made or constructed by interlacing threads or strips of material
or other elements into a whole; "woven fabrics"; "woven
baskets"; "the incidents woven into the story"; "folk songs
woven into a symphony" artifact made by weaving or felting or
knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric
in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth
originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off
enough material for a dress" a beginning from which an
enterprise is launched; "he uses other people's ideas as a
springboard for his own"; "reality provides the jumping-off
point for his illusions"; "the point of departure of
international comparison cannot be an institution but must be
the function it carries out" things needed for doing or making
something; "writing materials"; "useful teaching materials"
information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or
reworked into a finished form; "the archives provided rich
material for a definitive biography" a person judged suitabl