Cloth

/klɒθ/ · noun

Meaning

(countable, uncountable) A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable, uncountable) A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically.
2. Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.
3. (countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
4. (figurative) Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
5. (figurative) Appearance; seeming.
6. A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
7. (idiomatic, with definite article) The priesthood.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: (not always differentiated) fabric, material (fabric sense), textile; see also Thesaurus:fabric

In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally.

“It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth.[…]”

There were other types of looms for producing various specialised types of cloth, for example fustians and velvets, but there is not space here to discuss these.

One day he came, as I thought accidentally, to dinner. My huſband was very much engaged in buſineſs, and quitted the room ſoon after the cloth was removed.

The first room the people enter was formerly the Presence Chamber, which is hung completely with black, and at the r-end a cloth of estate, with a chair of estate standing upon the Haut-place under the state.

The stole is a long scarf-like cloth that hangs around the neck, over the shoulders and down the front of bishops and priests [generally, two-four inches across].

Wipe the surface with a cloth dampened with mineral spirits in order to remove the sanding dust, then brush on a full coat of varnish.

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Related Words

Word Forms

• cloths
• clothes
• cloath
• clath
• clathe
• claith

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