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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD WEEVER

From Old Northern French wivre viper, ultimately from Latin vīperaviper.
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PRONUNCIATION OF WEEVER

weever  [ˈwiːvə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WEEVER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Weever is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WEEVER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

weever

Weever

Weevers are 9 extant species of fishes of family Trachinidae, order Perciformes. They are long, mainly brown in color, and have poisonous spines on their first dorsal fins and gills. During the day, weevers bury themselves in sand, just showing their eyes, and snatch prey as it comes past, which consists of shrimp and small fish. Weevers are unusual in not having swim bladders, as do most bony fish, and as a result, sink as soon as they stop actively swimming. With the exception of T. cornutus from the southeast Pacific, all species in this family are restricted to the eastern Atlantic. A tenth, extinct species, Callipterus speciosus, is known from the Monte Bolca lagerstatte of the Lutetian epoch. Weevers are sometimes used as an ingredient in the recipe for bouillabaisse. Weevers are sometimes erroneously called 'weaver fish', although the word is unrelated. In fact, the word 'weever' is believed to derive from the Old French word wivre, meaning serpent or dragon, from the Latin vipera. It is sometimes also known as the viperfish, although it is not related to the viperfish proper.

Definition of weever in the English dictionary

The definition of weever in the dictionary is any small marine percoid fish of the family Trachinidae, such as Trachinus vipera of European waters, having venomous spines around the gills and the dorsal fin.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WEEVER


basketweaver
ˈbɑːskɪtˌwiːvə
beaver
ˈbiːvə
believer
bɪˈliːvə
bevor
ˈbiːvə
carpet-weaver
ˈkɑːpɪtˌwiːvə
diva
ˈdiːvə
fever
ˈfiːvə
Geneva
dʒɪˈniːvə
kiva
ˈkiːvə
lever
ˈliːvə
Neva
ˈniːvə
receiver
rɪˈsiːvə
retriever
rɪˈtriːvə
riva
ˈriːvə
Shiva
ˈʃiːvə
Siva
ˈsiːvə
transceiver
trænˈsiːvə
viva
ˈviːvə
viver
ˈviːvə
weaver
ˈwiːvə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WEEVER

weensy
weeny
weeny-bopper
weep
weeper
weephole
weepie
weepier
weepies
weepiest
weepily
weepiness
weeping
weeping ivy
weeping willow
weepingly
weepy
weevil
weevilled
weevily

WORDS THAT END LIKE WEEVER

Cheever
clever
ever
first ever
forever
greater weever
however
howsoever
lesser weever
never
peever
screever
sever
sleever
whatever
whatsoever
whenever
wherever
whichever
whoever

Synonyms and antonyms of weever in the English dictionary of synonyms

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鲈鱼
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weever
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weever
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weever
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Weever
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weever
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আমরা কি
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weever
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Selamanya
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Petermännchen
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weever
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weever
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Translator English - Javanese

Wenehne
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weever
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weever
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कधीकधी
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Translator English - Turkish

Biz daima
70 millions of speakers

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tracina
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weever
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Weever
40 millions of speakers

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Drac
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Μεγαλοδράκαινα
15 millions of speakers
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pieterman
14 millions of speakers
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weever
10 millions of speakers
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weever
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of weever

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WEEVER»

The term «weever» is regularly used and occupies the 98.698 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WEEVER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «weever» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «weever» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about weever

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEEVER»

Discover the use of weever in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to weever and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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John Weever Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut and Newest Fashion 1599
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
R. B. McKerrow, 2009
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Sheba's Daughters: Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen ...
Exploring how the depiction of otherness or alterity during the Middle Ages became problematic in the aesthetics of the Romance epics written during the centuries of the Crusades, this book offers a vital contribution to the growing ...
Jacqueline de Weever, 2013
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Chaucer Name Dictionary: A Guide to Astrological, Biblical, ...
A Guide to Astrological, Biblical, Historical, Literary, and Mythological Names in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Jacqueline de Weever. Caedmon, Edwin, Hilda, Aidan, and Cuthbert. De Weever lists only the last, and her apparatus tells me that ...
Jacqueline de Weever, 2014
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Marston, Rivalry, Rapprochement, and Jonson
The preference given by Weever to Marston; the contrast between the gratifyingly -sponsored poet and the professional playwright; the relative application of merit: all align with the play. Perhaps we can best account for the correlation between ...
Mr Charles Cathcart, 2013
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The Shakespeare Game, Or, The Mystery of the Great Phoenix
Moreover, relatively recently F. Huntley and E. Honigmann 28 proposed John Weever as a potential author of the first Parnassus play (“Pilgrimage to Parnassus”). The name “Weever” coincides with the name of the biggest river in Cheshire, ...
Ilya Gililov, 2003
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Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England
Weever reprints this proclamation in full as justification for the recuperative efforts that underlie Ancient Funerall Monuments itself (52). Yet in 1631 it was possible to imagine a return of such iconoclastic practices, Weever writes, as Puritans ...
Jennifer Summit, 2008
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Representing Religious Pluralization in Early Modern Europe
32 When Weever calls the subject of his Mirror of Martyrs the “first trew Oldcastle,” 33 he means to ex- ploit a weakness in Shakespeare – a vulnerability to sectarian critique that Shakespeare himself acknowledged – as a way not simply to ...
Andreas Höfele, 2007
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Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries
(1576–1632) poet, antiquarian John Weever was born in Landshire, England. Little is known about his early life or his family, ex- cept that a wealthy uncle provided him with the money necessary for his education. He studied at Queen's  ...
Alan Hager, 2009
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Shakespeare: The Lost Years
In short, the interval between 1598 (when the epigrams were 'ready made' for the second last time) and the autumn of 1599 (when the final copy was prepared) gave Weever the opportunity to add a few new epigrams to weeks v-vii, and then  ...
E. A. J. Honigmann, 1998
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Shakespeare Only
When Weever calls the subject of his Mirror of Martyrs the “first true Oldcastle,”he means to exploit the vulnerability of Shakespeare to sectarian critique as a way not simply to imitate Shakespeare but to rival and outdo him.14 What Weever ...
Jeffrey Knapp, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WEEVER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term weever is used in the context of the following news items.
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Weever signs partnership with Xerox
Weever Apps CEO Steve McBride. The firm, a startup darling of Hamilton that optimizes websites for mobile application, has landed a partnership deal with ... «Hamilton Spectator, Feb 15»
2
VIDEO: Woman stung by Weever fish on Falmouth beach airlifted to …
A holidaymaker on a Cornish beach had to be airlifted to hospital after being stung by a Weever fish. The 20-year-old woman passed out when she suffered an ... «Western Morning News, Jul 14»
3
South Coast alert over weever fish stings
"While painful, weever fish stings can usually be treated with basic first aid unless someone is showing signs of a major allergic reaction," he said. «BBC News, Jul 14»
4
U.S. patent has Weever Apps thinking bigger
It's 22 pages long, 11,200 words, more than three years in the making and, for Hamilton's Weever Apps, a newly achieved United States patent is just the ... «Hamilton Spectator, Jan 14»
5
Thousands of UK holidaymakers stung by the country's most …
Weevers have always been a hazard in the South-West but this year, people have been stung as far afield as Hastings on the South Coast and Scarborough in ... «Daily Mail, Aug 11»
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Venomous weever fish beach warning by RNLI lifeguards
Beachgoers in Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion are being warned about a rise in the number of people being stung by the venomous weever fish. «BBC News, Jul 11»
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Venomous weever fish lurking off Irish coast
The weever is a small fish that is found under the sand on Irish coasts. It usually lives beyond the tide line but with the waters low for the next few days people ... «Belfast Telegraph, Aug 10»
8
Warning on weever fish stings
Should a bather step on a weever fish then the pain is excruciating as the spines ... According to John Leech, the Weever fish spends most of the time buried ... «Irish Health, Aug 10»
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Dozens of swimmers poisoned by weever fish after warm weather …
British holidaymakers have been warned to beware the innocent-looking but dangerous weever fish after at least 30 beachgoers were poisoned in a week. «Daily Mail, Aug 10»
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What to do if you get stung by a Weever fish
Weever fish are about 15cm long and have venomous spines along the dorsal fin. The pain from the sting is described as excruciating, turning the foot red and ... «BBC News, Jul 10»

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