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All Words Glossary
noun
- A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
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cotton
- The texture of a cloth.
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the smooth of an oriental silk cloth
- A framework or structure
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The internet is a of computers connected by routers
- the of our lives
noun
- (context, UK, and, AU, slang) A cigarette.
- (context, UK, slang) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
- (context, US, UK, AU, slang, pejorative) A male homosexual.
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Note: Sometimes used jocularly between homosexuals.
- (context, US, slang, pejorative) A jerk, an asshole.
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Why did you do that, you ?
- (context, UK, archaic) Term used in UK public schools for a younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
- (context, US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
- (context, US, technical) A pv cell that is no longer in use.
verb ( fags, fagging, fagged, fagged)
- (context, slang, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
- (context, UK, archaic) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in UK public schools.
noun
- A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs.
noun
- A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
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Quotations
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- It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with . — Shakespeare, King Lear, IV-vi
- A hat made of felt. — Thynne
- (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
verb
- (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. — Sir M. Hale
- (transitive) To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.
noun ( fibre, fibres outside US)
- (countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
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The microscope showed a single blue stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- (uncountable) Material in the form of fibers.
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The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough .
- (textiles) A material whose length is 1000 times its width or more.
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Please find use polyester for this shirt.
- Dietary fiber.
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Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber'.''
- Moral strength and resolve.
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The ordeal was a test of everyone's .
- (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
- Under this map, any two values in the of a given point on the circle differ by 2π
noun
- A lightweight synthetic fiber used as insulation in clothing
noun
- Anything that is used to fill something.
- The contents of a pie, etc.
- (context, dentistry) A piece of amalgam used to fill a cavity in a tooth.
verb
- (present participle of, fill)
adjective
- Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach
- a meal
noun
- (uncountable) A soft cloth material woven from wool, possibly combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
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With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.
- A washcloth.
noun
- (alternative spelling of, flannelette)
noun
- A plant of the genus Linum, esp. L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. Also known as linseed, especially when referring to the seeds.
- The fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown to make linen and related textiles.
adjective
- made of, or resembling, flax.
- (colour) of a pale yellowish brown colour; the colour of flax.
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noun
- (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
- (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached
- (countable) An insulating wooly garment. Ex.: Harriett likes to curl up on the fleece blanket, even when it's gravy time.
verb ( fleec, ing)
- con, Con or trick someone out of money.
noun
- A large number of birds, especially gathered together for the purpose of migration.
- A large number of sheep kept together
- a large number of people
- coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding
verb
- (transitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
- (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles
noun
- A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower
noun
- a thread, used to clean the area between the teeth
- (raw) silk fibres
- the fibres covering a corn cob
- Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.
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embroidery
- Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".
verb ( floss, es)
- To clean the area between the teeth using floss.
- (AAVE) To show off, especially by exhibiting one"s wealth or talent.
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2003, Vladimir Bogdanov, All Music Guide to Hip-Hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap and Hip-Hop, Backbeat Books, page 554:
- : As the label's name no doubt implies, these rappers aren't your typical crew, even if they still like to and represent their city.
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2003, Wang, Oliver, Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide, ECW Press, page 134:
- : "Ms. Jackson" is probably the most sensitive"and realistic"take on relationships to come out of hip-hop, while "Red Velvet" cautions would-be playas against pushing the envelope around "dirty boys" just waiting for a chance to add some gray flecks to that
fur.
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2007, Azie Faison, Agyei Tyehimba, Game Over: The Rise and Transformation of a Harlem Hustler, Simon and Schuster, page 69:
- : It's impossible to wealth without attracting envy.
noun
- A light-weight silk or cotton fabric, often with a printed pattern.
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1869, Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
- : The Empress and the little Grand Duchess wore simple suits of (or silk, I don't know which is proper,) with a small blue spot in it;
- A piece of clothing made with this fabric.
noun
- That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.
- Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column.
- A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
verb to frieze
- To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2.
verb
- To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk
adjective
- Containing the maximum possible amount of that which can fit in the space available.
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The jugs were to the point of overflowing.
- Complete; with nothing omitted.
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Our book gives treatment to the subject of angling.
- Total, entire.
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She had tattoos the length of her arms.
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He was prosecuted to the extent of the law.
- (informal) satisfied, especially in relation to eating.
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"I'm ", he said, pushing back from the table.
- Of a garment, of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
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She needed her clothing during her pregnancy.
- Having depth and body; rich.
proper noun ( surname=yes)
- An English surname derived from the name of a person who fulls cloth.
noun
- Pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, used since at least the time of :wikipedia:Shakespeare, Shakespeare. For this shift of meaning, compare bombast.
- A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
noun
- A tropical American tree, Chlorophora tinctoria or Maclura tinctoria, whose wood produces a yellow dye. Also called old fustic or fustoc.
- A European tree, Cotinus coggyria or Rhus cotinus, whose wood produces an orange dye. Also called young fustic or fustet.
- The wood of these trees.
- A yellow dye obtained from the wood of these trees.
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