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cloth
[ klawth, kloth ]
noun
- a fabric formed by weaving, felting, etc., from wool, hair, silk, flax, cotton, or other fiber, used for garments, upholstery, and many other items.
- a piece of such a fabric for a particular purpose:
an altar cloth.
- the particular attire of any profession, especially that of the clergy. Compare man of the cloth.
- the cloth, the clergy:
men of the cloth.
- Nautical.
- one of the lengths of canvas or duck of standard width sewn side by side to form a sail, awning, or tarpaulin.
- any of various pieces of canvas or duck for reinforcing certain areas of a sail.
- a number of sails taken as a whole.
- Obsolete. a garment; clothing.
adjective
- of or made of cloth:
She wore a cloth coat trimmed with fur.
cloth
/ °ì±ôɒθ /
noun
- a fabric formed by weaving, felting or knitting wool, cotton, etc
- ( as modifier )
a cloth bag
- a piece of such fabric used for a particular purpose, as for a dishcloth
- the cloth
- the clothes worn by a clergyman
- the clergy
- obsolete.clothing
- nautical any of the panels of a sail
- a piece of coloured fabric, used on the stage as scenery
- a garment in a traditional non-European style
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³¦±ô´Ç³Ù³ól¾±°ì±ð adjective
- ³Ü²Ôd±ð°ù·³¦±ô´Ç³Ù³ó noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of cloth1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of cloth1
Idioms and Phrases
see out of whole cloth ; sackcloth and ashes .Example Sentences
"If the funding isn't available they are going to have to cut their cloth accordingly, so you might not have the frequency of services that people want and expect."
Then, there are rare Indo-Portuguese embroideries and some Haji Rumals - embroidered religious cloth once exported to Indonesia and parts of the Arab world as a headdress for men.
It includes sand and permeable cloth topped with a hybrid carpet of cool-season grass grown in Lake Moses, Wash., trucked to Inglewood, then rolled out in strips four feet wide and 45 feet long.
“We played our best baseball at the end of the year, and I felt like that was when we were really close and everybody was pulling from the same cloth,†veteran utilityman Chris Taylor said.
Those killed included nine children and four women, the residents said, sending the AP photos of the bodies draped in white cloth as they were lined in the mass grave.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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