- 1織布工、織者；織布的人。台灣常見於「原住民織女／編織工藝」的說法。也是英文常見姓氏。
A weaver is a person who makes cloth by weaving — crossing threads over and under each other, usually on a machine called a . It is one of the oldest jobs in the world. In Taiwan you meet the word most often talking about indigenous weavers, or 原住民 weaving traditions, or an old craft shop.
The shape is simple: weave + -er, 'the one who weaves', like teach → teacher, drive → driver.
A few extra things a curious student likes. Weaver is a very common family name in English (like Sigourney Weaver), because in old England people were named after their work — Weaver, Baker, Smith, Taylor, Miller. If you meet a Mr Weaver, nobody expects him to own a .
There is also a bird called a weaver, or weaver bird — a small African bird that builds a beautiful hanging nest by weaving grass. And people stretch the word to anyone who puts things together : 'a weaver of stories' means a very good . That use sounds literary, not everyday.
組成weave (織) + -er (做這件事的人). The word came down through Old English and is a cousin of German Weber and Dutch wever, which mean exactly the same thing.
原始詞典資料14 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Weavername/ˈwivɚ/
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A surname originating as an occupation for a weaver.
- The oldest Weaver girls, Sara, 16, and Rachel, 10, were unharmed, as was their infant sister, Elisheba, whom Vicki had been holding when a sniper’s bullet crashed into her head.
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A river in Cheshire, England.
weavernoun/ˈwiː.və(ɹ)/
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A person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.
- The Silks, varniſh'd Works, Ink, Paper, and in general every thing that comes, both from Nan-king and the other Cities of the Province, which carry on an aſtoniſhing Trade, is much more eſteem'd and dear, than what is brought from other Provinces. In the City Shang-hay only, and the Villages belonging to it, they reckon above 200,000 Weavers of Callico.
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A horizontal strand of material used in basket weaving.
- To add a new weaver, simply soak a new one, slide one end under a rib (over the old weaver) and continue weaving with both of them until the old one runs out. […] If your weaver has dried, rewet it and weave several rows as in Diagram 26.
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A weaverbird.
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An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus.
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Any of certain spider species, such as the sheet weaver or the funnel weaver, so named because they spin interesting and characteristic webs.
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Any of certain fish of the family Pinguipedidae.
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