adj
Meaning 1
Made of cotton.
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adj
Made of cotton.
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Usage: not-comparable
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name
The name of several settlements around the world
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name
The name of several settlements around the world
A village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0645).
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name
A habitational surname from Old English.
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name
A surname from Hebrew.
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noun
A fibrous substance:
A soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs, especially the substance around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium.
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noun
A fibrous substance:
Any similar soft, fibrous, white substance of fine hairs, of any origin.
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noun
A plant source:
A plant of genus Gossypium, used as a source of such fiber.
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noun
A plant source:
Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
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noun
A manufactured product of such a substance:
Textiles made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: business, manufacturing, textiles
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noun
A manufactured product of such a substance:
An item of clothing made from such textiles.
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Usage: countable, usually
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noun
A manufactured product of such a substance:
A small piece of cotton used as a filter when drawing up a drug into a syringe.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
Qualifier: recreational drugs
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noun
A manufactured product of such a substance:
Thread of such fiber.
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noun
A manufactured product of such a substance:
A wick of a candle.
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Usage: archaic, uncountable, usually
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noun
A liking.
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Usage: no-plural
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Synonyms: shine
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verb
To provide with cotton.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To provide with cotton.
To supply with a cotton wick.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To provide with cotton.
To fill with a wad of cotton.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To provide with cotton.
To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: agriculture, business, horticulture, lifestyle
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verb
To provide with cotton.
To cover walls with fabric.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To provide with cotton.
To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )
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Usage: transitive
Qualifier: tar and cotton
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verb
To make or become cottonlike.
To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To make or become cottonlike.
To develop a porous, cottony texture.
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verb
To make or become cottonlike.
To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To make or become cottonlike.
To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.
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verb
To rub or burnish with cotton.
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verb
To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.
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noun
fabric woven from cotton fibers
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Broader terms: fabric, cloth, material, textile
Narrower terms: gauze, gauze bandage
noun
thread made of cotton fibers
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Broader terms: thread, yarn
Narrower terms: lisle, lisle thread
noun
erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
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Synonyms: cotton plant
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Broader terms: shrub, bush
Narrower terms: tree cotton, Gossypium arboreum, sea island cotton, Gossypium barbadense, Levant cotton, Gossypium herbaceum, upland cotton, Gossypium hirsutum, Peruvian cotton, Gossypium peruvianum, Egyptian cotton, wild cotton, Arizona wild cotton, Gossypium thurberi
noun
soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
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Synonyms: cotton fiber, cotton wool
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Broader terms: plant fiber, plant fibre
Narrower terms: absorbent cotton, long-staple cotton, short-staple cotton
verb
take a liking to
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Broader terms: like
History
From Middle English cotoun, from Anglo-Norman cotun, Old French coton, from (Genoese) Old Italian cotone, from Arabic قُطُن (quṭun), from Hebrew כֻּתֹּנֶת (kuttṓnĕṯ).
From Old English cottūn (“cottage farmstead”), from cot (“cottage”) + tūn (“homestead”).
From Hebrew קָתָן (katan, “small”).
First use appears c. the 1560s, either from Welsh cydun, cytun (“agree, coincide”) (cyduno, cytuno), from cyd, cyt + un (“one”), literally “to be at one with”, or by metaphor with the textile, as cotton blended well with other textiles, notably wool in hat-making.
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