Secure vs Weave - What's the difference?
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Free from attack or danger; protected.
Free from the danger of theft; safe.
Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
* Dryden
Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of .
* Milton
Overconfident; incautious; careless.
To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
* Dryden
To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against'' or ''from'', or formerly with ''of .
* T. Dick
To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
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, title= To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
To spin a cocoon or a web.
To unite by close connection or intermixture.
* Shakespeare
* Byron
To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
A type or way of weaving.
Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.
To move by turning and twisting.
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To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As verbs the difference between secure and weave
is that secure is to make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect while weave is to form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another or weave can be to move by turning and twisting.As an adjective secure
is free from attack or danger; protected.As a noun weave is
a type or way of weaving.secure
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Alternative forms
* secuer (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)- But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
- secure of a welcome
- Confidence then bore thee on, secure / Either to meet no danger, or to find / Matter of glorious trial.
- (Macaulay)
Antonyms
* insecureDerived terms
* securelyVerb
(secur)- I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
- to secure''' a creditor against loss; to '''secure a debt by a mortgage
- It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
- to secure''' a prisoner; to '''secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
- to secure an estate
Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
- With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
- "[Captain] was able to secure some good photographs of the fortress."
(Flight, 1911, p. 766)
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) , Swedish '' .Verb
- This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.
- Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
- This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.
- these words, thus woven into song
- to weave the plot of a story
Noun
(en noun)- That rug has a very tight weave .
Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) veifa'' ‘move around, wave’, related to Latin ''vibrare .Verb
(weav)- The drunk weaved into another bar.
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- The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.
- Weave a circle round him thrice.