waver vs weave

waver

verb
  • To sway back and forth; to totter or reel. 

  • To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch. 

  • To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice. 

  • To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way. 

  • To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate. 

  • To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light. 

noun
  • Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment). 

  • Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc. 

  • An act of wavering, vacillating, etc. 

  • A tool that accomplishes hair waving. 

weave

verb
  • To move by turning and twisting. 

  • To unite by close connection or intermixture. 

  • To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. 

  • To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate. 

  • To spin a cocoon or a web. 

  • To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side. 

  • To move the head back and forth in a stereotyped pattern, typically as a symptom of stress. 

noun
  • Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair. 

  • A type or way of weaving. 

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