name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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jacquard
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noun
Meaning 2
Fabric woven on a Jacquard loom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- The White House has jacquard drapes in the East Room.
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noun
Meaning 3
Fabric resembling a jacquard, but woven by a different process.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A Jacquard loom.
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Usage: countable
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noun
Meaning 5
a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Jacquard loom
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Broader terms: loom
noun
Meaning 6
a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom
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Broader terms: fabric, cloth, material, textile
noun
Meaning 7
French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Joseph M. Jacquard, Joseph Marie Jacquard
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Broader terms: inventor, discoverer, artificer
History
Etymology
Compare Jaccard.
Eponym, from Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard loom.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: жака́рд (žakárd) — fabric woven on a Jacquard loom
- Catalan: jacquard — fabric woven on a Jacquard loom
- Chinese Mandarin: 提花織物 /提花织物 (tíhuāzhīwù) — fabric woven on a Jacquard loom
- Chinese Mandarin: 提花 (tíhuā) — fabric woven on a Jacquard loom
- Finnish: jakardikangas — fabric woven on a Jacquard loom
- Macedonian: жа́кард (žákard) — fabric woven on a Jacquard loom
- Polish: żakard — fabric woven on a Jacquard loom
- Bulgarian: жака́рд (žakárd) — fabric resembling a jacquard
- Catalan: jacquard — fabric resembling a jacquard
- Finnish: jakardikangas — fabric resembling a jacquard
- Macedonian: жа́кард (žákard) — fabric resembling a jacquard
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