons, remuons-nous !
    * * *
    [wiːv] 1.
    noun tissage m
    2.
    transitive verb (prét wove ou weaved; pp woven ou weaved)
    2) ( interlace) gen tresser; [spider] tisser
    3) fig inventer [story]
    4) ( move)
    3.

    to weave towards something — ( drunk) s'approcher en titubant de quelque chose; ( avoiding obstacles) se frayer un chemin vers quelque chose

    4.
    woven past participle adjective [fabric, cloth, jacket] tissé

    English-French dictionary > weave

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