Meanings of warp and weft in English

Mixed marriages are part of the warp and weft of contemporary British Catholicism.

Beyond the hole, the warp and weft of his shroud glittered like a promised land.

But the warp and weft of personal family tradition is never quite so cut and dried.

They are warp and weft, fire and flame.

He had actually considered removing himself from the equation, escaping from the warp and weft of Fate's loom.

I'd seen them before, but only in corners where unsuspecting creatures wouldn't be caught in time's warp and weft.

The two series of threads which are interlaced receive the technical terms of warp and weft-inpoetical language, warp and woof.

The shuttles and spools are made by machinery; and more important still, both warp and weft is purchased ready-spun from mills.

But to me, alliteration is the warp and weft of the poem, without which it is just so many fine threads.

DeLillo's grand schema is to chart these undercurrents, this hidden matrix, the invisible warp and weft that knit together our human existence.

Its warp and weft of smearing words, literary allusions, multilingual puns and rushing streams of consciousness are now primarily used to enslave academics.

Take the tour to find out all about the unlikely warp and weft of its origins, spun by a nun and a freemason.

With blue and pink and orange and purple added in, the starscape was rapidly becoming a confused, spaghetti tangle of multihued warp and weft.

Others talk about making viruses encased in protein sheaths that can be used to produce fabric with molecular circuitry woven into its warp and weft.

Lang, on the album Warp and Weft.

It may have been five years since her last album, 2013's Warp and Weft, but Oregon-based singer-songwriter Laura Veirs has not been idle.