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cotton

[ UK /kˈɒtən/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑtən, ˈkɔtən/ ]
NOUN
  1. soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
  2. fabric woven from cotton fibers
  3. erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
  4. thread made of cotton fibers
VERB
  1. take a liking to
    cotton to something

How To Use cotton In A Sentence

  • The brightly colored outfits may be made of either cotton or such dressy fabrics as velvet, satin, and lamé.
  • The scorched surface should be covered with this liniment and then with a layer of borated gauze or absorbent cotton, to protect from the air. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Owing to different structures of cotton fiber and chitin fiber, they have differentadsorbability to reactive dyestuffs.
  • Carolina in 1760, wrote in his _History of North Carolina_ that the women were the more industrious sex in this section, and made a great deal of cloth of their own cotton, wool, and flax. Woman's Life in Colonial Days
  • Wildlife Watching Supplies stock a wide range of materials, olive green or camouflage pattern, lightweight, medium and heavy weight, showerproofed polycotton and waterproof nylon.
  • In more traditional settings, people wear boubous, loose-fitting cotton tunics with large openings under the arms.
  • Without slave labour the plantations of sugar and cotton could not have been as rapidly developed.
  • Denim is identified as an "American cotton textile where the diagonal warp is a striped hickory cloth that was once associated with railroadmen's overalls, in which blue or black contrasting undyed white threads form the woven pattern. My God George Will is a bigger fashion snob than me! - dfi
  • Surrounded by cottonwoods and aspens and featuring a wooden footbridge and an abundance of regional flora and foliage, it's a place to meditate, contemplate, and relax.
  • Studies in the past showed that subsoiling clay soil in the spring does not improve cotton harvests.
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